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News August 26, 2006
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Cusine Canada Book Awards Short List
The awards will be presented Saturday September 16th at the Cuisine
Canada Conference in Winnipeg. There is a separate category for French
language books which you can see at Cuisine Canada's web site, http://www.cuisinecanada.ca.
Only the English
language list is presented here.
Cookbook
Category
- DiscCookery
Jurgen Gothe
- Anna and Michael Olson Cook
at Home: Recipes for
every day and every occasion
Anna and Michael Olson
- Flavours of Cooper's
Cove Guesthouse
Angelo Prosperi-Porta
Special Interest Category
Books about food
(not cookbooks)
- Laughing with my Mouth Full: Tales from a Gulf Islands kitchen
Pam Freir
- Dish: Memories, recipes and delicious bites
Marion Kane
- Tea and Pomegranates:
a memoir of food, family and Kashmir
Nazneen Sheikh
Canadian Food Culture Category
Books that best illustrate
Canadaís
rich culinary heritage and food culture
- Chapeau! Canada:
Les grands chefs
Anton Fercher
- Arab cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead:
Recipes and recollections
Habeeb Salloum
- Chow: From China to Canada:
Memories of food + family
Janice Wong
Events
We're actively planning fall/winter events, so we thought
we would tease you with who's coming with their new books. More dates
TBA.
- Dinah Koo & Jan
Poon, The Cocktail Chef
- Tony Aspler, Canadian Atlas of Wine
- Linda Haynes, More Recipes
from Ace Bakery
- Anna Olson, Another Cup of Sugar, Saturday, November
25th
- Gurth Pretty, The Definitive Guide to Canadian Artisanal
and Fine Cheeses, Saturday December 2nd
- Lucy Waverman, Lucy's
Kitchen, Saturday December 9th
Food News
Upcoming festivals include the 22nd Vegetarian Food Fair
at Harbourfront, September 8-10, with over 100 exhibitors
as well as cooking
demos this is North
America's largest vegetarian food festival.
One
of our favourite events is Feast of Fields celebrating
all things organic. Always held outdoors this year's event is Sunday,
September 17th
from 1-5 pm. at
Albion Hills Conservation Area.
Rumour
has it Wolfgang Puck has taken over the premises of the much lamented
Patriot restaurant on Bloor in the Colonade, upper level. Just a rumour,
we shall see...
On a recent trip to Prince Edward County, my husband and
I spend three hours with the wonderfully engaging Norman
Hardie at
his self-named winery.
I think
it's that old French ploy of keeping us at his place long enough so
we can't go and visit any body else! His Riesling will be well worth
your
money.
We
visited 5 of the 10 wineries in the County, some are still in their
infancy stage but
one wants to support them. It reminds me very much of Niagara 20 years
ago when Cave Spring Cellars was just starting out.
Well worth a visit as you
can actually
talk to the wine makers, feel the soil, or in this case limestone,
and no tour buses in sight, yet!
Lunch at the Bloomfield
Carriage House Restaurant (former
Toronto chefs Jackie Vickers and Scott Kapitan)
and then dinner at Harvest in Picton, where Karen and Michael Potters
have
now hung
their pots and
pans,
and
you have a lovely day or weekend trip.
Speaking of Riesling we have
had the opportunity to taste the Charles Baker 2005 Picone
Vineyard Riesling. Delicious, full in the mouth, pear
with an
elegant finish. This will be a perfect match for food, in fact we were
imagining pig three ways and a bottle of this Riesling - all would
be well! We predict
the Charles Baker label will generate a cult following as only 250
six pack cases are available for the 2005 vintage. If you want to order
you
must get
on the
mailing list for ordering/shipping in September.
Chef
David Lee of Splendido in Toronto,
is producing some fantastic breads. His bacon brioche sublime, the
breads are available at Pusateri's everyday
at
the Avenue
Road location, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Bay & Yorkville
location.
A recent article in The Independent on Britain's
richest chefs makes for very interesting reading. Top dog is Gordon
Ramsay, worth
67 million
pounds
at the
age of 39! Following close on his apron strings is Jamie
Oliver,
age 31, at 58 million pounds. I recommend you check out this link
for a
complete summary
of the top
10 and in depth profiles of these millionaire chefs/authors and their
empires, you will be intrigued. http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/food_and_drink/features/article1220937.ece Back to top |
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