National Post (National Edition)
Celeb chefs winners of Taste Canada Awards
TORONTO • Celebrity chefs Vikram Vij and Lynn Crawford are among the top winners of the Taste Canada Awards for culinary writing.
Vij wins gold in “culinary narrative” for his book Vij, while silver went to Fitzhenry & Whiteside’s 9000 Years of Wine, by Rod Phillips.
Crawford tops the general cookbook category for Farm to Chef, while silver went to The Simple Bites Kitchen by Aimee Wimbush-bourque.
The annual celebration brings together writers, publishers, chefs, restaurateurs, farmers and cookbook fans to promote culinary writing in French and English.
Booknet Canada found 1.4 million English-language books in the “cooking” subject category were sold in 2017, valued at $47.4 million.
The hall of fame awards went to Graham Kerr for The Galloping Gourmet while a posthumous award went to Constance Hart, considered the first Jewish person in Canada to write a cookbook.
Here’s a look at the English-language winners:
REGIONAL/CULTURAL COOKBOOKS
Gold: Feast: Recipes and Stories from a Canadian Road Trip by Lindsay Anderson and Dana Vanveller (Appetite by Random House)
Silver: The Okanagan Table: The Art of Everyday Home Cooking by Rod Butters (Figure 1)
SINGLE-SUBJECT COOKBOOKS
Gold: All the Sweet Things: Baked Goods and Stories from the Kitchen of Sweetsugarbean by Renee Kohlman (Touchwood Editions)
Silver: Cooking with Cocktails by Kristy Gardner (Countryman Press)
HEALTH AND SPECIAL DIET COOKBOOKS
Gold: Yum & Yummer: Ridiculously Tasty Recipes That’ll Blow Your Mind, But Not Your Diet! by Greta Podleski (Author/one Spoon Media Inc.)
Silver: The First Mess Cookbook by Laura Wright (Penguin Canada)
GENERAL FOOD BLOGS
Gold: Rhubarb & Cod, by Susan Keefe (rhubarbandcod. com) Silver: The Lemon Apron, by Jennifer Emilson (thelemonapron.com)
HEALTH & SPECIAL DIET BLOGS
Gold: Oh She Glows, by Angela Liddon (www.ohsheglows. com) Silver: Joyous Health, by Joy Mccarthy (joyoushealth.com)