I once read about a food writer who got herself into some serious hot water for reviewing a restaurant in the New York Times when she had already contributed a positive blurb to the back of the same restaurant's chef's cookbook. So, in the interest of full disclosure, let me say that yes - EAT Magazine is quoted on the back of Angelo Prosperi-Porta's Flavours of Cooper's Cove Gueshouse. Here's what we said then: "Two hundred enticing 'real' recipes where the flavour of the food is not masked, but is enhanced with simple ingredients to maintain earthy, honest flavours." We stand by that.

In the new Touchwood softcover edition, Angelo Prospera-Porta invites you into the kitchen of his Sooke guesthouse and generously shares the recipes that have made his intimate cooking classes so popular. Don't miss his signature Sea Bread, using locally harvested edible seaweeds. For locals who are interested in more information on the Cooper's Cove cooking retreats, click here. 

Published by TouchWood Editions, 2010.