Interviews, like so many things in life, often involve paperwork. Before your appearance, the media outlet may require some preliminary information. As one friend always says, “Enquiring minds got to know!”
The amount of pre-interview information varies depending on the type and length of the interview and the media outlet. For some stations, your original news release or media letter along with a copy of your cookbook, recipes, restaurant menu, cooking class schedule or product may be all that’s required.
With radio interviews, especially for first-time guests, a pre-interview may be requested. …

Writer, photographer, award-winning author, Pat Crocker from Neustadt, ON is passionate about food, gardens and herbs. She loves her work as a culinary herbalist and asks, “In what other profession would one be encouraged to wander alone in gardens; grow and cook with herbs; write about these and other culinary wonders, and tell others about those pleasures?” Winner of the Herb Society of America’s Literary Excellence Award and Best in the World for her Juicing Bible (1998) and her Vegan Cook’s Bible (2009), Pat has nine published cookbooks to her …

Practical Gourmet | Small Plates for Sharing
Edited by Laurie Stempfle (Company’s Coming Publishing Limited, 2008)
Review written by Margaret Demerson
Entertaining can be fun, but at times it can also be a challenge. Maybe you’re looking for a recipe for Creme Fraiche. Wondering about Indonesian Sweet Soy Sauce? Curious about Dukkah? The answers to these plus a variety of fantastic recipes are combined in a new prize-winning cookbook and, as it says on the cover: “Sharing never tasted so good.”
Company’s Coming Publishing and Jean Pare are well known for their best-selling line …

Cuisine Canada member Pat Crocker recently won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Paris, France. Her recent book, The Vegan Cook’s Bible (Robert Rose) took top honours as the Best Vegetarian Cookbook in the World.
For Crocker, this is  her second big Gourmand win. Her book, The Juicing Bible,  also won Best in the World in 2000.
Awarded the Gertrude Foster Award for Excellence in Herbal Literature from the Herb Society of America in 2009 and a Gold Medal from Books for Better Living, Crocker seems to know the recipe for success.
When …

Julie Van Rosendaal is food writer, author, stylist and journalist. The food and nutrition columnist for CBC Radio One’s the Calgary Eyeopener, Julie contributes to the online cooking series, Good Bite,  co-hosts It’s Just Food on Viva Network and keeps readers updated on Dinner with Julie. She’s also the mastermind behind Blog Aid, a collaborative cookbook to raise funds for Haiti.
What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains?
Ice cream. I can’t not finish the container. Also anything topped with melty cheese.
Who or what got you interested in food?
My appetite got me interested. …

UPDATE:  According to Julie’s Twitter account, the book has raised more than $10,000 in its first few hours of existence.
Less than three weeks ago, Cuisine Canada member Julie Van Rosendaal sent an email out to the food writing community to see if there was interest in compiling a cookbook to raise funds for Haiti. There was. And today Blog Aid: Recipes for Haiti is available for purchase. The turn around time on this project is breath-taking. So is the passion behind it.
You can watch the project unfold on Julie’s blog, …

While enjoying the San Francisco Farmers’ Market in the Ferry Building this past fall, I happened upon a rare and exquisite shop, Culinaire. Specializing in culinary antiques that were designed for specific kitchen or table uses, the unique shop is filled with rare finds like the tools below.

Do you know what these delicate, silver-plated utensils were used for?
First Clue: They were not dessert servers. Although they may have been used at the dining room table, they were never associated with cakes, pies or other fine delicacies.
Second Clue: While they may …