Open Source Cookbook From Toronto Chefs

A group of chefs from Toronto have published an open source cookbook of their favourite recipes that you can try at home. You can view it online or download a PDF. You can also submit your own recipes.

BlogTO has more details.

"Food isn't like global economics or fucking toilet paper for that matter; one percent of the population shouldn't hoard all the food knowledge," reads the Foreword written by Nick Chen-Yin, former co-owner of Smoke Signals in Toronto. He came up with the idea for the cookbook, and did all the design for the online components.

"This cookbook is meant to be an open source toolkit that everyone and anyone can access during a time of heightened need," Chen-Yin continues. "There are recipes from chefs, line cooks, home cooks, mothers, fathers, nonnas, popo's and everyday joes."

As you might expect, there's a wide range of recipes, both in types of food and levels of difficulty and complexity. There are several that I would like to try, including a nice simple meatball and sauce meal and a veggie mac and cheese.

It's likely that this will be frequently updated, so check back on it every once in a while. They already made one change at my request - increasing the weight of the text in the recipes.