The Outdoor Kitchen: Live-Fire Cooking from the Grill
Anyone can learn to cook outside over a fire with this dazzling guide to setting up an outdoor kitchen, featuring practical tips and 80 recipes from the award-winning chef of Hartwood in Tulum, Mexico. Chef Eric Werner cooks nearly every dish served at Hartwood over wood fire, without gas or electricity, and when he's not at the restaurant, he's making delicious meals for his family, grilled in his own backyard outdoor kitchen. In this book, Werner shares the secrets to and recipes for simple, unrestricted, foolproof outdoor cooking in a way that reimagines the way you cook at home.
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Creative Garden Photography
Whether you’re photographing tiny flowers or grand landscapes, wandering outside in the garden or bringing the garden indoors, your photography will be enhanced using the many techniques in Creative Garden Photography. Includes a huge range of photographic styles and technical information that can be applied to almost any kind of photography. In this book, you will learn to use an incredible range of tools from one of the acknowledged modern masters of photography.
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Take it Outside
A beautifully photographed guide to converting your outdoor space into an enviable oasis, whether you have a backyard, brownstone patio, or three-season porch. Mel Brasier, Garrett Magee, and James DeSantis do more than plant, mulch, and manicure a garden; they look at the space just as interior designers do a room, considering the aesthetics and the way people live in it. Now they show you how to apply familiar interior design principles to your outdoors.
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Train Beyond the Mountains: Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer
A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travellers past and present. As the Rocky Mountaineer winds over trestles and through tunnels, each mile of track uncovers stories of dynamite and discovery, surveyors and schemers, explorers and visionaries, and the people who helped to build Canada against the odds of geography and politics.
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Seared: The Ultimate Guide to Barbecuing Meat
Seared is a one-stop shop for recipes and practical advice that will help you get the most from cooking meat on your barbecue, beginning with the science of why we need to cook different cuts in different ways and the physics of how fire works. Essential information about setting up your barbecue, sourcing your fuel and lighting your fire, and setting up your grill, with troubleshooting tips throughout.
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Best Road Trips: Canadian Rockies
Itineraries for classic road trips plus other lesser-known drives with advice to pick the routes that suit your interests and needs. Delightful diversions to see the Canadian Rockies' highlights and hidden gems along the way. Icefield Parkway, Radium Hot Springs, Emerald Lake, Marble Canyon, Banff National Park, Spiral Tunnels, Yoho National Park, Lake Louise, Kootenay ake, Kimberley Alpine Resort and more.
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Woodworking Projects for your Garden and Porch
Give your garden a unique, do-it-yourself charm with practical and decorative woodworking projects. Do you have a bare, uninspired garden or porch? Instead of overhauling and reconstructing the entire design, simply transform it with any of this book's twenty-six essential and practical woodworking projects that will provide your home with a dash of DIY, rustic charm. These easy, fun, and attractive wood creations are accompanied by clear, step-by-step instructions and are divided into projects for planting, growing, socializing, and relaxing, as well as fun items for children.
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The Wild Game Smoker and Grill Cookbook
Transform your hunting trips into incredible meals with this can't-miss collection of grilling and smoking recipes for every type of wild game.
Packed full of delicious dishes that feature grilled and smoked meats, this unique cookbook is a must-have for any hunter. Whether you're using a classic charcoal grill, handy electric smoker, versatile wood pellet smoker or even a backyard smokehouse, Kindi Lantz provides everything from heat-control techniques and smoker tricks to perfect wood chip pairings and the best rubs, marinades and sauces.
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Zen in the Garden: The Japanese Art of Peaceful Gardening
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected. Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? Do the trees really ‘talk’ to one another? What are the black birds saying today? And is there a mindful way to deal with an aphid infestation?From rising early to walk barefoot on the grass each morning, to afternoons and evenings spent sipping tea in her gazebo or watching fireflies as she recalls her childhood in Japan, in Zen in the Garden Sakamoto shares observations from a life spent in contemplation—and cultivation—of nature.
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Drawing: Learn to Draw Outdoor Scenes Step-by-Step
Learn to render a variety of beautiful landscape subjects in graphite pencil. Landscapes provides you with the necessary knowledge to create your own landscape drawings from preliminary sketch to the completed work. Discover methods of shading, ways of manipulating drawing tools to produce specific textures, and a wealth of beautiful landscapes to both copy and admire. Also included are simple techniques for developing common landscape elements—such as trees, clouds, rocks, and water—and how to apply a variety of methods to convey a sense of realism.
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Outdoor Survival Skills
Outdoor Survival Skills has taught generations of wilderness adventurers how to survive in nature without expensive purchased equipment, instead drawing on knowledge of the land and carefully tested techniques, many of them ancient, for finding or creating shelter, fire, tools, water, and plant and animal foods. Anecdotes from the author's lifetime of experience provide thrilling examples of the skills and attitudes that ensure survival outdoors. In this newest edition, updated text is accompanied by color photos to help both veteran and novice outdoor explorers embrace their survival skills.
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Flavors of the Southeast Asian Grill
Sharing barbecue dishes from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and Indonesia, Leela Punyaratabandhu inspires readers with a deep dive into the flavor profile and spices of the region. She teaches you how to set up your own smoker, cook over an open flame or grill on the equipment you already have in your backyard. Leela provides mouthwatering recipes such as Chicken Satay with Coriander and Cinnamon, Malaysian Grilled Chicken Wings, and Thai Grilled Sticky Rice, as well as recipes for cooking bone-in meats, skewered meats, and even vegetable side dishes and flavorful sauces.
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🎨 Art Exhibit: Niitistapi Pi’kssíí
Come see our travelling art exhibit, with us until July 21.
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Niitsitapi Pi’kssíí (Blackfoot Fancy Beings) is an exhibition featuring artworks that depict animals, or fancy beings, significant to Blackfoot culture by two contemporary Blackfoot artists, Ryan Jason Allen Willert and Kalum Teke Dan. Blackfoot teachings about these animals are a large part of the exhibition, which would not have been possible if not for the generous support of Elder Camille (Pablo) Russell. To develop an understanding of balance and harmony in nature and the cycles of renewal that affect seasons of life, it is essential to observe the natural world and its animal cohabitants. This fact is well known in Blackfoot culture. As explained by Blackfoot author Betty Bastien, the knowledge of the Siksikaitsitapi (or, the Blackfoot Nation) is organized according to thousands of years of observation and participatory relationship with the natural world.1 This knowledge highlights a reciprocal relationship with the land and the creatures that occupy it; four-legged fur-bearing beings, birds, fish, and humans alike share a kinship with the land, the sky, and all the environments we inhabit. Niitsitapi Pi’kssíí (Blackfoot Fancy Beings) emphasizes how Blackfoot language, storytelling, and knowledge-sharing has intrinsic value when it comes to understanding the natural world.
This exhibition was curated by Ashley Slemming and Diana Frost, and it has been organized by the Alberta Society of Artists in partnership with the Indigenous social enterprise Colouring it Forward for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition program.
1 Betty Bastien, “I: Context,” in Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004), 39.
🎫 The Alberta Library Card
If you’ve finished your course at SAIT but would still like to use the library, you might want to get yourself a free TAL (The Alberta Library) card. To get one, you need to be a member of the Calgary Public Library (also free) or one of the other Alberta libraries that participates in the TAL scheme. Just ask them for a card!
Once you have your TAL card, you can bring it, along with some photo ID, to the information desk, and we’ll set you up with an account in our library system. Access to many of our e-resources is limited to current students, but you will be able to borrow up to 5 print books at a time.