Liane Faulder is The Journal's food columnist and appears in the Food section on Wednesdays, as well as on her blog, Eat My Words, named Best Regional Blog in Canada in 2010 by the Canadian Food Bloggers Association.
Since joining the Edmonton Journal more than 20 years ago, Liane has been a life columnist, city columnist and television critic, as well as a senior feature writer for the paper's weekly flagship feature section, Sunday Reader. A graduate of Ryerson University's school of journalism, Liane has worked at CBC radio and CBC television and has been a regular contributor to CBC radio in Edmonton, as well as to the CBC's syndicated national service.
She appears every other Friday on CBC radio's afternoon show, Radioactive, to talk about food culture in Edmonton.
An award-winning reporter, Liane's features have been published in Today's Parent, Venture and Chatelaine magazines. In 2007/08, Liane was awarded the prestigious Canadian Journalism Fellowship at Massey College, University of Toronto. In 2007, Liane's first book, The Long Walk Home: Paul Franklin's Journey from Afghanistan, was published, chronicling the inspiring recovery of an Edmonton soldier who lost two legs in a suicide bombing. Her personal essay, About the Boys, was published in 2006 in the best-selling Canadian anthology, Dropped Threads 3.
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