Mushroom Botanical is a print made from an original mixed media painting with water-colour and pigment by Carolyn Gavin. Reminiscent of Vintage Botanical ink drawings, this is a contemporary version in a whimsical yet sophisticated style. A stunning cover appealing to the foodie, the nature buff or anyone who loves mushrooms, food and life itself.  

• Size: 6 x 9"
• 150 lined sheets / 300 pages
• Printed with vegetable-based ink
• 100% post-consumer recycled paper
• Designed by Carolyn Gavin
• Made in Canada

Celebrating women? Cheers to that! These cocktail recipes are inspired by some of the world's most amazing ladies.

Sixty of the world's coolest and most influential women are the inspiration for this refreshing and fun collection of drink recipes that are sure to bring extra zest to your cocktail shaker. Free the Tipple pays tribute to a brilliant range of diverse women from the 20th century to today who have made waves in entertainment, the arts, politics, fashion, literature, sports, and science, including Frida Kahlo, Rihanna, Serena Williams, Virginia Woolf, Yoko Ono, Zaha Hadid, Marlene Dietrich, Zadie Smith, and more. Each double-page spread features a recipe crafted to reflect its namesake's personality, style, legacy, or what she liked to drink herself. This ranges from The Gloria Steinem, which uses a complex liquor with a radical twist, to The Beyoncé, made, of course, with lemonade. The cocktails are simple to make, kitchen-tested, and incorporate easy-to find ingredients. Snappy, informative biographies, illustrated with newly-commissioned portraits, offer revealing insights into the women's lives. This highly original guide to delicious beverages is a perfect gift for those in your life who encourage and inspire you.

Author Jennifer Croll

illustrated by Kelly Shami

Learn all there is to know about the fascinating world of wild mushrooms and other fungi!

Throughout the centuries, people all over the world have been foraging wild mushrooms and fungi for food. It can also be an exciting and rewarding hobby, with hundreds of different species to discover! 

This beautifully illustrated guide contains everything you need to help you on your next foraging adventure. Here’s what you can expect:

   • Insightful information you need to identify over 450 species of fungi from all around the world
   • Clear photographs of each kind of mushroom and its cross-sections are accompanied by annotations and descriptions, along with scale illustrations and identification charts
   • Learn about the different anatomical sections and features of fungi, then categorize and identify your own foraging finds through extensive, but easy-to-use, visual ID guides
   • Key information on habitat, fruiting, and which types of mushrooms are poisonous and which are edible. 

This mushroom foraging book is packed with vital information that will help you identify the exact types of mushrooms you are looking for when you’re out foraging. You’ll learn how to identify the caps, stems and gills, which all have different physical characteristics like shape and texture, and color.

From the Neobulgaria pura and the Mitrula paludosa, discover newly-found fungi species and complex ones which can only be viewed microscopically. The detailed illustrations and identification charts will help you name the mushrooms you find or hope to search for. 

Mushrooms is the perfect book for fungi enthusiasts, amateurs, experts or anyone wanting to learn more about fungi.

Author DK

Celebrate Canadian cocktail history and artistry with A Field Guide to Canadian Cocktails, a collection of over 100 recipes inspired by a bounty of homegrown ingredients and spirits that will appeal to armchair bartenders and professionals alike.

From the Yukon’s Sour Toe Shot to a Prairie Caesar to New Brunswick’s Fiddlehead Martini, each beautifully crafted recipe—comprising updated classics, signature drinks from Canada’s top bartenders and the authors’ own creations—features quintessentially Canadian ingredients and cultural references, blending to create a libatious and entertaining journey from sea to shining sea.
Also featured are syrup and infusion recipes, tips and tricks, technique and equipment guides, as well as travel narratives and recommendations from the authors’ cross-country road trips.
Authors Victoria Walsh and Scott McCallum have dedicated countless hours, not to mention gas mileage, foraging, travelling and experimenting, in order to instill their own brand of northern spirit into the existing cocktail canon, and to add to the proud tradition of ensuring Canadian drinks, history and lore, in all their glory, are served at the global bar. 

