Cuisine Canada Scene

Culture Days – Sharing our Culinary Heritage

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

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 [...]

Google Recipe Search

Will Google Recipe Search Help or Hurt Us? Written by Charmian Christie Google has added a new search function, Google Recipe Search, that allows people to locate highly targeted recipes using a wide range of parameters. Want chicken curry without cardamom? Just click a few buttons. Got a time limit? Set that too. And don’t [...]

Media Appearances: Paperwork and Pre-Interviews

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 [...]

Visiting a Media Outlet

Promoting your message, business, product or cookbook on radio or television? While it’s exciting to know you’ll reach a large audience, the pressure to talk live can be daunting. Over the last dozen years or so I have made hundreds of visits to media outlets both in my home base of Edmonton and in other [...]