2013 Taste Canada Awards Winners
English-Language Books / Les livres langue anglaise
Culinary Narratives
The award is given to the best food- or beverage-related narrative written by a Canadian author (or authors). This category may include books exploring culinary history, politics, social awareness, memoir or biography, all relating to food, and may include some representative recipes. In this category, however, recipes (if any) will not be tested. In most cases, the overall style of the book will be narrative, but reference texts will be included in this category as well. The topic or theme need not be Canadian.
Gold
Canada’s Favourite Recipes. Murray, Rose and Baird, Elizabeth. Whitecap Books.
General Cookbooks
The award is given to the best cookbook, written by a Canadian author (or authors), which covers a general range of topics, offering a variety of options to the Canadian cook. Single-subject and Health and Special Diet-related cookbooks are not included in this category, but in the Single-Subject Cookbooks category or Health and Special Diet category.
Gold
Chef Michael Smith’s Kitchen. Michael Smith. Penguin Canada.
Regional / Cultural Cookbooks
The award is given to the best cookbook written by a Canadian author (or authors), which best exemplifies the cooking of a specific terroir or region in Canada, or, the cooking of a specific ethnic group (in terms of race, nationality, or religious heritage) in Canada or around the world.
Gold
Burma: Rivers of Flavor. Duguid, Naomi. Random House of Canada.
Single-Subject Cookbooks
The award is given to the best cookbook written by a Canadian author (or authors), which features a single topic in the culinary world. This category may include books about a specific food, beverage, cooking method, meal and/or target a very specific audience, such as cookbooks written by professional chefs for professional chefs. This category does not include regional/cultural cooking or books related to health and special diets.
Gold
The Book of Kale: The Easy-to-Grow Superfood; 80+ Recipes. Hanna, Sharon.
Les livres langue française / French-Language Books
Les Narrations Culinaires
Le lauréat sera décerné au meilleur livre sur l’alimentation et/ou la boisson écrit sous forme de narration, écrit par un ou des auteurs canadiens et publié par un éditeur canadien. Cette catégorie peut comprendre des livres explorant l’histoire culinaire, la politique alimentaire, la conscience sociale, un mémoire ou une biographie et, peut comprendre des recettes appuyant l’ouvrage. Dans la plupart des cas, le style du livre est narratif mais peut inclure aussi des livres de références. Le sujet n’a pas besoin d’être nécessairement canadien.
Or
Toqué! Les artisans d’une gastronomie québécoise. Laprise, Normand. Les Éditions du passage.
Livres de Cuisine Sujet Unique
Le lauréat sera décerné au meilleur livre de cuisine, écrit par un ou des auteurs canadiens et publié par un éditeur canadien, qui traite d’un sujet unique dans le monde culinaire canadien.
Or
Cabane à sucre Au pied de Cochon: Le sirop d’erable. Picard, Martin. Restaurant Au pied de cochon.
Taste Canada / CBC People’s Choice Award
The Taste Canada/CBC People’s Choice Award was run as a contest at cbc.ca/books for three weeks, and offered the public a chance to vote for their favourite book on the Taste Canada shortlist. Thousands of entries later, The Vegetarian’s Complete Quinoa Cookbook by Mairlyn Smith, ed. and the Ontario Home Economics Association was announced as the winner.
Or
À la di Stasio 3. Josée Di Stasio. Flammarion Québec.