WHERE IN THE WORLD: THE COOKBOOK STORE'S GUIDE TO ETHNIC AND REGIONAL COOKING IN CANADA. Grange, Jennifer and Jan Marshall. Foreword by Barbara Caffery. Toronto, Methuen, 1987. 155pp, paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-458-80770-2. CIP Adult Reviewed by Margaret Montgomery Volume 16 Number 2 1988 March This book is intended to help people find the unusual ingredients they need in order to make the recipes from ethnic and regional cookbooks. The authors state that the inspiration for the writing of this book was their customers at the Cookbook Store in Toronto, who came in with questions regarding the utensils and ingredients mentioned in cookbooks. Grange and Marshall say that they had been enjoying an unusual hobby for years-the hobby of "aisling"; i.e. they would zip into a food shop, walk up and down the aisles, and note what unusual or exotic items were for sale. This hobby came to be an integral part of good service to the customers mentioned above. When they decided to compile this information in a book, Grange and Marshall added eight other Canadian cities to their home base of Toronto. Organized by city, the information includes sources for ingredients for Chinese and East Asian, Vietnamese, East and West Indian and Jewish recipes, and includes bakeries, delis, fish and meat markets and bulk food stores. There is a useful ten-page glossary of food items, a very brief list of sources for special kitchen equipment in the various cities, and some definitions of equipment terms such as cazuela. There is an index, of course. This is a good book to own if you live in Toronto: of the 129 pages in the "Cities" section of the book, 46 are devoted to Toronto. That leaves only 83 pages for the other eight cities. I read the Vancouver section carefully, since I do shop there for exactly this sort of thing. Even I can name several places not mentioned in the book—sources for Mexican and Greek ingredients, for example. I wonder if it is possible to do this topic justice on a country-wide basis. A book such as this would be useful if it were done by province or city. Of course, one could try mail orders, although there is no information about that under the various stores' names. I suggest that the authors add to the Toronto section, publish it separately, and then get going on books for Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and so forth. Margaret Montgomery, West Vernon Elementary School, Vernon, B.C.