The awards were hosted by Celebrity Chefs Ricardo Larivee and Vikram Vij who were previous Taste Canada Award winners.
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| Ricardo, Donna Doeher, Vikram Vij |
It was a great night that celebrated Canadian cookbook authors and for the first time Food Bloggers were also given awards which were sponsored by Food Bloggers of Canada.
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| Food Bloggers of Canada Team |
This was the first time they had a red carpet for the award nominees and having been there for the first time last year when they didn't have it I think it added a lot of fun and excitement to the awards and hopefully we made everyone feel like VIP's on the red carpet.
The Awards were presented and afterwards everyone moved to a Gala Reception where local restaurants and caterers had a lovely set up of some brilliant food. My favourites of the night were Rock Lobster's Bisque and freshly shucked oysters by owner Matt Dean Pettit. I also enjoyed the amazing array of chocolates from Cocoa Berry. Dufflet had delicious tiramisu and lemon cake squares. There was also a lot of different kinds of pork dishes it seemed with Matt Basile (Lisa Marie) making a pork lettuce wrap and there was also Ted Reader with pork belly and barley risotto. Vanessa Yeung (Aphrodite Cooks) had a dumpling in braised beef broth is what I think she said. 
Martin Kouprie (Pangea) had a pretty complicated dish of pheasant I think with a sausage and blanched brussel sprouts and green puree and a few other touches. The most complicated dish of the night for sure. It was very lovely and so fun to see so many fellow bloggers and local chefs and Industry people that I know. Last year there were only a couple of food bloggers there and I only knew one of them and a couple of other people. After attending a whole lot of events this past year this year was different with a whole lot more familiar faces and new friends to chat with. It turned out to be a really fun event. Here are the winners. |
| Taste Canada Award Winners |
2015 TASTE CANADA AWARD Winners
Culinary
Narratives/Narrations Culinaires
Secrets of a Hutterite
Kitchen: Unveiling the Rituals, Traditions, and Food of the Hutterite Culture
Mary-Ann Kirkby
Penguin Canada Books, Toronto
Penguin Canada Books, Toronto
Ainsi cuisinaient les
belles-sœurs dans l’œuvre de Michel Tremblay : Une traversée de notre
patrimoine culinaire 1913 – 1963
Anne Fortin
Flammarion Québec, Montréal
Flammarion Québec, Montréal
General
Cookbooks/ Livres de Cuisine Générale
Regional/Cultural
Cookbooks / Livres de cuisine régionale et culturelle
The SoBo Cookbook:
Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road
Lisa Ahier and Andrew Morrison
Appetite by Random House, Vancouver
Lisa Ahier and Andrew Morrison
Appetite by Random House, Vancouver
Single-Subject
Cookbooks/Livres de Cuisine Sujet Unique
Food
blog – Best Post / Blogue culinaire – meilleure publication
« Pizza 3 minutes : saucisses italiennes, épinards, tomates
cerises, cœurs d’artichauts et mozzarella »
Christelle Tanielian
Christelle Is Flabbergasting
Christelle Tanielian
Christelle Is Flabbergasting
2015 Hall of Fame Inductees
Rose
Murray (1941–) From writing, to
teaching, to television and radio appearances across Canada, over a long
career, Murray has shaped our perspective of Canadian cuisine.
Nellie
Lyle Pattinson (1879–1953) Pattinson
wrote the Canadian
Cook Book, published by Ryerson
Press in 1923 and reprinted twenty times up to 1949.
Helen
Wattie (1911–2009) and Elinor Donaldson Whyte (1926–) These two women updated Pattinson’s text to reflect Canada’s
prosperity and changing food habits after World War II, with an
innovative 1953 edition, that included – for the first time in
Canada – a chapter of “Regional Dishes”.
For more info about the Awards go to http://www.tastecanada.org
All photos by Linda Matarasso ©2015
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