Margaret Webb, former keynote speaker at the Guelph Organic Conference and author of Apples to Oysters: A Food Lovers Tour of Canadian Farms. She is a well known journalist, writer, educator, and food activist. Margaret has a new paper out called Turning the Tables, a dialogue about diabetes.

FROM THE GUELPH MERCURY: February 1, 2010

Food author pushes for national food policy in Guelph speech

GUELPH — Canadians are aware of the country’s broken food system and need a national food policy.

It was the message delivered by author Margaret Webb at the 2009 Organic Agricultural Conference’s keynote address Saturday…read more.

GUELPH, ON (October 27, 2009) — With giant pumpkins and miniature vegetables as a backdrop, Canadian celebrity cookbook authors will be front stage on the opening weekend Nov 6, 7 and 8.  Come to see a baker’s dozen of well-known personalities that range from Laurie Stempfle, author of the popular Company’s Coming series to Elizabeth Baird, author of Complete Canadian Living Baking Book to Rose Murray, author of A Taste of Canada: A Culinary Journey.   They will be sharing their secret ingredients while chef students from Liaison College, Georgian College, Stratford Chefs School and George Brown College prepare a signature dish.

At each cooking presentation, six lucky winners will win a place at “Canada’s Dinner Table” to savour the plated meal.  Dishes will be as diverse as shrimp with horseradish beef coulis to cheddar and onion galette to New World coq au vin. All of the cookbook authors have been shortlisted for the 2009 Canadian Culinary Book Awards.  Winners will be known by 4 pm, November 6, when the celebrity cooking starts.

Join some of Canada’s most popular culinary talent at the “Entertaining at Home” stage, located in Hall A of the Direct Energy Centre. Cuisine Canada will have a booth in Hall A (#3816), for the duration of the show, Nov 6 – 15th, showcasing field-to-table ingredients and rare cookbooks from the University of Guelph collection. Take a look at how ingredients have changed through the years.  Culinary professionals and historians will be on hand to answer questions.  2009 winning cookbooks will be on sale by the Cookbook Store at the Cuisine Canada Booth during the first weekend.

For the complete listing of Cuisine Canada Celebrity Authors on stage for the Royal, visit Cuisine Canada Scene.

For interviews, book cover photos or book synopses, contact:

Karen Davidson

416 252-7337 or 416-557-6413 cell
kdavidson (at) ecomente.ca

Did the recent Toronto Star articles by Margaret Webb (Crisis On The Farm) have any effect on you? Explain.