Barbara-jo's Books To Cooks Inc

Barbara-Jo McIntosh is an award-winning bookseller, supporter of all things culinary, an author and owner of Barbara-Jo's Books to Cooks, a fixture on the Vancouver food and literary scenes. More than just a cookbook store, Barbara-Jo’s is “a library dedicated to the culinary arts. We cover everything from the history of food to growing food, butchering animals and making beer and wine — everything to do with food and drink.”

Barbara-Jo was inspired to open Books to Cooks by a cookbook shop in London's Notting Hill. “I read about this cookbook shop which had a kitchen in it and then I went and saw it and researched it and other stores and created a model I thought would work in my community,” she explains.