 Cuisine
Canada 2006 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.
English-Language Culinary Books
Canadian Food Culture Category:
(for books that best illustrate Canada's
rich culinary heritage and food culture)
 Gold: Janice
Wong
Chow: From China to Canada: memories of food + family
Silver: Habeeb Salloum
Arab Cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead
Besides offering a great selection of traditional Middle Eastern
recipes, Habeeb Salloum (From the Land of Figs and Olives,
$29.95) documents a little-known chapter of Canada’s immigrant history
- the story of Saskatchewan’s Depression-era Syrian community. Colour
photos. Paper, 316 pp, $29.95.
Cookbook Category:
Gold: Michael and Anna Olson,
Anna and Michael Olson Cook at Home:
Recipes for every day and every occasion
Anna (star of Sugar) and Michael (Inn in the Twenty,
Niagara Fallsview Casino) are food professionals who also love to
cook at home. The two share their cooking savvy in seasonal menus
built around people, occasions, adventures - even necessity. Colour
photos. Softcover, 288 p, $39.95.
Silver: Jurgen Gothe
DiscCookery
The DiscDrive: 20th Anniversary Cookbook from CBC Radio.
Special Interest Food and Beverage Book:
(for books about food; non-cookbooks)
Gold: Pam Freir,
Laughing with my mouth
full: Tales from a Gulf Islands kitchen
Silver: Nazneen Sheikh
Tea and pomegranates:
A memoir of food, family and Kashmir
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