Name Laura Calder Role Cook | Nationality Canadian | |
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Books French Taste: Elegant E, Dinner Chez Moi: The Fine, French Food at Home, Paris Express Similar People Anna Olson, Michael Smith, Nigella Lawson, Chuck Hughes, Nadia Giosia Profiles | ||
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Laura Calder is the author of French Food at Home. She also wrote the bestselling French Taste: Elegant, Everyday, Eating, which won the 2010 Taste Canada gold medal for Cookbook. Her latest release is Dinner Chez Moi: The Fine Art of Feeding Friends.
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- Ask a host with laura calder how do you cook french and keep your figure
- Laura calder french food at home french soup
- Personal life
- Awards and nominations
- References
Calder was host of the James Beard Award-winning series French Food at Home, airing on Food Network Canada, The Cooking Channel, and other international stations. She is also a judge on Recipe to Riches, a reality series on Food Network Canada, and has been a guest judge on both Top Chef Canada and Iron Chef America.
In 2011, the Canadian government announced that Calder had received the Order of Agricultural Merit from the French government, in the standing of knight.
Laura calder french food at home french soup
Personal life
Calder was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. (reference Laura's mother) and raised in Long Reach on Kingston Peninsula, the southern part of New Brunswick. She later left New Brunswick to attend Concordia University in Montreal. She later attended York University in Toronto, and then the London School of Economics in the U.K after a stint as a sports reporter for a New Brunswick newspaper. After London, she returned to Canada to a job in PR, but left the position to enroll in a cooking school in Vancouver at the Dubrulle Culinary Institute. She later honed her cooking skills at the Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in France.