Laura Calder
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Laura Calder vthe host of the James Beard Award
-winning series French Food at Home, airing on Food Network Canada, Cooking Channel U.S.A. and internationally. She is also a judge on Recipe to Riches, airing fall 2011 on Food Network Canada, and has been a guest judge on both Top Chef Canada and Iron Chef America. Laura is the author of French Food at Home (2003), as well as the bestselling French Taste: elegant, everyday, eating (2009), which won the Cuisine Canada gold medal, and her latest release Dinner Chez Moi: the Fine Art of Feeding Friends (Fall 2011). Laura was recently honoured with the Ordre National du Mérite Agricole by the French government.
Laura Calder was born and raised in eastern Canada. She attended university in Canada and the U.K., and began her career in journalism before turning to food, studying at the Dubrulle Culinary Institute in Vancouver, Canada, and at Ecole de Cuisine LaVarenne in France.
After a decade of living in France, Laura is now based in Canada.
James Beard Foundation Award
The James Beard Foundation Awards were established in 1990 and are often called "The Oscars of Food." Held on the first weekend in May, the Awards honor the finest chefs, restaurants, wine professionals, journalists, cookbook authors, restaurant designers, and other food professionals in the...
-winning series French Food at Home, airing on Food Network Canada, Cooking Channel U.S.A. and internationally. She is also a judge on Recipe to Riches, airing fall 2011 on Food Network Canada, and has been a guest judge on both Top Chef Canada and Iron Chef America. Laura is the author of French Food at Home (2003), as well as the bestselling French Taste: elegant, everyday, eating (2009), which won the Cuisine Canada gold medal, and her latest release Dinner Chez Moi: the Fine Art of Feeding Friends (Fall 2011). Laura was recently honoured with the Ordre National du Mérite Agricole by the French government.
Laura Calder was born and raised in eastern Canada. She attended university in Canada and the U.K., and began her career in journalism before turning to food, studying at the Dubrulle Culinary Institute in Vancouver, Canada, and at Ecole de Cuisine LaVarenne in France.
After a decade of living in France, Laura is now based in Canada.
Awards
- 2009: Canada Cuisine — Gold Medal for French Taste: elegant, everyday, eating
- 2009: Ordre National du Mérite Agricole
Television credits
| Year | Program | Episodes | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | French Food At Home, Series 1 | 26 episodes | 30 minutes |
| 2007 | French Food At Home, Series 2 | 26 episodes | 30 minutes |
| 2007 | The Chateau Dinner, French Food At Home Special | 46 minutes | |
| 2008 | French Food At Home, Series 3 | 26 episodes | 30 minutes |