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Cuisine Canada, the alliance of culinary professionals in Canada, and the University of Guelph just announced the winners of the 12th annual Canadian Culinary Book Awards. Support your peeps (Canadians) and think about buying local... cookbooks, that is!

Winner of the Canadian Culinary Landmarks Hall of Fame is:

• Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825–1949 by Elizabeth Driver (University of Toronto Press, Toronto)

Winners in the English Cookbook Category are:

• Gold: Small Plates for Sharing, Laurie Stempfle, Ed. (Company's Coming Publishing Limited, Edmonton)
• Silver: The Complete Canadian Living Baking Book: The Essentials of Home Baking by Elizabeth Baird (Transcontinental Books, Montreal)

Winners in the English Special Interest Category (books about food and beverages, but not cookbooks) are:

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

Winners in the English Canadian Food Culture Category, books that best illustrate Canada's rich culinary heritage and food culture are:

• Gold: Anita Stewart, Anita Stewart's Canada (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Toronto)
• Silver: Webb, Margret, Apples to Oysters: A Food Lover's Tour of Canadian Farms (Penguin Group Canada, Toronto)

Winners in the French Cookbook Category are:

• Gold: Ricardo: parce qu'on a tous de la visite: cuisiner en toutes circonstances by Ricardo (Les Éditions La Presse, Montréal)
• Silver: Gibier à poil et à plume: découper, apprêter et cuisiner by Jean-Paul Grappe (Les Éditions de l'Homme, Montréal)

Winners in the French Special Interest Category (books about food, but not cookbooks) are:

• Gold: Les vins du nouveau monde, tome 2 by Jacques Orhon, (Les Éditions de l'Homme, Montréal)
• Silver: Répertoire des fromages du Québec, Édition augmentée by Richard Bizier et Roch Nadeau (Les Éditions du Trécarré-Groupe Librex inc., Montréal)

Winner of the French Canadian Food Culture Category, books that best illustrate Canada's rich culinary heritage and food culture, is:

• Gold: Québec capitale gastronomique par Anne L. Desjardins (Les Éditions La Presse, Montréal)

The Edna Award is a special award in honour of food writer Edna Staebler that honours lifetime achievement by a an individual in the promotion of regional cuisine and who has exemplified regional cuisine through his or her work.

• This year's recipient is Robert Arniel of Chef To Goin St John's, Newfoundland.

Cuisine Canada's Founders Award is given on occasion to those Canadians who have achieved a lifetime of service to the culinary community of Canada. They may be come from any field of culinary endeavour.

• This year's recipient is Judy Creighton.