Home Living Books: Cookbooks on kale and Burmese cuisine win...

Waterloo Region Record

TORONTO — Well-done cookbooks about kale and the flavours of Burma are among the winners at Taste Canada — The Food Writing Awards.

The winners were announced this week at a gala in Toronto, hosted by chef Stefano Faita of CBC's In the Kitchen with Stefano Faita.

Burma: Rivers of Flavor, by Naomi Duguid (Random House of Canada), was named best in the regional/cultural cookbooks category while The Book of Kale: The Easy-to-Grow Superfood, 80+ Recipes by Sharon Hanna earned the top spot in the single-subject cookbooks category.

Other winners included:

Canada's Favourite Recipes by Rose Murray and Elizabeth Baird (Whitecap Books) in the general cookbooks category. Murray is a Cambridge resident.

French Kids Eat Everything (And Yours Can Too), by Karen Le Billon (HarperCollins Publishers) in the culinary narrative category.

The Taste Canada/CBC People's Choice Award went to The Vegetarian's Complete Quinoa Cookbook, edited by Mairlyn Smith with contributions from the Ontario Home Economics Association (Whitecap Books).

The annual contest celebrates "superior writing and publishing throughout Canada's culinary world."

The contest drew 64 submissions this year.

At this week's event, food writer Elizabeth Baird was inducted into the Taste Canada Hall of Fame.

The former food editor of Canadian Living magazine has had a hand in more than 30 cookbooks since her first, Classic Canadian Cooking, was published in 1974. Earlier this year, the Stratford native was named a member of the Order of Canada.

Two posthumous inductees to the hall of fame were Mère Emelie Caron (1808-1888) and Helen Gougeon (1924-2000).

Caron was involved in producing the cookbook Directions diverses, a standard kitchen reference for years at many of Quebec's Catholic institutions.

Gougeon, born in Ottawa, was a cookbook author and food journalist best known as an advocate of ethnic cuisine and of regional Canadian cooking.

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