ELENA opened in Montreal in 2018 as a restaurant with kindness, generosity and authenticity at its heart. JANICE TIEFENBACH is the executive chef of Elena and the co-owner of Gia Vin & Grill; STEPHANIE MERCIER VOYER is a writer whose work has appeared in Elle and enRoute magazine amongst many other publications; RYAN GRAY is the co-owner of Elena, Nora Gray and Gia Vin & Grill; MARLEY SNIATOWSKY is the co-owner of Elena and Gia Vin & Grill.
“The thing about the folks at Elena is, they know what’s up. The
food is phenom, the wine is bonkers and it’s the kind of
neighborhood resto you can really only dream of. To now be able to
recreate even a sliver of that Elena vibe at home through their
many delicious and highly cookable recipes is a blessing to all of
us. Expert salads, insane pizzas, perfect pasta and natty wine?
That’s. What’s. Up.”
—MOLLY BAZ, author Cook This Book
“Ryan and his team always take care of me with delicious bites and
fantastic wine whenever I’m in Montreal, so of course I will
endorse this book heartily to not risk endangering future bites or
wine intake.”
—AZIZ ANSARI
“Salad Pizza Wine empowers both aspiring and seasoned home cooks to
revisit Italian classics with a twist. From Tomato Tonnato (genius
in its simplicity) to the Mortadella, Artichokes, Pistachio pizza
(taking my favorite charcuterie board elements and throwing them on
a ‘za) nothing excites me more than new creative spins on the
familiar, and this wonderful book does just that.”
—ANTONI POROWSKI
“Salad, pizza, wine—I would say it’s impossible to find a better
combination. Hyper-seasonal but unfussy pies paired with bright and
crunchy salads, this is the food I want to eat all the time. It’s
food that feels fresh and fun. The next best thing to experiencing
the amazing vibe at Elena is to feel it channeled through these
colorful pages and be able to recreate it at home (with a bottle of
your favorite wine).”
—JESS DAMUCK, author Salad Freak
“A whole Elena cookbook just for me! But wait . . . now the rest of
the world will get to taste my go-to order of the Kale! Caesar! and
the Diavolo 2.0? A win-win for us all. From a small corner in
St-Henri comes this big, fresh and VIBRANT cookbook. The future
looks tasty.”
—MEREDITH ERICKSON, author Alpine Cooking
“Elena does everything so right. The ingredients are local,
seasonal and fresh, the naturally fermented pizzas and breads are
tender and delicious and the staff possess that magical
only-in-Montreal radiance and style. When I’m missing Montreal
extra badly, I know that this terrific cookbook will transport me
back to those delicious, abundant meals.”
—NATASHA PICKOWICZ, chef
“Salad Pizza Wine, which could easily be renamed Pasta Hoagies
Desserts, offers you a choose-your-own-adventure approach to
bringing Elena’s fun and delicious dishes home to prepare in any
order or combination you see fit!”
—KATIE PARLA, author Food of the Italian Islands
“The entire team at Elena are real beauties. If you aren’t
Canadian, that’s slang for ‘exceptional people who create
exceptional places.’”
—RIAD NASR, chef and co-owner Frenchette and Le Rock
“When I gaze north to Canada I see a special magic. A rare and
guiding light. Elena has yielded that light many times over. Not
just in food and wine but also in kindness. And all with a special
sleight of hand that comes from the heart—which is really the only
thing that matters in cooking and hospitality.”
—JOE BEDDIA, author Pizza Camp
“Salad Pizza Wine has the same spirit of camaraderie, kindness and
family that fills the four walls of Elena and its menu IRL …
Accessible and adaptable to taste and cooking comfort levels, the
dishes are meant to be mixed, matched and modified without
fuss.”
—Elle Canada
“Salad Pizza Wine is a colorful, friendly book by friends, about
friends, and for friends. A sort of mission statement and bible of
beloved Montreal restaurant Elena, this volume completely
embodies the feeling of being in a fun, Italian-inspired eatery
where wine flows freely and wood-fired pizzas draft by you every
minute or two […] More than that, though, this book is a treatise
on living a good life, on making something real, fun, and tasty
with your friends and sharing it with the world. I know that sounds
corny, but, honestly, that’s what makes a great restaurant for me.
The homies behind Elena have turned that ethos into one of the
year’s most fun and colorful cookbooks.”
—Vice
“The 115-plus recipes include naturally leavened and yeasted
versions of blistered, thin-crust Neapolitan and rectangular,
Roman-style al taglio pizza, pasta and hoagies. And, as the
title hints, a generous number of salads and vegetable dishes […]
Salad Pizza Wine belongs to an especially practical category of
restaurant cookbook, written with the home cook in mind. Building
blocks such as the spiced Dante vinegar can be a marinade on its
own or mixed with olive oil for a vinaigrette. The same dough used
to make Neapolitan pizza can be shaped into hoagie buns, which you
could then stuff with fried chicken and Kale! Caesar! salad,
meatballs or eggplant Parmesan.”
— Cookbook of the Week, National Post
"A boisterous cookbook that feels like you brought the
award-winning restaurant home."
—The Globe & Mail
"One of our favourite Canadian cookbooks of the year. Not only is
it loaded with 115–plus mix–and–match recipes, but everything about
it is fun, goofy and bloody delicious—just like the beloved pizza,
pasta and natty wine joint. Buy this for the ones who like to
moonlight as a pizzaiolo."
—EnRoute magazine
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