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Culture Days – Sharing our Culinary Heritage

Monday, May 30, 2011

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Think Culture Days is just for the singers, dancers and artists? Think again. All across the country, innovative food professionals will be sharing their skills, culinary passion and food heritage during Culture Days. What is Culture Days? Culture Days is a coast to coast to coast celebration of arts and culture which takes place every [...]

Cookbook Karma

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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Between Foodgawker, Tastespotting, Photograzing and This Is Why You’re Fat, you’d think there are more than enough food photo sites on the internet to satisfy everyone. But a recently launched food photo gallery has an added feature cookbook authors might like. With an emphasis “on recently published cookbooks and images associated with dishes made from [...]

Case Study: Complete Book of Knife Skills

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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So what do you do when you are asked to write a book on a topic that’s demonstration-based and has been done again and again? Jeffrey Eliot faced this dilemma when asked to write the Complete Book of Knife Skills for Zwilling J.A. Henckles. ”I had every knife skills book on the market,” Eliot says. “And they [...]

What’s Happening — April 2011

Monday, April 4, 2011

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It’s a new month. Fresh starts. New projects. Exciting news? We’ll be posting the list of Canadian Culinary Book Award nominees soon. In the meantime, tell us what you’re up to this month — or even what you did last month. We’re flexible. Cooking demonstrations, workshops, publications, book signings, media appearances, website news, product launches… [...]

Beating Procrastination

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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According to a recent MailChimp survey based on more than 9 BILLION emails, most of us read and answer work emails from home. If you’re a freelancer, as many food writers are, email alone threatens to eliminate the already blurry line between work and personal time. Add in smart phones, laptops and portable devices such [...]

Recipe Code Plugins to the Rescue

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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Wondering what the picture is of? It’s an example of the code Google now requires for their Recipe Search feature. If you think it looks scary, you’re not alone. When Dianne Jacobs wrote about the issue on Will Write for Food, more than 100 comments poured in. The curious may read about it here. In [...]

French Canadian Spice Question – Can you help?

Monday, March 7, 2011

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Pat Crocker, a long-time Cuisine Canada member, and cookbook author emailed with a question. “My friend, Dr. Arthur Tucker, a research professor at Delaware State University, specializing in the chemistry and identification of herbs and author of The Big Book of Herbs and others, recently asked me about Mignonette Pepper, of which I have no knowledge.” [...]

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