ISBN: 9780449016633

How to Understand and Improve Every Relationship in Your Life

This astrological relationship guide is indispensable for dealing with everyone from friends and family to bosses and coworkers. 

Steer your life by the stars and make all your interpersonal relationships shine. This beautifully designed, horoscope-driven handbook will teach you to bring energy to your relationships and divine the true nature of personalities using the power of astrology. Do you know how to live peacefully with a Taurus? Discuss money issues with a Cancer? Improve your sex life with a Scorpio? With chapters arranged by astrological sign, The Astrology of You and Me will give you help and guidance for every imaginable star-crossed situation, and the beautiful design features astrology-inspired illustrations throughout.

ISBN: 9781683690429

Mastering the Art of Cooking with Weed [A Cookbook]

Based on the popular Munchies and Viceland television series Bong Appétit, this cannabis cookbook features 65 "high"-end recipes for sweet and savory dishes as well as cocktails.

Inspired by the popular MUNCHIES and Viceland television series, Bong Appétit is the Joy of Cooking for a new generation interested in making serious, sophisticated food--with weed. Bong Appétit breaks down the science of infusing (oils, butters, milks, alcohol, and more) with cannabis, and offers recipes ranging from weed butter-basted chicken to weed chimichurri to weed brownie sundaes. Along the way, the book hits on marijuana politics, dosage, and pairing strains and flavors, and has tips from MUNCHIES vast network of friends and experts, including "Bong Appétit" stars Ry Prichard and Vanessa Lavorato.

How To Get The Most From Your Food

 The James Beard Foundation’s comprehensive book on full-use cooking—how to use all the food you buy and avoid food waste—featuring innovative recipes and tips from chefs across the country.

The average American household throws away more than $1,500 worth of food every year. Featuring 100 recipes from chefs such as Rick Bayless, Elizabeth Falkner, Bryant Terry, and Katie Button, Waste Not shows readers how to turn ingredients that often end up in the trash into delicious dishes and exciting takes on tried-and-true recipes.

A realistic approach to survival training and bushcraft from one of the country’s top survival skills teachers — learn the techniques and confidence to fend for yourself in any situation.

The Practical Skills You Need for the Great Outdoors

You’re hiking in the wilderness with a backpack full of gear and a phone to summon help, should you need it. But if you can’t get a signal and you lose your pack … what then?

In challenging situations, a survival mindset – including being prepared, having confidence in your own abilities and being adaptable – can be just as much of a life-saver as the most expensive bits of equipment. Add to this Joe O’Leary’s sound advice and knowledge of survival and bushcraft techniques, with some practical experience, and you will have the confidence to tackle whatever comes your way.

Written in clear, easy-to-follow text, The Wilderness Survival Guide focuses on the realities of using wilderness survival techniques not just in a genuine “survival situation” but also to enhance any outdoor experience, from a hike in the country to camping in the wild.

Read this book and you’ll learn how to:

• Use bushcraft tools to build a shelter and improvise equipment
• Light a warming fi re (and keep it lit) in bad conditions
• Find safe water to drink
• Hunt and forage for wild food – and cook what you catch or find

An enchanting collection of magical cocktails, punches and teas that function both as delicious recipes and as effective spells, written by witch YouTube influencer, Anaïs Alexandre.

Taste real magic!

In Potions, Elixirs & Brews, Anaïs Alexandre draws on her eclectic craft, harnessing influences from Wiccan and rootwork practices, to share a collection of delicious potions for the modern witch. From potent cocktails, to restorative elixirs and captivating brews, this book of drinkable spells offers the powers of time-honoured wisdom in truly delectable form. Each potion is accompanied by a simple ritual to supercharge its effectiveness, whether as a solitary witch or with your coven.

Sip on a subtle love potion, draw monetary fortune your way with a lucky prosperi-tea, or spread friendship vibes with a warming party punch; as the wheel of the year turns, Potions, Elixirs & Brews helps you discover your own craft through the magic of mixology.

