Mikaela Reuben’s cookbook all started with a road trip.

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“I gathered a few girlfriends, one was a photographer, one was a food stylist, and we spent the summer travelling from destination to destination throughout British Columbia,” she recalls of the trip that kicked off in 2019.

Their road trip took them to some of their favourite places in the province, including Hornby, Saltspring and Galiano islands, as well as Squamish and Whistler. When she looks at the book now, she recalls a “lot of laughter and a little confusion at times” during the process.

“I’m so proud of what we created,” she says.

It was a backward way of creating the compilation of eats, considering that she hadn’t yet decided which of the recipes she’s cooked up during her 10-plus years as a persona

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