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''. Calder was host of the

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-winning series ''

French Food at Home French Food at Home is a James Beard Foundation Award-winning cooking show presented by Laura Calder. It is filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia and airs on Food Network Canada, the Asian Food Channel, and the Cooking Channel. French Food at Home i ...

'', airing on

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, and other international stations. She is also a judge on ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2011, the Canadian government announced that Calder had received the

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from the French government, in the standing of knight.

Personal life

Calder was born in

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, and raised in Long Reach on

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, the southern part of

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. She left New Brunswick to attend

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, Quebec. She also attended

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in Toronto, and the

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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 Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in France.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

*2009:

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— Nominated for Best Television Food Show, National and Local *2010: Taste Canada — Winner of Gold Medal for Cookbook: ''French Taste: Elegant Everyday Eating'' *2010:

— Winner of Best Television Show, In Studio or Fixed Location for ''French Food at Home'' *2011: Awarded

Bibliography

*''French Food At Home'', (, 2003) *''French Taste: Elegant Everyday Eating'', HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, (, 2009) *''Dinner Chez Moi: the Fine Art of Feeding Friends'', HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (, 2011) *''Paris Express: Simple Food from the City of Style'', HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 2014 *''The Inviting Life: An Inspirational Guide to Homemaking, Hosting and Opening the Door to Happiness'', Doubleday Canada (, 2017)

References

External links

Laura Calder's official website
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