Bestselling Canadian cookbook author Jean Paré dies at 95
December 27, 2022 by DarcieOne of Canada’s most prolific and beloved cookbook authors, Jean Paré, passed away in Edmonton, Alberta this week at the age of 95. Beginning in 1981 with the publication of 150 Delicious Squares (Company’s Coming) through 2018, when she co-authored Instant One-Pot Cooking (New Original), Paré wrote 200 cookbooks.
Paré ran the three-generation publishing business called Company’s Coming. “My grandma loved to cook and it didn’t have to be fancy food, it was just good food. And she was always really good at catering to her specific guests,” her granddaughter, Amanda Lovig Hagg, told CBC News. Paré started her lifelong love of cooking as a young girl after she and her sister divvied up the household chores. She launched her food writing career after she had started a successful catering company following her first divorce.
After her catering gigs, people would ask her for the recipes. She dutifully handwrote the recipes until one day when her son said she needed to quit the catering business and start writing cookbooks instead. Paré started in 1981 and wrote a string of bestselling books for the next 40 years. She retired in 2011 (save for a reprise in 2018 as noted above), and it’s estimated that in that time over 30 million copies of her books were sold.
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