For women who enjoy hiking, camping, backpacking, and other outdoor recreation or those inspired by Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, this is the definitive guide to being a woman in the great outdoors. This friendly handbook covers the matters of most concern to women, from “feminine functions” in the wilderness to how to deal with condescending men, as well as the basics of wilderness survival tailored to women’s unique needs. It includes gear lists in addition to advice for camp setup, fire building, food and water, safety, weather, and navigation.

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This transporting and lushly photographed book evokes the pleasure of eating outdoors, with accessible recipes for everyday meals with friends and family. Emma Frisch’s encouraging and clear instructions make fireside cooking feel effortless and downright fun. She includes menu planners, handy illustrations, equipment lists, and tips showing how to prepare for any trip, even if it’s just to the local park on a weeknight. Featuring more than seventy adaptable recipes, Emma’s book pairs practical information with evocative photography and passionate writing about the connections we all make when we’re sharing a meal around the campfire.

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Pitch a tent and unroll your sleeping bag in some of the most secluded campsites on Earth. 

With tales from the trail, arresting images, and helpful instruction, this wild guide reveals what calls people to camp: under all the gear, it’s as much about living off the grid as it is about the thrill of staying alive. Whether you love car camping with kids, rock climbing with friends, or roughing it solo in a lean-to, you’ll find there’s always somewhere new to explore—even if it's just in your backyard.

Inside you'll find:

• Interviews with expert campers, adventurers, basecampers, and alpinists
• Hundreds of captivating photographs of sites and set-ups around the world
• How-tos that cover choosing a tent, building a fire, making coffee, and more

Banff is a resort town in the province of Alberta, located within Banff National Park. The peaks of Mt. Rundle and Mt. Cascade, part of the Rocky Mountains, dominate its skyline. On Banff Avenue, the main thoroughfare, boutiques and restaurants mix with château-style hotels and souvenir shops. The surrounding 6,500 square kilometres of parkland are home to wildlife including elk, wolves and grizzly bears . 

Lots to do and see in Winter and Summer

• Size: 6 x 9"
• 150 lined sheets / 300 pages
• Printed with vegetable-based ink
• 100% post-consumer recycled paper
• Designed by Carolyn Gavin
• Made in Canada

Show your love for Halifax with the Halifax Journal. 

Such a cool place to call home or visit with lots to do and see in both Winter and Summer months. 

• Size: 6 x 9"
• 150 lined sheets / 300 pages
• Printed with vegetable-based ink
• 100% post-consumer recycled paper
• Designed by Carolyn Gavin
• Made in Canada

• Size: 6 x 9"
• 150 lined sheets / 300 pages
• Printed with vegetable-based ink
• 100% post-consumer recycled paper
• Designed by Carolyn Gavin
• Made in Canada

Change happens slowly and then all at once. The past year has exposed our vulnerabilities, but it has also solidified our commitment to a better world.

In this anniversary issue, BESIDE presents stories of committed individuals and caring communities whose actions are bearing fruit in transformation. Because good

Get away from it all— but keep eating well! 

When it comes time to head out on the trail with a tent in hand, or to hit the road for a rural weekend at the cabin or lake house, there’s no reason to compromise on great food. It’s easy to whip up delicious meals with the recipes in this book: in addition to supply lists and prep work that can be done ahead of time, the instructions include options for cooking both outdoors over a roaring fire or indoors near a cozy hearth. Recipes include:

• Hasselback Sweet Potatoes
• Dutch Oven Lasagna
• Carne Asada Street Tacos
• Peach and Blueberry Cobbler

The Camp & Cabin Cookbook is a feast for the eyes, with gorgeous photographs for every dish, from breakfast to snacks to dinner. Don’t leave home without it!

Life is beautiful… yes and let’s try and celebrate that as much as we can. It's short but can be ever so sweet. Keeping a journal and reflecting on your life, everyday or once in a while, is something that can be treasured forever.

• Size: 6 x 9"
• 150 lined sheets / 300 pages
• Printed with vegetable-based ink
• 100% post-consumer recycled paper
• Designed by Carolyn Gavin
• Made in Canada