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Whitecap ontario5/1/2023 In 2014, Alice Eats placed second in the Best Illustrated Cookbook category at the World Gourmand Awards, and Pimentos and Piri Piri won first prize at the Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design. Whitecap’s expertise in culinary books has gained us recognition in Canada and internationally. Whitecap's books are distributed by Fitzhenry & Whiteside from Markham, Ontario, but the company maintains its West Coast spirit and its editorial and production office in the heart of Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood. Whitecap titles are available across North America, with distribution in the United States through Midpoint Books, and can be found in traditional bookstores as well as a variety of alternative retail outlets, including museums, clothing stores, and cookware suppliers. In 2012, Whitecap Books was purchased by Fitzhenry & Whiteside. Whitecap has published historical and family cookbooks books of barbequeing, smoking and planking secrets illustrated books for those just starting out and those with a special love of the whimsical in the kitchen guides to the best wine, wine-makers, and beer recipes books for ultimate health, books for creating sugary confections, books on the cuisine of specific cultures, books for those on special diets, and books of no-nonsense good cookery.īooks such as Kate Aitken's Canadian Cookbook and Setting a Fine Table, Canada's Favourite Recipes and the All-New Purity Cookbook Pimentos and Piri Piri, The Ocean Wise Cookbook, and Quinoa 365 Healthy Starts Here, and The Power of Food Everyone Can Cook Everything, Everyday Kitchen for Kids, and Everyday Indian A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking, Soup, and The New Food Processor Bible A Taste of Canada, Flavours of Prince Edward Island, The Five Roses Cookbook, and Whitewater Cooks Halibut, Shellfish, Salmon, and Mussels Starting Out, Back to Baking, and The Best of Chef at Home. These days, the concentration of the list is on books on food and wine. Whitecap has always maintained a strong indigenous publishing program with West Coast books such as Michael Kluckner's Vancouver Remembered, The Curve of Time, Women of the Klondike, the children's books Storm Boy and Frog Girl, and A Pacific Alphabet and A, B, Sea. Also in 1987, Whitecap began distributing titles from the Australian Consolidated Press, the publishers of the world-renowed Australian Womens' Weekly Cookbooks, and soon after from other companies in the U.S. In 1987, our current publisher, Nick Rundall, joined Whitecap as a partner. Initially, Whitecap produced full colour titles, largely on differant parts of British Columbia, but soon expanded into gardening books and history books of local interest. In 1977, Michael Burch founded Whitecap Books in Vancouver, B.C. Our diverse list features high-quality, visually appealing books on food, wine, health and well-being, regional history, and regional guidebooks. About Whitecap Books Whitecap Books is one of Canada’s leading book publishers.
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