Whitecap Books to Publish Island Lake Cookbook

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Quite literally from around the world powder skiing aficionados flock to Island Lake Lodge. Over thirty feet of snow fall each winter and the unbroken snowfields in the 7000 wilderness acres surrounding the Lodge insure unparalleled skiing.

While the skiing initially attracts the guest, the experience of Island Lake Lodge brings them back year after year. Completely off the grid, accessible only by snow cat during the winter, the Lodge experience establishes a standard distinct from any other. As with all active pursuits, gathering for a meal at the end of the day fosters community and the opportunity to trade tales. At Island Lake Lodge the evening becomes far more. With a long standing reputation of hiring young innovative chefs providing them with the mandate to serve interesting and hearty meal to compliment the extensive wine cellar, dining for the thirty some guests becomes as important as the skiing.

Each winter the chefs of Island Lake Lodge create over one hundred individual menus for the just over thirty skiing guests. Pulling from the finest in local and regional ingredients, the meals served are un-equaled in the Kootenays.

The Lodge fosters relationships with suppliers, from Cinecott Farms to Hill’s specialty meat producers, to find, to prepare and to serve a meal as startling different as the ski terrain surrounding the Lodge.

The chefs profiled--past and present--each created a flair in the Lodge cuisine and a brought passion for their craft. Each moved on in their own way leaving a high mark for the following chefs to touch and to surpass.

The Island Lake Cookbook (Whitecap Books, Spring 2009) will celebrate this innovative tradition with a look back at the history of the Lodge, the philosophy of cooking, the thought going into each supplier relationship and the often almost whimsical approach to fine food by the chefs of the Lodge. Whitecap is a leading Canadian publisher of cookbooks receiving four international awards at the recent London Book Fair.

Island Lake Cookbook
Whitecap Books
By Keith Liggett
Photography by Henry Georgi
To be released Spring 2009