About the Author
Barry C. Parsons
One wife, two kids, one mortgage, lifelong food obsessive, recipe blogger, and food photographer: that’s how Rock Recipes creator Barry C. Parsons describes himself on RockRecipes.com. Called “one of the best food blogs in Canada” by the National Post, and ranked by Feedspot.com as the number one food blog in Canada, RockRecipes.com boasts over 650,000 social media followers from around the world, with millions of online visitors monthly. The popularity of his recipes and cooking philosophy has led to four incredibly successful cookbooks: Rock Recipes, Rock Recipes 2, Rock Recipes Cookies, and Rock Recipes Christmas. Parsons cooks & writes from his home in St. John’s, NL.
Our last In Review of the year includes holiday baking (+ cookie puns), Pantone colour inspo, surrealism (on brand for the holidays), and more! Thank you, All Lit Up reader, for following along with our bookish exploits and adventures all year and we hope you'll be back in 2020. ... Read more
Get those spatulas ready for day SIX of Season's Readings with two book picks for the kitchen-savvy angels who are always ready to whip up a sweet treat or deliver on a delicious meal when you need it most.
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The reason for the holiday season? Piping hot cookies! Serving up some shockin' good recipes from recipe blogger and food photographer Barry C. Parsons, this Test Kitchen's holy text is the just-in-time-for-the-holidays Rock Recipes Cookies (Breakwater Books). Scroll ... Read more
Picture this: you're tasked with making a holiday treat for your office or party, but you know there are some dietary-restricted folks and
Team ALU was at it again – someone let us into a kitchen with a new cookbook! This time we’re getting ourselves into the holiday spirit with the latest in the Rock Recipes series: Rock Recipes Christmas by Barry C. Parsons (Breakwater Books). While the holiday for which ... Read more
With the fall season about to kick off, we’re making our new TBR lists and checking them twice (wait, I think that’s for a different season). One new title that made it to the top of all of our lists here at ALU HQ was Rock Recipes 2 by Barry C. Parsons. We all love to ... Read more
You would think after coming back to work after a stomach-expanding holiday break the last thing we would want to do is prepare and eat a big meal together, but what can we say, we love to eat! (Seriously, we have a whole treat table in our office.) We’re in a unique position ... Read more
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