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 …

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, …

There’s less than a month left to submit nominations to the 2010 Canadian Culinary Book Awards. Deadline for submissions is February 16, 2010.
Hosted by Cuisine Canada and the University of Guelph, these annual awards recognize excellence and creativity in food and beverage writing and publishing. Not only do these awards promote our Canadian culinary food culture, they celebrate Canadian authors and publishers.
Are you eligible?

Books must be written by a Canadian author who is either a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
Books must be published by a Canadian publisher or …

We need your help. See the black bar above the blog post? One of the pages is entitled “Links”. Nice idea, but there’s a problem. It’s empty.  Here’s where you come in.
If you’re a Cuisine Canada member and have a website or blog (or both) we’d love to provide a link (or links) to you under Member Links.
Using the nifty form below, the whole process should take less than a minute. To send us your link information just fill in the form and:

Make the subject line “Cuisine Canada Scene Links”.
In …

Cuisine Canada Scene wishes all Cuisine Canada members and their families a safe and happy holiday season.
We’re taking a break but will be back in January, 2010 with articles about Canadian ingredients, marketing ideas, profiles, culinary trends and more.
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We wanted to put a shout out for a friend of Cuisine Canada.  Jeff Stewart, and his Creepy Crawly Cooking Company will be one of the pitches on this Wednesday’s Dragon’s Den, 8pm, on CBC.  You can watch the show online on the Dragon’s Den Website anytime after Wednesday.
Jeff has really expanded his culinary repertoire, not just as a professor in the Hospitality and Tourism department at Niagara College, but also as the President of Creepy Crawly Cooking, a catering and educational company that focuses on consuming creepy crawly creatures.  They’ve been …

On Friday, November 6, 2009, Cuisine Canada and The University of Guelph hosted the 12th annual Canadian Culinary Book Awards at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, Ontario.
Some of Canada’s top food professionals, chosen as judges, spent the summer testing recipes and evaluating culinary books from more than 50 entered. The winners are:
Canadian Culinary Landmarks Hall of Fame
For the first time, in 2009, Cuisine Canada and The University of Guelph inaugurated a Hall of Fame award. The award is given to honour outstanding achievements in the field of culinary writing.
Culinary …

The Canadian Culinary Book Awards promise lots of excitement on Friday, November 6th. But once the speeches are over and the reception food gobbled, things really start cooking. Literally.
We have a baker’s dozen of celebrity chefs lined up at the cooking stage. Some of Canada’s best known culinary stars will be sharing their secret ingredients while chef students from Liaison College, Georgian College, Stratford Chefs School and George Brown College prepare a signature dish.
As if that wasn’t enough? At each cooking presentation, six lucky people will win a place at …

Don’t touch that dial!
On Sunday, November 1st, three Cuisine Canada members will be hitting the airwaves.  Short-listed author, Rose Murray, nominated for A Taste of Canada, will be talking to Kitchener foodie and radio host, Andrew Coppolino, on “The Food Show.”  Micheline Mongrain-Dontigny, organizer of the French-language awards, will be calling in from Quebec while Fiona Lucas, incoming Chair of the Canadian Culinary Book Awards, also joins the discussion. Together they’ll promote our national awards to this local audience.
“The Food Show” is broadcast on Rogers 570 News each Sunday, from …

We’re used to posting when Cuisine Canada members win things, like an award. But this time a member has lost something. Her mailing list. The note below is from member Dana McCauley. Maybe together we can help her rebuild her database? She writes:
Hi Charmian,
As you may have already heard, our mailing list for Topline Trends was lost when our mail manager company went out of business with out giving us any notice.  We are currently asking all our contacts to help us rebuild our mailing list by signing up for …