Jean Paré, author of ‘Company’s Coming’ cookbooks, dies in Edmonton at age 95 | 24CA News
An Alberta-born mom of 4 whose “Company’s Coming” cookbooks have change into ingredient-stained fixtures on kitchen cabinets around the globe has died at age 95.
An announcement from her household says Jean Paré died Christmas Eve in Edmonton.
Pare wrote over 200 cookbooks, starting with the discharge of “150 Delicious Squares” in 1981, adopted by different fashionable titles resembling “30-Minute Weekday Meals” and “5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Recipes.”
They’ve offered hundreds of thousands of copies in Canada, the United States, Australia and different world markets.
“She leaves a community of friends in both Edmonton and Vermilion, Alberta, as well as countless fans and readers around the world,” her household’s assertion stated.
Born in 1927 in Irma, Alta., Paré’s life in skilled cooking started, in accordance with the web site for Company’s Coming Publishing Limited, when she volunteered to cater the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Vermilion School of Agriculture, now Lakeland College, in Alberta in 1963.
Paré then had a profitable catering profession for almost 20 years earlier than launching Company’s Coming Publishing in 1980 along with her son, Grant Lovig.
“She was not a fussy cook at all. She liked to cook things that were easy to make and tasted great — that was the bottom line,” stated her granddaughter, Amanda Lovig Hagg, who labored for Company’s Coming.
“She was always available for a recipe question. When I first moved out on my own, I probably called her a few times a month… and she would taste anything I made.”
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Paré wrote and revealed cookbooks for 3 many years earlier than retiring in 2011.
According to her household, her passions exterior the kitchen included journey and serving to others in want — particularly girls. She liked to inform joke and couldn’t resist chocolate, typically consuming her dessert first.
Paré was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2004. She was additionally a collector of cookbooks, and donated 6,700 of them to the University of Guelph library’s culinary collections.,
Lovig Hagg stated her grandmother was at all times stunned each time she was approached by a fan or was acknowledged in public, and the conversations rapidly turned to recipes.
She stated her grandmother sponsored kids by means of Foster Parents Plan and World Vision Canada, and the 2 as soon as travelled collectively to Haiti to go to the youngsters they’d sponsored.
Paré was nonetheless residing independently in her personal suite in a seniors residence in Edmonton, Lovig Hagg stated, the place she nonetheless had her personal kitchen.
On the night time of Christmas Eve when Lovig Hagg bought the news her grandmother was gone, she bought her children to mattress, walked the canine after which went to the kitchen and commenced making “Breakfast Pull-A-Parts” from “Company’s Coming for Christmas.”
“I just felt better rolling that dough in the cinnamon and butter and having those cinnamon buns rise overnight for the morning,” she stated.
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