Whitewater Cooks: Pure, Simple and Real Creations from the Fresh Tracks Cafe

Great recipes from a celebrated resort.

Whitewater Resort in the Canadian Rockies is renowned for its spectacular scenery, deep snow and Fresh Tracks Café. Despite constant pleading from customers, recipes for dishes made famous there were as unattainable as snowflakes in July. Even the café staff was sworn to secrecy. Now, Whitewater Cooks opens the kitchen doors.

With this eagerly anticipated book, home cooks can re-create chef Shelley Adams'' signature dishes. Readers will enjoy over 70 recipes from the café''s selection of top sellers -- from warming soups to desserts -- indulging in such culinary favorites as:

• Whiskey-smoked salmon chowder
• Ymir curry bowl
• Whitewater veggie burger
• Runaway train wrap
• Peppercorn, brandy and gorgonzola sauce
• Crackle top snowy mountain cookies
• Whitewater brownies.

Whitewater Resort is internationally recognized for its alpine scenery and the fine quality of its food. Now home cooks everywhere can share its most celebrated dishes.

Shelley Adams, who attended the famous École de Cuisine La Varenne in Paris, spent 15 years as a caterer to the film industry. She and her family are owners of the Whitewater Resort in the Canadian Rockies where, for the past decade, she has been the creative director and manager of the Fresh Tracks Café.