Peaches

Rosario and her parents come to Canada as political refugees from Mexico. Rosario hates her heavily-accented English, but she breaks the language barrier to save a migrant farm worker's life.

In Saturn Peach, Lily Wang establishes a distinctive voice that is part heartbreak and part wise witness chronicling the strangeness of a technologized world. When asked to describe her book, Wang answered in her quintessential way, "There are things I never want to know but always know. Every day I live with them. Every day I live. I am like a young fruit. Like a peach, common, not the popular kind but oblate, saturn. I live and inside me this pale fruit, yellow and white. I take bites out of myself and share them with you. Maybe you taste like me. Maybe you hold this fruit and become a tree." If ever there were a book that disarmingly - and seemingly effortlessly - encouraged its reader to become a metaphor, then Saturn Peach is it.

This classic, award-winning cookbook offers an array of recipes, from the traditional to the inventive and unusual, for three of Canada's favourite summer fruits. Apples, Peaches & Pears features 125 recipes for a remarkable range of dishes including cakes, pies, puddings, salads, preserves and pickles. Along with the best traditional recipes--apple pie, peach ice cream, oven-baked pears--there are tempting new recipes--cranberry nut apple pie, baked peaches with almond slivers, and peach and red pepper relish, to name a few. Incorporating treasured family recipes gathered from across the country and extensively tested, Apples, Peaches & Pears is a favourite collection with cooks across Canada. After a tough international competition, Apples, Peaches & Pears received a 2002 World Gourmand Cookbook Award as an ingredient cookbook.