Taste Canada Announces Book Awards

Taste Canada Nominees for Food Writing Awards 2012

The long list of nominees for Taste Canada's Food Writing Awards in the Single-Subject Cookbooks category have been announced and three (!!) books by Pat Crocker including one co-authored by Nettie Cronish are among the fifteen nominations.

Some information about the Taste Canada Awards:

Taste Canada — The Food Writing Awards is an evolution of the former Canadian Culinary Book Awards.

These newly branded annual Awards will continue to recognize and celebrate superior writing and publishing throughout Canada’s culinary world, both English and French, while acknowledging and respecting the authority and history of the original Awards.

Winning authors and their publishers will receive recognition through:

• media outreach
• marketing partnerships with Canadian publishers
• a paid Awards event in November 2012
• a trophy to commemorate winning a Gold Award
• our ongoing partnerships with Canadian media outlets, retailers, and sponsors, along with Taste Canada sticker templates for the winning books

To view all of the nominees in the Single-Subject Cookbooks category, click here.

The short list of books for the Awards will be announced on August 1, 2012, so stay connected right to this blog and I will bring you all the news.

Meanwhile, if you are are a culinary professional and interested in joining Cuisine Canada, go here.

Uptown 21 Preserves

Pat's Recipes and Nick Benninger at Uptown 21

If you wanted to go to the dinner at Uptown 21 last week but couldn't, Andrew Coppolino was there and he covers the whole thing in his blog, Waterloo Region Eats.

Go here for the menu and photographs of each course. It was a grand tour de force.

I had a blast!

Pat Shows You How to Preserve

Yes you CAN!

Check out the CTV clip on Preserving with Pat Crocker

Click here to view Pat and her book, Preserving.

Everyday Flexitarian

Make Your Eating Style and your Kitchen Flexible

This year, you wanted to eat healthy. We all do! So why not go vegetarian one or two days a week? It's easy.

Nettie Cronish, my co-author on Everyday Flexitarian and I have been giving cooking demonstrations and seminars on Flexitarian cooking and from the comments we hear at those events, people are welcoming our book!

The flexitarian diet has no fixed rules. Instead, it recognizes that for some body types, responsible consumption of small amounts of organic beef, lamb, chicken and fish may be beneficial. Proponents of the flexitarian diet encourage people to adopt a healthy eating style, one that is largely based on vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, seeds and fruit.

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