{"id":11565,"date":"2012-11-09T11:53:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T11:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=11565"},"modified":"2012-11-20T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:49:13","slug":"celebrating-canadian-wine-food-writing-taste-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/celebrating-canadian-wine-food-writing-taste-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Canadian Wine, Food + Writing – Taste Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monday evening was a terrific celebration of Canadian food, wine and writing at Taste Canada\u2015The Food Writing Awards. According to Quill & Quire, the magazine for the Canadian publishing industry, the competition drew 73 book submissions this year, “a brilliant snapshot of the vibrancy and diversity of Canadian culinary publishing.”<\/p>\n

Karen Gelbart, National Chair of Taste Canada, commenetd, \u201cThe selection and diversity of the publishing and the cuisine in this country are breathtaking. Our judges were in the unique position of spending time with each of these books \u2014 reading the narratives and studying the presentation \u2014 to finally decide the winners in this year\u2019s Taste Canada Awards.\u201d<\/p>\n

I felt fortunate being among the nominees, especially since Unquenchable<\/a><\/strong> was the only booze book (clearly someone on the committee had been drinking when they threw it on the shortlist slush pile). It was a thrill to win the Culinary Narrative category … and I couldn’t have done it without the brilliant team at Doubleday\/Random House. (Here’s a second post<\/a><\/strong> about the evening.)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Taste Canada Food Writing Awards Gala was held at the Arcadian Court, Queen Street yesterday.\u00a0 This ceremony honours food writers in four categories and this year\u2019s winners were:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Regional\/Cultural Cookbooks<\/strong>: Food Network Chef David Rocco<\/p>\n

Made in Italy<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/em>General Cookbooks<\/strong>: Food Network Chef Michael Smith<\/p>\n

Chef Michael Smith\u2019s Kitchen: 100 of My Favourite Easy Recipes<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Single Subject Cookbooks<\/strong>: CBC TV It’s Just Food Host Julie van Rosendaal and Sue Duncan<\/p>\n

Spilling the Beans: Cooking and Baking with Beans and Grains Every Day<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Culinary Narrative<\/strong>: Natalie MacLean<\/p>\n

Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World\u2019s Best Bargain Wines<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Quill & Quire: “Last night\u2019s newly re-branded Taste Canada \u2013 The Food Writing Awards<\/strong> was a spirited affair. Held at the Arcadian Court in Toronto, the awards celebrate the country\u2019s best English- and French-language food books. After the ceremony, delicious culinary delights were offered upstairs at the Arcadian Lofts.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Happy! That’s the marvelous Christine Cushing to my left who was MC for the evening. She’s hosted lots of terrific cooking shows on television and has authored many fine cookbooks.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Judges\u2019 Verdicts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cShe puts a human face on wine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can read this book<\/a><\/strong> simply for the engaging characters, stories and writing flare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very user friendly in terms of consulting her recommendations for particular wines.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Monday evening was a terrific celebration of Canadian food, wine and writing at Taste Canada\u2015The Food Writing Awards. According to Quill & Quire, the magazine for the Canadian publishing industry, the competition drew 73 book submissions this year, “a brilliant snapshot of the vibrancy and diversity of Canadian culinary publishing.” Karen Gelbart, National Chair of Taste Canada, commenetd, \u201cThe selection and diversity of the publishing and the cuisine in this country are breathtaking. Our judges were in the unique position of spending time with each of these books \u2014 reading the narratives and studying the presentation \u2014 to finally decide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-unquenchable","category-events","category-wine-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11565"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11608,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions\/11608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}