Cookbooks on kale and Burmese cuisine win Taste Canada – The Food Writing Awards

By The Canadian Press

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 Monday at a gala in Toronto, hosted by 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 and “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.

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Online: www.tastecanada.org

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