Just Add Shoyu is short-listed in the Canadian Culinary Culture category. It is a community-authored cookbook, sponsored by the Heritage Committee of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. Its creation and development involved more than 50 volunteers who contributed their time and expertise to work with the recipes and stories submitted by Japanese Canadians from across Canada. This [...]
Michele Genest is the author of the short-listed title, The Boreal Gourmet. Genest discovered cooking that celebrates northern ingredients at the Chocolate Claim kitchen in Whitehorse. Here, along with other transplanted cooks, she met cooks who brought their experience and travels to bear on the food that surrounded them. She has written about food and dining [...]
Ian Coutts is the author of the short-listed title Brew North. An eclectic writer, some of this several books include Titanic: The Last Great Images (with Robert Ballard), Backyard Birds (with Robert Bateman), and The Ultimate Guys’ Q and A (released in the United States as Do Nymphomaniacs Really Exist?). His writing has appeared in Toronto Life, Canadian Geographic, The Globe and Mail, and Quill and [...]
Ann Vanderhoof, author of the short-listed title The Spice Necklace, is a former Canadian magazine editor turned writer. With her husband, Steve, she cruises the Caribbean on their 42-foot sailboat, Receta, and writes about our adventures. Steve, a former magazine and book art director, takes the photos and is Receta’s official food taster. What was [...]
Carolyn Herriot is a passionate organic gardener, photographer, lecturer and a cook who loves to eat. After 20 years of operating her nursery, Carolyn continues to grow “Seeds of Victoria” at The Garden Path Centre in Victoria, British Columbia. She is also a regular contributor to GardenWise magazine and the author of two bestselling books – The [...]
Sarah Elton, author of the short-listed title Locavore, is a journalist and writer who focuses on food and agriculture, science and sustainability. She is the food columnist for CBC Radio’s Here & Now and writes regularly for publications across North America including The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, and TheAtlantic.com. Elton speaks regularly at universities, colleges, libraries and [...]
Amy Jo Ehman, author of the short-listed title Prairie Feast, grew up in Craik, Saskatchewan surrounded by big gardens and vast fields of wheat. She left the farm for university, studying first at the University of Saskatchewan then completing a BA in Journalism at the University of Regina. Today she is a freelance writer based in [...]
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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