First presented in 2009 to Elizabeth Driver for her comprehensive and groundbreaking book Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825–1949, this award recognizes authors who have produced a stellar culinary book or a series of culinary books that have made a lasting impact upon Canadian cuisine.
Past Recipients
- 2010 – A Century of Canadian Homecooking: 1900 Through the ’90s by Carol Ferguson and Margaret Fraser (Prentice Hall, Scarborough, 1992)
- 2010 — Kate Aitken’s Canadian Cookbook, by Kate Aitken (The Montreal Standard, Montreal, 1945)
- 2009 – Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825–1949 by Elizabeth Driver (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2009)
