2020 Taste Canada Virtual Awards Ceremony
In 2020, 86 cookbooks entered the competition, representing authors from 7 provinces. A shortlist announced in June narrowed the competition to a maximum of 5 entries per category. The 20 gold and silver award winners were revealed at the Taste Canada Awards Virtual Ceremony, streamed on Facebook Live, from the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, co-hosted by Irene Matys and Martin Juneau.
We also celebrated two well-deserving Canadian food personalities, with the Culinary Historians of Canada, by inducting them into the 2020 Hall of Fame. The first 2020 inductee was the late Norene Gilletz. Gilletz, known as “Canada’s queen of kosher cuisine,” died recently (age 79) still writing and blogging about Canadian food.
The second inductee for 2020 was Stephen Yan. Yan was an ambassador of Chinese cooking and was the first Chinese-Canadian chef to host a cooking show, CBC’s wildly popular “Wok with Yan” (1978 to 1995).
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Congratulations to all the winning authors. Taste Canada is proud to support and celebrate the work of Canadian culinary writers!
The virtual celebrations will be remembered for years to come and in case you missed it, or want to re-live all the excitement, simply click the green button above.
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