Julian Armstrong is a cookbook author and food editor of The Montreal Gazette, Quebec's largest English-Language newspaper, and has been sited as one of Canada's finest food historians. She has been reporting on food in Canadian newspapers and magazines over 40 years and is the recipient of numerous journalism awards in both United States and Canada. She makes her home in Montreal, but spends much of her time tasting her way around the province
For a number of years now, culinary tourism journalist Michèle Foreman has been travelling Quebec’s country roads and those that run along the St Lawrence River in search of artisans, from food producers to processors, from chefs to innkeepers. She was awarded the Le Renaud-Cyr 2004 prize for her French-language collection, L’histoire savoureuse d’une région, which currently comprises four books. In giving her this special prize, the jury highlighted her commitment to understanding the importance of the partnership between chefs and food producers.