The Kindle version of Bestia: Italian Recipes Created in the Heart of L.A. (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) by Ori Menashe and his wife Genevieve Gergis, owners of the restaurant of the same name is currently $2.99 on Amazon.com but not on .ca
This book is a bit restaurant chef-y with a number of recipes that require previous prep of other recipes. Not the book you turn to at 5:30 for dinner at six but everything I've tried has been very good and generally worth the effort. When my Facebook cooking group cooked from this book, there were a lot of raves for the salad dressings. I'm a fan of the pizzas.
So as not to leave out the other coast, Estella (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) by Ignacio Mattos and Gabe Ulla of the NYC bistro of the same name is also $2.99. Sadly, not in Canada, either. I have the hardback of this book. It's beautifully photographed and has a lot of interesting ingredient combinations that I've used more for inspiration than actually making the exact recipe. Flipping through now, I'm thinking I should change that.
Edited to add one more:
Kindle versions of Josef Centeno's Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) are $2.99 on both .com and .ca I like that book a lot, especially the Bäco breads!
