Jennifer Cockrall-King is a Canadian writer and author based in Naramata, in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. She writes about food, drinks, cooking, and nature, and is a contributing editor and columnist for the award-winning Canadian narrative journalism magazine Eighteen Bridges.
For the past several years, Jennifer has been writing about urban issues such as food culture, food security, urban planning and urban agriculture. Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and The New Food Revolution (Prometheus Books, 2012) is her first book. It is in translation in French, Japanese, and Korean.
Food Artisans of the Okanagan: Your Guide to Locally Crafted Fare (TouchWood Editions, 2016) is her second book. It includes over 125 interviews with farm-to-table chefs, bakers, beekeepers, orchardists, farmers, market gardeners, butchers and charcutiers, fisherpeople, coffee roasters, distillers, craft brewers, chocolatiers, millers, foragers, cheesemakers, fishmongers, and producers of fine craft food products. It won the 2017 Taste Canada Gold Award for Culinary Narratives.
She has co-authored a cookbook called Tawaw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine with her friend chef Shane Chartrand. Tawaw will be published October 2019 by House of Anansi Press.
Jennifer is also working on a book about seed banks and seed savers around the world, tentatively titled Going to Seed: Racing to Save the World’s Food Supply.
Of note:
took a field trip to our soon-to-be home today 😍
2Sitting here thinking I haven't heard much about Black History Month events in Alberta so I started Googling. February 1, MacEwan U presents "The Double Pandemic for Black Canadians" with Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard. https://t.co/rBtjchgbz3
Thanks Twyla!! We appreciate being among such good company.
On @EdmAMCBC, I spoke of Alberta-authored cookbooks Tawaw(@chefchartrand /@jennifer_ck), Prairie Table (@KitchenMagpie ), Dirty Food (@dinnerwithjulie) but ran out of time! 2 more recs are @duchessbakeshop's Duchess at Home & the Spicy Touch by @albertafoodtour's Karen Anderson!
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The New York Times: Canada’s Napa Valley Seeks Elusive Audience: Canadian Wine Drinkers.
https://t.co/5mRBDEFGYr