One of the most unique cookbooks coming out this September 2009, is not your average cookbook. Kitchen Scraps by Pierre Lamielle is the sort of cookbook where easy-to-follow recipes are accompanied by hilarious illustrations of provocative chickens and babushka-clad grandmothers and where mutant beef monsters compete for ultimate burger supremacy.For cookbook author and illustrator Pierre Lamielle, his illustrated food column at the Calgary Herald’s Swerve magazine is where it all began. The column combined Pierre’s knack for offbeat writing and irreverent illustrations with some fantastic recipes. As a B.C. native, Pierre took design and illustration courses at Capilano College, and after graduation, he worked for both the Vancouver Sun and the Province as a feature designer. He then moved to Calgary to work at Swerve magazine, where his ideas for Kitchen Scraps bloomed. But he needed more formal culinary training, so he enrolled in the French Culinary Institute in New York City. Kitchen Scraps combines Pierre’s wild imagination and illustrations with comforting recipes that don’t come from a can.

Check out more of Pierre’s artistic talents and his Kitchen Scraps blog at http://kitchenscraps.ca/. and look for his illustration on the cover of City Palate Calgary for their September/October issue!