Anita Stewart, a prolific author of food-related books, passionate promotor of local food and popular radio and television commentator, has died. She was 73.
From her position at the University of Guelph, she contacted thousands of people in the food industry, collecting recipes and encouraging restaurants to source their food from local farmers and processors.
She was appointed to the Order of Canada.
Her publishing included:
· The Food, The Recipes, The Stories (HarperCollins Canada, Toronto, 2008)
· The Flavours of Canada: A Celebration of the Finest Regional Foods (Raincoast, Vancouver, 2000 / 2006)
· Great Canadian Cuisine: The Flavours of Canadian Pacific Hotels (Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver 1999)
· A Taste For Comfort: A Scenic Tour of Pacific Northwest Inns (C&D Publishing, Portland, Oregon, 1993)
· Canada's Great Country Inns: the Best in Food and Lodging (Random House / Fodors Toronto / New York 1992)
· From Our Mothers' Kitchens (Random House, Toronto 1991)
· The Country Inns Cookbook: Revised Edition (Stoddart Publishing, Toronto 1990)
· The Gray Rocks Story (Weiser & Weiser, New York,1989)
· The St.Lawrence Market Cookbook (Stoddart Publishing, Toronto 1988)
· The Lighthouse Cookbook (Harbour Publishing, Vancouver 1988)
· The Country Inns Cookbook, (Stoddart Publishing, Toronto 1987)
· Northern Bounty: A Celebration of Canadian Cuisine (Random House Canada, Toronto 1995)
· The Farmers' Market Cookbook (Stoddart, Toronto 1984)
· The Ontario Harvest Cookbook: An Exploration of Feasts and Flavours (Macmillan Canada, Toronto 1995)
