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 his popular food blog, RockRecipes.com. Called “one of the best food blogs in Canada” by the National Post, Rock Recipes boasts more than half a million followers at home and in the US. His first book, Rock Recipes: The Best Food from my Newfoundland Kitchen (2014), was hugely successful selling over 10,000 copies within months of its release and Rock Recipes 2 (2015), is an unwavering follow-up on the brink of the same sales target. Parsons lives in St. John’s, NL.