The 2026 winners of the Taste Canada Awards / Les Lauréats des Saveurs du Canada were announced in Toronto on Oct. 25.

The national bilingual awards program for culinary writing bestows gold and silver prizes in French and English in five categories: culinary narratives, general cookbooks, regional / cultural cookbooks, single subject cookbooks, and health, lifestyle or special diet cookbooks.

The full list of winners, including French language titles can be found here.

Celebrity chef and author Michael Smith and cookbook author Niloufer Mavalvala were also officially inducted into the Taste Canada Hall of Fame.

The winners in the English language category are:

Culinary Narratives

• Gold: How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty by Bonny Reichert (Appetite by Random House/PRHC) Review
• Silver: The Lobster Trap: The Global Fight for a Seafood on the Brink by Greg Mercer (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)

General Cookbooks

• Gold: The Essential Cottage Cookbook: Simply Delicious Recipes for Cottages, Cabins, and Wherever Your Travels Take You by Andrea Buckett (Appetite by Random House/PRHC)
• Silver: Arthurs: Home of the Nosh: A Big Personality Cookbook of Delicious Jewish Favorites by Raegan Steinberg, Alexander Cohen, and Evelyne Eng (Appetite by Random House/PRHC)

Regional / Cultural Cookbooks

• Gold: My Cypriot Table: Mediterranean Recipes for Gathering, Sharing, and Savoring by Irene Matys (Appetite by Random House/PRHC)
• Silver: La Cucina di Terroni: The Cookbook by Cosimo Mammoliti (Simon & Schuster)

Single Subject Cookbooks

• Gold: Wood, Fire and Smoke: Recipes and Techniques for Wood-Fired Cooking by Michael Smith (Penguin Canada)
• Silver: Bread etc.: Recipes + Techniques for Baking with Sourdough, Yeasted Dough, Pizza Dough + More by Matthew James Duffy (Appetite by Random House/PRHC)

Health, Lifestyle or Special Diet Cookbooks

• Gold: Two Chefs in the Garden: Over 150 Garden-Inspired Vegetarian Recipes by Lynn Crawford and Lora Kirk (Penguin Canada)
• Silver: Tahini Baby, Bright, Everyday Recipes That Happen to Be Vegetarian by Eden Grinshpan (Penguin Canada)

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