2013 Taste Canada Award 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
French Kids Eat Everything (And Yours Can Too). Le Billon, Karen. Harper Collins Publishers.
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.
Gold
Canada’s Favourite Recipes. Murray, Rose and Baird, Elizabeth. Whitecap Books.
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.
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.
Les livres langue française / French-Language Books
Livres de Cuisine Générale
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.
Gold
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.
Gold
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.
Gold
The Vegetarian’s Complete Quinoa Cookbook by Mairlyn Smith, ed. and the Ontario Home Economics Association
