Laura Calder

About Laura Calder

Laura Calder is a Canadian chef. Calder was host of the James Beard Award-winning series French Food at Home, airing on Food Network Canada, The Cooking Channel, and other international stations.

Calder has written four cookbooks, including French Food at Home (2003), French Taste: Elegant, Everyday, Eating (2009), Dinner Chez Moi: The Fine Art of Feeding Friends (2011), and Paris Express: Simple Food from the City of Style (2014). French Taste was awarded the 2010 Taste Canada gold medal for cookbooks. She has also written The Inviting Life (2017) and Kitchen Bliss (2023). She is a judge on Recipe to Riches, a reality series on Food Network Canada, and has been a guest judge on both Top Chef Canada and Iron Chef America.

In 2011, the Canadian government announced that Calder had received the Order of Agricultural Merit from the French government, in the standing of knight.