I opened the ffwd weekly today to plan my Stampede weekend and was surprised and delighted to also see two glowing reviews of Fifth House Books: Spaghetti Western: How My Father Brought Italian Food to the West and How the West Was Written: The Life and Times of James H. Gray - both published last Fall.Of Spaghetti Western they say, "Cioni's loving memoir captures a period in Calgary's history and tells the story of a warm, dynamic man who could be described as Calgary's first celebrity chef.
And of How the West Was Written, they say, "Brennan does a superb job of revealing Gray the man, and has uncovered much previously unknown material from archived correspondence, such as the story of how Canada's Bronfman family was displeased about Booze. Without a doubt, this will remain the definitive biography of a major Canadian popular historian.Happy Stampede!
