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Ms. Calder is the host of the Food Network television series French Food at Home, and author of the cookbooks French Taste: elegant everyday eating (HarperCollins, Canada, 2009) and French Food at Home (HarperCollins, New York, 2003). Her food writing has appeared in publications including Vogue Entertaining and Travel, The Times of London, The Wine Journal, Salon.com, Flare, and Gastronomica.

She holds a MSc from The London School of Economics in the UK, a BA in western culture and civilization from Concordia University’s Liberal Arts College, and a BA (hons) in Linguistics from Glendon College, York University.

After a decade in France, she recently moved to Toronto – where she’s throwing a lot of dinner parties…

Published Works

By This Author

In Search Of An Honest Meal

So much of what we eat is sold as something it isn't. Sadly, few people seem to mind....
The Man Test Dinner

Does he barbeque? Carve? Whip cream? One good test of the quality of a man is how he behaves at dinner parties....
First Attempts

Perfection in entertaining is neither attainable nor necessarily desirable. The road to great dinner parties is paved with simple suppers and witty, half-starved friends....

The Mark

Laura Calder

Published Works

By This Author

In Search Of An Honest Meal

So much of what we eat is sold as something it isn't. Sadly, few people seem to mind....

The Man Test Dinner

Does he barbeque? Carve? Whip cream? One good test of the quality of a man is how he behaves at dinner parties....

First Attempts

Perfection in entertaining is neither attainable nor necessarily desirable. The road to great dinner parties is paved with simple suppers and witty, half-starved friends....