A great day at BookCamp Toronto. Lack of PowerPoint and the opening of the Manulife LCBO in time for my session led to the first annual BookCamp/Kobo eBook-Q-and-A-and-Summer-Wine-Tasting-Extravaganza. Cheers to the volunteer sommeliers for their help and the bookcampers for being up for wine tasting before noon (as if there was any doubt!) Thanks too for some challenging questions, very helpful suggestions and substantial feedback. Hi to the slew of new Twitter friends. For those who have been asking, here are today's wine picks:

1. (the sparkling) Segura Viudas, Spain

2. (the white) Vineland Semi-Dry Riesling, Ontario

3. (the red) KWV Roodeberg (Bordeaux-style blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Merlot), South Africa

What should we do next year? ePub file quality + Northern Italy? EBook Pricing, Agency and the Wines of Spain and Portugal?

What happens when you kill a copy of Joy of Cooking? Seven years bad cooking luck? A ghostly visitation by Bombauer and Becker? Or is it more like breaking a bat during baseball - indication that you're swinging for the culinary fences.

This is the classic '62 edition. Eight recipes for tongue, none for tofu, fourteen for "[x] in aspic", two for sea turtles. It taught me to make cookies and roast a chicken. Old school cookery that celebrates "deep fat frying" and creamed everything. Even with a whole library of cookbooks, this one still gets pulled out weekly.