The Icelandic Canadian - 01.09.2003, Qupperneq 41

Vol. 58 #1
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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again, altering the proportions of the ingre-
dients until it works. You probably won’t
mind. I am told that Edna Staebler, one of
Canada’s most famous and successful
cooks and cookbook writers, simply wel-
comed corrections to her recipes and
inserted them in subsequent editions. That
never stopped her cookbooks from being
best-sellers. This book is going to be in
print for a long time; at least, I hope so.
There’ll be time to add any necessary cor-
rections as time goes on. I hope, too, in
subsequent editions, that a few of the pages
might be made clearer. Some of them are
hard to read because they’re printed over
reproductions of hand-written recipes or
old photographs. It’s a very small com-
plaint for an enchanting cookbook. Before
you start cooking from it and get it dirty,
take it to bed and read it right through.
Editor’s Note: Kristin Olafson-
Jenkyns won two awards at this year’s
Northern Bounty conference for Cuisine
Canada for her book The Culinary Saga of
New Iceland. Culinary Book awards are
presented annually in three categories for
cookbooks published in Canada during the
previous year. The awards were a Gold
Award, Special Interest Food & Beverage
Category, and a Silver Award, Canada
Food Culture Category. The awards were
presented at a gala dinner in Guelph,
Ontario, for the 2002 Cuisine Canada
Culinary Book Awards. The “Best ot the
Best” was the evening’s menu, using
recipes taken from each of last year’s win-
ning cookbooks, matched with some of
Canada’s finest wines.
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