Where We Ate

<b>&#147;You've heard (and probably asked) this question a million times: &#145;Where did you go for dinner?&#146;&#148;&#160;A love letter to 150 Canadian restaurants and the stories and people behind them&#151;from pre-Confederation to present day from Victoria to St. John&#146;s&#151;here&#146;s where we ate.</b><br><br>What is Canadian cuisine? While cookbook authors and historians have spent decades trying to answer this question Canadian food isn&#146;t summed up by one iconic dish but rather a huge range of meals flavours and cultural influences. It&#146;s about the people who make our food who cook it and serve it to us at lunch counters in ornate dining rooms and through take-out windows.<br><br>In her debut book restaurant critic and journalist Gabby Peyton has penned&#160;a celebration of 150 restaurants that have left a mark on the way Canada eats&#151;whether they&#146;re serving California rolls foie gras poutine hand-cut beef tartare or b&#225;nh&#160;m&#236;&#151;and brings us from one decade to the next showing how our dining trends evolved from beef consomm&#233; at Auberge Saint-Gabriel in 1754 to nori-covered hot dogs at Japadog.<br><br>Organized chronologically from pre-Confederation to the present day you'll find<br><ul><li>Charming entertaining essays and transportive photos and menus from archival collections that give cultural economic and political context</li></ul><ul><li>Many restaurants still open for business so you can plan your visits and bring history alive on the plate</li><li>15 recipes inspired or contributed by some of the featured restaurants for those wishing to truly feel like they&#146;re dining in</li></ul><br>A joyous representation of the incredible diversity of restaurants people and stories that make up our Canadian dining history <i>Where We Ate</i> is as much of a timeless classic as the restaurants it features.