B.C. cookbooks take home big wins at the 2020 Taste Canada Awards
Burdock & Co was recognized in the Regional/Cultural category
Andrea Carlson’s first cookbook showcases the chef’s wild imagination.
WITH A THEME of “farm to kitchen”, this year’s edition of the annual Taste Canada Awards drew 86 entries from seven provinces.
A few local talents put the West Coast on the podium at a recent virtual ceremony.
Let Me Feed You: Everyday Recipes Offering the Comfort of Home (Appetite by Random House) by Rosie Daykin of Vancouver’s Butter Baked Goods Bakery and Cafe (hello, hand-cut marshmallows) won Gold in the General Cookbooks category.
Burdock & Co chef Andrea Carlson loves using seasonal ingredients in her cooking.
In the Regional/Cultural category, Silver went to Andrea Carlson’s Burdock & Co—Poetic Recipes Inspired By Ocean, Land & Air (with Clea McDougall; Appetite by Random House). The chef behind the eponymous Mount Pleasant restaurant has earned a loyal following with her originality, imagination, and ahead-of-the-pack seasonality, along with her devotion to naturalist wine. The most hotly anticipated cookbook of 2019, it features ingredients like spruce bud, cattail, and staghorn sumac.
Vancouver registered dietitian Desiree Nielsen’s Eat More Plants: Over 100 Anti-Inflammatory, Plant-Based Recipes for Vibrant Living (Penguin Canada) was awarded Gold in the Health and Special Diets category.
Stephen Yan was inducted into the Taste Canada Awards Hall of Fame. Having moved to Vancouver from Hong Kong at age 19 in 1967, he was the first Chinese-Canadian chef to host a cooking show, Wok with Yan. You might remember his wok and cleaver as much as his aprons, which were emblazoned with puns like “Don’t wok the boat” and “Wokkey Night in Canada”. Also inducted was the late Norene Gilletz, Canada’s queen of kosher cuisine.
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