Laura Calder
{{short description|Canadian chef}}
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Laura Calder is a Canadian chef. 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.
Calder has written four cookbooks, including French Food at Home (2003), French Taste: Elegant, Everyday, Eating (2009), Dinner Chez Moi: The Fine Art of Feeding Friends (2011), and Paris Express: Simple Food from the City of Style (2014). French Taste was awarded the 2010 Taste Canada gold medal for cookbooks. She has also written The Inviting Life (2017) and Kitchen Bliss (2023). She is 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/2011-08-27/html/gh-rg-eng.html|title=ARCHIVED — Canada Gazette – GOVERNMENT HOUSE|last=Gazette|first=Government of Canada, Public Works and Government Services Canada, Public Services and Procurement Canada, Integrated Services Branch, Canada|website=www.gazette.gc.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-05-12}}
Personal life
Calder was born in Saint John, New Brunswick,{{cite web|last=Nightingale|first=Marie|title=French Flair|url=http://www.saltscapes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=876&catid=1&Itemid=34|work=Saltscapes|accessdate=16 October 2013}} and raised in Long Reach on Kingston Peninsula, the southern part of New Brunswick.{{cite web|last=Roper|first=Harrison|title=Don't Talk About It!|url=http://www.friendsjournal.org/2008130/|work=Friends Journal|publisher=Friends Publishing Corporation|accessdate=16 October 2013|date=November 1, 2008}} She left New Brunswick to attend Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She also attended York University in Toronto, and the London School of Economics in the U.K., after a stint as a sports reporter for a New Brunswick newspaper. Leaving London to return to Canada, Calder took a job in PR, but left that position to enroll in the Dubrulle Culinary Institute, a cooking school in Vancouver. She then honed her cooking skills at the École de Cuisine La Varenne in France.{{cite web|url=http://www.lauracalder.ca/content/about_laura|title=About Laura|work=LauraCalder.com|access-date=2011-12-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906104250/http://www.lauracalder.ca/content/about_laura|archive-date=2010-09-06|url-status=dead}}
Filmography
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! colspan=4 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Television |
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! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Year ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Show ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Role ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Notes |
| 2007—2010
| Host | |
| 2007
| The Chateau Dinner, French Food At Home Special | Herself | |
| 2008
| Twas the Night Before Dinner Christmas Special | Herself | Christmas special with Bob Blumer, Anthony Sedlak, Anna Olson, and Ricardo Larrivée |
| rowspan="3"|2011
| Herself/Judge | Battle mussels, Battle caviar |
| Top Chef Canada
| Herself/Guest judge | Episode "The French Feast" |
| Recipe to Riches
| Herself/Judge | |
Awards and nominations
- 2009: James Beard Foundation Award — Nominated for Best Television Food Show, National and Local {{Cite web|url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search?year=&keyword=laura+calder|title=Awards Search {{!}} James Beard Foundation|access-date=2017-05-12}}
- 2010: Taste Canada — Winner of Gold Medal for Cookbook: French Taste: Elegant Everyday Eating {{Cite web|url=http://tastecanada.org/winners/|title=Award Winners - Taste Canada AwardsTaste Canada Awards|website=tastecanada.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-05-12}}
- 2010: James Beard Foundation Award — Winner of Best Television Show, In Studio or Fixed Location for French Food at Home
- 2011: Awarded Order of Agricultural Merit
Bibliography
- French Food At Home, ({{ISBN|0060087714}}, 2003)
- French Taste: Elegant Everyday Eating, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, ({{ISBN|1554681022}}, 2009)
- Dinner Chez Moi: the Fine Art of Feeding Friends, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd ({{ISBN|1554689023}}, 2011)
- Paris Express: Simple Food from the City of Style, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. ({{ISBN|9781443420204}}, 2014)
- The Inviting Life: An Inspirational Guide to Homemaking, Hosting and Opening the Door to Happiness, Doubleday Canada ({{ISBN|9780147530523}}, 2017)
- Kitchen Bliss: Musings on Food and Happiness (With Recipes), Simon & Schuster Canada ({{ISBN|9781982194703}}, 2023)
References
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External links
- [http://www.lauracalder.com/ Laura Calder's official website]
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Category:Canadian expatriates in France
Category:Canadian expatriates in England
Category:Canadian cookbook writers
Category:Canadian television chefs
Category:Knights of the Order of Agricultural Merit
Category:Writers from Saint John, New Brunswick