
	It might be a book from an Australian chef but it resonates with the lively markets of Chinatowns throughout the world, including ours here in Canada. This is an excellent book to cut your teeth on to prepare Chinese dishes at home, to expand your existing repertoire of Asian creations, or to perfect your stir-frying, steaming, and even braising techniques because the ingredient lists and instructions are short and to the point, not to mention that the recipes produce delicious tasting results...		The attraction is the cover, no doubt about it. You are standing amongst throngs of cookbooks and at this time of year, shoppers, staring haphazardly into space silently reiterating a gift list in your head when it suddenly appears in a suspended animation of sorts. It starts with one and once you focus you see that there are a whole slew of them, perched on the shelf vying for your attention. But where do you start? How do you simply choose one? 3 dish limit has sifted through them all (well nearly) and compiled a list of those that stood out from the crowd, worthy of both giving and receiving...

	I confess - I am attracted to the cookbooks of celebrity chefs! There is however, one very important caveat - these celebrity chefs have to realize I am in my kitchen and not on the line in their restaurant. So they create dishes with ingredients I can find (albeit some with a bit of extra effort), that are doable because they contain clear and concise instructions, and that instill a little or even better, a lot of knowledge a long the way. The latest cookbook, Eat this Book from the chef of food network fame, Tyler Florence, is one such cookbook...		There is no "all Canadian" epicurean magazine on this list, yet. You will, however, find a strong showing from Australia and the UK because there is something about their content that just makes them so darn good and worth exploring. It is the style and tone of the writing, the culinary information, the focus on chefs and their community efforts, and most importantly the appeal and instructional ease of their recipes with the tantalizing food photos that puts them on my list...