Celebrity chef Mary Berg among shortlisted writers for 2024 Taste Canada Awards
The awards celebrate Canada’s best cookbooks and food-related stories of the year
Toronto celebrity chef and broadcaster Mary Berg, best known for her appearance on MasterChef Canada, is among the nominees for the 2024 Taste Canada Awards.
The Taste Canada Awards annually celebrate the year's best in Canadian food writing awarded across five English-language and five French-language categories.
Berg is shortlisted in the general cookbooks category for In Mary's Kitchen: Stress-Free Recipes for Every Home Cook. In Mary's Kitchen offers uncomplicated and delicious recipes to turn the kitchen into everyone's happy place.
Berg is the author of two other cookbooks, including Well Seasoned, which won the Taste Canada Award for general cookbooks in 2022. She's the host of Mary Makes It Easy and The Good Stuff with Mary Berg and the Season 3 winner of MasterChef Canada, which launched her cooking career full-time.
In addition to hosting and writing, she's a frequent guest cooking expert on Your Morning, The Social and The Marilyn Denis Show.
The complete list of English-language nominees are below.
Culinary Narratives
- Kings of Their Own Ocean by Karen Pinchin
- Kitchen Bliss by Laura Calder
- The Matryoshka Memoirs by Sasha Colby
- Where We Ate by Gabby Peyton
- Wine Witch on Fire by Natalie MacLean
General Cookbooks
- Cake & Loaf Gatherings by Nickey Miller and Josie Rudderham
- Dad in the Kitchen by Cory Vitiello and Chris Johns
- Fraiche Food, Fuller Hearts by Jillian Harris and Tori Wesszer
- In Mary's Kitchen by Mary Berg
- Salad Pizza Wine by Janice Tiefenbach, Stephanie Mercier Voyer, Ryan Gray and Marley Sniatowsky
Regional/Cultural Cookbooks
- Eat Alberta First by Karen Anderson
- Flavour with Benefits by Cathy Connally and Charley Best
- My Thali by Joe Thottungal with Anne DesBrisay
- Okanagan Eats by Dawn Postnikoff & Joanne Sasvari
- Sabai by Pailin Chongchitnant
Single-Subject Cookbooks
- A Generous Meal by Christine Flynn
- Anna Olson's Baking Wisdom by Anna Olson
- BReD by Ed Tatton with Natasha Tatton
- Farmhouse Vegetables by Michael Smith
- Let's Eat by DL Acken and Aurelia Louvet
Health or Special Diet Cookbooks
- Craving Vegan by Sam Turnbull
- Everyday Mediterranean by Vanessa Perrone
- Histamine Haven by Tracey Reed & Luka Symons
- Super Tonics by Meredith Youngson
- The Vegan Bridge by Romain Avril and Richelle Tablang
The shortlists were chosen by a jury of volunteers from the culinary industry.
The winners will be announced on October 21, 2024 at an event in Toronto.
