Julie Van Rosendaal is a Calgary-based Canadian food writer. Her 2021 social media post about increasingly hard butter triggered the Buttergate scandal in Canada.
Van Rosendaal has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Parents Canada magazine, Western Living magazine and co-hosted the It's Just Food television program.[1]
In February 2021, Van Rosendaal drew attention to the increasing hardness of Canadian butter in what became known as Buttergate in a social media post.[2][3] In 2022, she hosted an online cooking class for 1,000 school students.[4]
She is the author of eight cookbooks[1] including Dirty Food[5] and Starting Out.[6]
Van Rosendaal lives in Calgary, Alberta with her teenage son.