BESTSELLING AUTHOR: Chef Robertson's first book was a big success for a first-time author, going into three printings so far and selling 15,000 copies in North America. This book has a different take on his cuisine -- more family- oriented comfort food -- and makes a great complement to the first volume which focused more on what he teaches at his popular Vancouver cooking school.

ACCESSIBLE AND TESTED RECIPES: Like the recipes in the first book, these are tried and tested, refined and perfected. While easy, they are filled with creativity and wonderful flavor combinations. This is really delicious food!

SOCIAL: To David, cooking is a social activity and the book focuses on the enjoyment of cooking for, and with, family and friends.

VARIETY: Like his cooking classes the recipes in the book are highly varied in style and substance. The styles range from Thai, French, Italian, Mexican, Spanish, Swedish, Moroccan, Japanese, Greek and more. It includes wide variety of seafoods, meats and poultry, and and wonderfully flavourful plant-based dishes. Cooks will love that Gather has many of the desserts that The Dirty Apron deli is famous for, and in addition includes instructions on how to make the recipes vegan or gluten-free.

GREAT PEOPLE: Not only is he a tremendously talented chef, David Robertson and his wife Sara, are great people. Known as two of the kindest people in the business, they devote a lot of their time volunteering with underprivileged kids to teach them the joy of cooking, of working with others and being of service to their community.