Calgary Eats

Gail Norton is the co-owner of Calgary’s culinary hub The Cookbook Co. Cooks, a specialty cookbook, food and kitchenware store and cooking school. A lifelong Calgarian with deep and sprawling roots in the local food community, Norton is the former publisher of City Palate magazine, a judge for Taste Canada and co-author of Calgary Cooks, Dishing, Double Dishing and Cooks in My Kitchen. She lives in Calgary. Karen Ralph moved to Calgary in 1979 and earned a BFA from Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD). A freelance writer, she is also a food and wine instructor at The Cookbook Co. Cooks and organizer of the wine tours for its annual food and wine camps in the south of France (she has travelled to France 22 times—and counting). As well, she is a long-time contributor to City Palate, a self-titled roving ambassador for Metrovino, and co-author of Calgary Cooks. A lover of food, wine, and cooking, Ralph lives in Calgary.