Laura Calder -- 16 Tasty Morsels
By:
Mark Levine
From six-year-old local bake-off winner to James Beard award winner, Laura Calder has some enviable culinary experiences under her apron...
- Hosts French Food At Home -- simple French home cooking which anyone can make
- Won first cooking award at age six for Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Icing
- Pulled off her first multi-course family dinner at age nine – each dish contained cheese
- Was obsessed with German baking – including breads and pretzels
- Snacks on iron-rich dulse...seaweed from off the coast of Canada
- Attended cooking school in Vancouver
- Loves personal recipe collections and handwritten cookbooks
- Worked for a wine expert in Napa, California
- Collaborated with Anne Villan - founder of Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in Burgundy, France
- Craves Panda Licorice
- Wrote her first cookbook, French Food At Home, while in Paris
- Has a deep appreciation for fresh coffee with a frothy head from an Italian paraspruzzo
- Wrote for Gourmet, Salon, The Wine Journal and The Times of London
- Apprenticed in starred restaurants and worked as a private chef
- Has been known to use porcelain “pie birds”
- Won 2010 James Beard Award for her show, French Food At Home
Catch French Food At Home on Cooking Channel, beginning May 31st.
