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Okanagan Food & Wine Writer’s Workshop 2010

With hundreds of world-class wineries, and increasingly home to a number of Canada’s best chefs, the Okanagan Valley is a top global food and wine destination. It’s also now host to the Okanagan Food & Wine Writers Workshop, based out of Penticton, British Columbia, a two-and-a-half-day workshop with professional development seminars open to writers of [...]

Congratulations to the Nation’s Table Winners

Long in the works, a national honour for the food sector has finally been awarded.  The Nation’s Table is the Governor General’s award for excellence in the food and culinary sector.  Founded by Jean-Daniel Lafond, the award intends to celebrate the leaders and innovators who best exemplify social values, innovation, and cultural impact that we [...]

Fighting Food Fraud

The naked eye can’t tell the difference between sturgeon caviar and roe from Mississippi paddlefish. But with the help of DNA technology developed at the University of Guelph (U of G) in Ontario, the US is hoping to clamp down on food fraud. Whether it’s inferior olive oil passed off as extra-virgin,  cow’s milk cheese [...]

Cuisine Canada Member Wins Best in the World

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 [...]

Blog Aid Raises Funds for Haiti

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. [...]

Send us your links

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 [...]

Happy Holidays

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. Photo © Madartists | Dreamstime.com