Joe Beef apocalypse cookbook wins gold at 2019 Taste Canada Awards
Frédéric Morin and David McMillan and their co-writer Meredith Erickson won gold in the general cookbooks category at the 2019 Taste Canada Awards for their book Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse.
The Taste Canada Awards annually celebrate the year's best in Canadian food writing. Gold and silver medal winners were awarded across five English-language and five French-language categories.
Morin and McMillan are the chefs behind Montreal's famous Joe Beef restaurant. With Erickson, they've collected 150 apocalypse-ready recipes, including canned bread, deer beer belly and pickled pork butt.
The silver prize in the general cookbooks category was awarded to Anna Olson for Set for the Holidays, a book of over 100 savoury and sweet recipes for special occasions.
The culinary narratives category was won by Out of Old Ontario Kitchens by Lindy Mechefske. The book explores the early recipes of Ontario, including dishes by First Nations and early settlers.
The culinary narratives silver went to Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix, an award-winning book featuring 224 plants from around the world to grow in your garden.
Here are the winners of the remaining English-language categories:
- Single-Subject Cookbooks Gold: French Pastry 101 by Betty Hung
- Single-Subject Cookbooks Silver: Ship to Shore by John Bil
- Regional/Cultural Cookbooks Gold: Bottom of the Pot by Naz Deravian
- Regional/Cultural Cookbooks Silver: Vegetarian Việt Nam by Cameron Stauch
- Health and Special Diet Cookbooks Gold: The Mindful Glow Cookbook by Abbey Sharp
- Health and Special Diet Cookbooks Silver: The Herbalist's Kitchen by Pat Crocker