This year, Taste Canada received 150 submissions (96 books and 54 food blogs) and awarded 22 winners with a Gold or Silver Award.
You can read about my experience of the Red Carpet and Reception here.
The 2016 Taste Canada Award recipients:
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Culinary Narratives / Les Narrations Culinaires
ENGLISH
GOLD: Sir John’s Table: The Culinary Life and Times of Canada’s First Prime Minister by Lindy Mechefske
SILVER: Chicken in the Mango Tree: Food and Life in a Thai-Khmer Village by Jeffrey Alford
FRENCH:
GOLD: L’essential de Chartier by François Chartier
SILVER: L’Épicerie : Le plaisir de faire les bons choix by Sylvie Dô
General Cookbooks / Livres de Cuisine Générale
ENGLISH
GOLD: Canadian Living: The Ultimate Cookbook by Canadian Living Test Kitchen
SILVER: Seven Spoons: My Favorite Recipes for Any and Every Day by Tara O’Brady
FRENCH:
GOLD: C’est l’hiver! by Josée Robitaille
SILVER: Cuisiner pour une semaine, un mois, un an by Coup de Pouce, Claudine St-Germain
Regional/Cultural Cookbooks / Livres de Cuisine Régionale et Culturelle
ENGLISH
GOLD: A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World by Susan Musgrave
SILVER: A Spicy Touch: Family Favourites from Noorbanu Nimji’s Kitchen by Noorbanu Nimji and Karen Anderson
FRENCH:
GOLD: La cuisine d’Helena : 80 recettes portugaises pour ensoleiller votre table by Helena Loureiro
SILVER: Fine cuisine italienne des Abruzzes by Maria Di Domenico
Single-Subject Cookbooks / Livres de Cuisine Sujet Unique
ENGLISH
GOLD: The Ocean Wise Cookbook 2: More Seafood Recipes That Are Good for the Planet by Jane Mundy
SILVER: A Field Guide to Canadian Cocktails by Victoria Walsh and Scott McCallum
FRENCH:
GOLD: La cuisine réfléchie : Bien manger sans gaspiller by Daniel Vézina
SILVER: Mon premier livre de recettes by Ricardo
Health and Special Diet Cookbooks/Santé et Diète Particulière
ENGLISH
GOLD: The UnDiet Cookbook: 130 Gluten-Free Recipes for a Healthy and Awesome Life by Meghan Telpner
SILVER: Scared Wheatless: Delicious Gluten-Free Recipes That Won’t Make You Lose Your Mind by Mary Jo Eustace
FRENCH:
GOLD: Nutrition Sportive : 21 jours de menus by Stéphanie Côté et Philippe Grand
SILVER: Naturellement sucré : 100 desserts à base de sucres naturels by Eliane Michaud
Food Blog / Blogue Culinaire
ENGLISH
GOLD: In Pursuit of More, Shira McDermott, www.inpursuitofmore.com
FRENCH:
GOLD: The Green Life, Sophie Bourdon, www.thegreenlife.ca
Taste Canada Cooks the Books
Taste Canada Cooks the Books is a cooking competition that invites Canadian culinary students from across the nation to compete for the title of Canada’s Best New Student Chefs. The teams are paired with a culinary author and given the challenge to recreate a recipe from that author’s cookbook, along with their own signature garnish. This year, the students competed at The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair on November 12 and 13 and a panel of notable culinary experts judged the competition. The winners are presented with prizes, a letter of recommendation and a trophy to display at their school.
This year’s Taste Canada Cooks the Books winning team was from Durham College who cooked a Peanut Butter Sriracha Burger from Rock Recipes 2 by Barry Parsons (one of the cookbooks I cook regularly from!)
2016 Taste Canada Awards Hall of Fame Inductees
Julian Armstrong
For over fifty years, Armstrong has tirelessly explored the cuisine of her adopted province, Quebec. For The Montreal Gazette and The Montreal Star she traveled into every region to record its recipes and food stories. Her two cookbooks – A Taste of Quebec (1990, updated 2001) and Made in Quebec: A Culinary Journey (2014) – explained and celebrated her province’s cuisine to Canada and the rest of the world. An award-winning food journalist, she mentored many other food writers. Julian Armstrong is a true Quebec / Canadian food ambassador.
James Barber
James Barber (born 1923; died 2007) was a Vancouver engineer who started food writing in his late forties. The first of his twelve cookbooks was Ginger Tea Makes Friends in 1971, which encouraged kitchen confidence with simple techniques and fresh, easy-to-find British Columbian ingredients. He became best known as “The Urban Peasant,” the name of his 1991 to 2002 CBC cooking show, which demonstrated unpretentious, flavourful dishes. A witty and genial culinary writer and television personality, Barber strove to demystify recipes so that anyone could produce tasty meals from local ingredients – an approach that presaged the 100-mile diet.
Congratulations again to all of this year’s Taste Canada Awards nominees and winners! Although I already own some of these, there are definitely more titles for me to add to my Cookbook Wishlist now!
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