Canadian Culinary Book Awards Finalists

Cuisine Canada and the University of Guelph Library have announced the shortlist for the 2009 Canadian Culinary Book Awards. The winner will be announced at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto on November 6. Meanwhile, there's still time to get your hands on some and read them.

English-language Cookbooks

• The Complete Canadian Living Baking Book: The Essentials of Home Baking by Elizabeth Baird (Transcontinental Books, Montreal)
• Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan (McClelland Stewart Ltd., Toronto) – got!
• Small Plates for Sharing, Laurie Stempfle, Ed. (Company’s Coming Publishing Limited, Edmonton)

English-language Special Interest Food Books

• Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid (Random House Canada, Toronto)
• Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Toronto) – want!

English-language Canadian Food Culture Books

• Anita Stewart’s Canada by Anita Stewart (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Toronto)
• Apples to Oysters: A Food Lover’s Tour of Canadian Farms by Margaret Webb (Penguin Group Canada, Toronto) – want!
• A Taste of Canada: A Culinary Journey by Rose Murray (Whitecap Books Ltd., North Vancouver)

French-language Cookbooks

• Gibier à poil et à plume : découper, apprêter et cuisiner by Jean-Paul Grappe (Les Éditions de l’Homme, Montréal) – want!
• Ricardo : parce qu’on a tous de la visite : cuisiner en toutes circonstances by Ricardo (Les Éditions La Presse, Montréal)
• Les secrets des sauces révélés by Jérôme Ferrer (Les Éditions La Presse, Montréal)

French-language Special Interest Food Books

• Un jeu d’enfant by Guylaine Guèvremont and Marie-Claude Lortie (Les Éditions La Presse, Montréal)
• Répertoire des fromages du Québec, Édition augmentée by Richard Bizier and Roch Nadeau (Les Éditions du Trécarré-Groupe Librex inc., Montréal) – want!
• Les vins du nouveau monde, Volume 2, by Jacques Orhon, (Les Éditions de l’Homme, Montréal)

French-language Canadian Food Culture Books

• Québec capitale gastronomique by Anne L Desjardins (Les Éditions La Presse, Montréal)