Bite The Book

Turning the Page: The Next Chapter in Cookbooks

Karon Liu, Zoe Maslow, Ozoz Sokoh and Bonnie Stern

7:00pm

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Lakeside Terrace

60 mins

In this panel discussion, the future of cookbooks will certainly be influenced by AI, as it continues to streamline recipe generation. Platforms like the popular New York Times cooking app integrate AI-driven features for recipe recommendations and meal planning. Perhaps TikTok with its short form cooking content will change the face of cookbooks as people look for visually engaging formats. Will cookbooks be relegated to digital companions in the kitchen? Join us for this stimulating panel.

Moderated by Emma Waverman.

Conversation

Panel Discussion

How to attend

$19.99

Single Day Pass

$249.99

Full Festival Pass

Students and youth save up to 50% on passes.

In this panel discussion, the future of cookbooks will certainly be influenced by AI, as it continues to streamline recipe generation. Platforms like the popular New York Times cooking app integrate AI-driven features for recipe recommendations and meal planning. Perhaps TikTok with its short form cooking content will change the face of cookbooks as people look for visually engaging formats. Will cookbooks be relegated to digital companions in the kitchen? Join us for this stimulating panel.

Moderated by Emma Waverman.

Conversation

Panel Discussion

Featured Authors

Karon Liu has been a staff food reporter for the Toronto Star since 2015 and aims to link food with culture, history, identity, politics – anything you can imagine. He’s also an avid home cook, and his favourite utensil is a pair of wooden chopsticks his grandma used to use.

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Zoe Maslow is a Senior Editor at Appetite, the boutique food and lifestyle division of Penguin Random House Canada. She has edited numerous bestselling and award-winning titles for the imprint, working with authors such as television star Mary Berg; IACP Award–winning chef and food writer Bonnie Stern; YouTube superstar Pailin Chongchitnant, of Hot Thai Kitchen fame; and 2022 IACP Award finalist Shahir Massoud. Zoe recently acquired Canadian rights for Soups, Salads, Sandwiches, the third cookbook from internationally bestselling superstar Matty Matheson; How to Share an Egg, a food memoir from Toronto chef and journalist Bonny Reichert; Chop Chop: An Invitation to the Nigerian Kitchen, from Kitchen Butterfly blogger Ozoz Sokoh; and Putting Down the Mother Load by the Instagram star and family psychotherapist behind @happyasamother, Erica Djossa.

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Ozoz Sokoh is a food explorer, educator, budding curator and Traveler By Plate, for whom “Food Is More Than Eating”. Since 2009, she's written the Kitchen Butterfly blog, and in 2020, she created Feast Afrique, a platform celebrating West African Culinary and Culture knowledge. She is a professor of Food & Tourism Studies at Centennial College. She makes her home in Mississauga, land of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Her first cookbook will be published by Artisan Books (Workman Publishing, World) and Appetite by Penguin Random House (Canada), Narrative landscape (West Africa) in the Spring of 2025.

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Bonnie Stern is the founder of the Bonnie Stern School of Cooking in Toronto, which she opened and operated from 1973 to 2011. She hosted three national cooking shows, and for 17 years, wrote a weekly column for the National Post. Bonnie is also the creator of a groundbreaking book club in which authors are invited to discuss their work during thematic dinners. She has authored 12 bestselling cookbooks, including Bonnie Stern's Essentials of Home Cooking, which won a coveted International Association of Culinary Professionals award. Bonnie is the recipient of many awards, including the Ontario Hostelry Institute's Gold Award, the Premier's Award, and, in 2021, Bonnie was inducted into the Taste Canada Hall of Fame. Bonnie’s latest cookbook, Don’t Worry, Just Cook, written with her daughter Anna Rupert, was published in 2022.

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7:00pm

Wednesday, September 27

Lakeside Terrace

60 mins

How to attend

$19.99

Single Day Pass

$249.99

Full Festival Pass

Students and youth save up to 50% on passes.

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