Laura Calder


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 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.

Personal life

Calder was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, and raised in Long Reach on Kingston Peninsula, the southern part of New Brunswick. 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 Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in France.

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