The Pie Place Cafe Cookbook: Food & Stories Seasoned by the North Shore was the 2014 winner of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award in the general nonfiction category. The award was presented in a ceremony at the Kirby Ballroom at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. (L-R) Carla Powers, Duluth Public Library manager, author Kathy Rice, UMD’s Kathryn A. Martin Library Director Matt Rosendahl.
On May 22, 2014, a number of regional authors were honored to receive a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (NEMBA). Among the honorees was The Pie Place Cafe Cookbook: Food & Stories Seasoned by the North Shore by Kathy Rice of the popular local café.
The awards are given by the UMD Kathryn A. Martin Library, the Duluth Public Library and Lake Superior Writers. Nominations were evaluated in each of five categories: fiction, poetry, general nonfiction, children’s literature, or memoir and creative nonfiction. Reading teams chose a winner and honorable mention in each category. The winner in each category received a $200 cash prize and a beveled glass award as well as 100 NEMBA book seals.
The Pie Place Café Cookbook won first place in the general nonfiction category. Author Kathy Rice attended the festivities, which began with a book fair and dessert reception in the Kirby Ballroom and continued with the awards presentation. The celebration featured speaker, journalist and author Cathy Wurzer, host of Morning Edition for MPR news.
“You writers are a gift to the Northland,” Wurzer said. “Don’t ever give up.”
In the program describing the nominees, the reading team explains, “The Pie Place Cafè Cookbook: Food
& Stories Seasoned by the North Shore shows how food can pull a community together and teach us about what matters in life. Inside, readers will find mouthwatering recipes and pictures alongside vignettes that may have you packing up to move up the North Shore. This is a book of hope in which you will learn to laugh through your tears, take a chance on strangers,
and lend a helping hand to a neighbor.”
The wonderful North Shore cookbook can be purchased at The Pie Place and other shops in Grand Marais and on the North Shore or directly from publisher Lake Superior Port Cities, publishers of Lake Superior Magazine at www.lakesuperior.com or by calling tollfree 888-244-5253.
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