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Cuisine Canada 2005 Culinary Book Awards Cuisine Canada is the first ever-national alliance of Canadian culinary professionals who share a common desire to encourage the development, use, and recognition of fine Canadian food and wine. Cuisine Canada is about culinary awareness and national pride. Cuisine Canada is about opportunity. The top English-language cookbook award went to Lucy Waverman and James Chatto for A Matter of Taste: Inspired Seasonal Menus with Wines and Spirits to Match. Two of Toronto s best food writers have combined forces to present contemporary menus for almost every imaginable occasion(her efforts) enhanced by inspired suggestions for accompanying wines and spirits(his efforts). We heartily recommend the salmon spring rolls with balsamic dipping sauce. Hardcover, 368 pp, $50.00. Second prize in the English-language cookbook category went to Rose Reisman for Weekday Wonders: Healthy Light Meals for Everyday, a book that will take the stress out of dinner. Healthy time saving meals with suggestions for a month of menus, as well as make-a-head tips for every recipe. Rose's flair for palate pleasing flavour will make this a favourite in the kitchen. Acclaimed authors Margaret MacMillan, Marjorie Harris and Anne L. Desjardins collaborated with Clarkson and Ralston Saul on Canada's House: Rideau Hall and the Invention of the Canadian Home. The book, which reveals contemporary recipes reflecting the diversity and spirit of the nation, won top honours in the Canadian food culture English-language category. Gina Mallet's Last Chance to Eat: The Fate of Taste in a Fast-Food World. took gold for the English award in the special interest food and beverage book category. It is not just you -- apples, eggs, tomatoes , indeed many of our most common foods, do not taste the same anymore. Through the memory filter of English food after the second world war, the former theatre critic examines how we veered off onto the road to bland. Hardcover, 384 pp, $34.99. Geoff Heinricks's A Fool and Forty Acres: Conjuring a vineyard three thousand miles from Burgundy won second prize in the English special interest food and beverage book category. Occasionally dry(the historical bits),often seductive(the bits about grafting), this tale of a fledgling vineyard in Ontario’s Prince Edward county is a must read for anyone who has thought of chucking city life for farming. Hardcover, 275pp, $34.99. Back to top

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