Cuisine Canada Scene

Member Q&A: Chef Craig Flinn

Chef Craig Flinn is chef/proprietor of Chives Canadian Bistro in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Craig is an advocate of using local ingredients, cooking seasonally, and of creating a friendly, casual dining experience in his restaurant. What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains? I am good at conceiving dessert dishes, but lack the practice to always do them [...]

Member Q&A: Nettie Cronish

In her varied career as a chef, Nettie Cronish has been a health spa chef, the owner of a vegetarian frozen food company, and a recipe developer for products and websites.  A respected natural foods chef, teacher and cookbook author, she and her recipes have been featured in magazines, newspapers, on radio and television. For [...]

Member Q&A: Tom Littledeer

Tom Littledeer, of Carignan, Quebec, is the designer of Littledeer Mapleware Cooking Paddles, sold in fine independent cooking boutiques across Canada and at Williams-Sonoma stores in the USA.  His cooking tools are made of sustainable maple, and are manufactured with the help of 112 solar panels which power production at his shop. He strives for [...]

Member Q&A: Janet Kronick

Born in Montreal, Janet Kronick now lives happily in Hamilton Ontario, nestled within the world biosphere reserve and the Niagara escarpment. As the Historic Kitchen Coordinator at Dundurn Castle, with a  fabulous 2-acre Kitchen Garden, she enjoys educating visitors, eating local and historical cooking. What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains? Mains. I love dessert too, [...]

Member Q&A: Randy Cameron

When thinking of the best of Canadian food in Winnipeg, automatically thoughts turn to the Forks Market, where  Randy has been General Manager over the past 13 years, and has been instrumental in development of the new Canadian Marketplace.  Having owned three restaurants in Winnipeg, and past General Manager of Kildonan Place Shopping Centre in [...]

Member Q&A: Dean Tudor

Dean Tudor is Ryerson University Journalism Professor Emeritus and the author of  the book Finding Answers. He taught Canadian news media, law and ethics, and computer-assisted reporting and research. He has been writing about beverage alcohol and food since 1968. His articles and books were published in the USA by Libraries Unlimited, R. R. Bowker, [...]

Member Q&A: Margaret Demerson

Margaret Demerson was born and brought up in the east end of Toronto. She eventually moved East, graduating in Home Economics from Mount Allison University and Honour English from St. Thomas University.  She worked in the Food Services Branch of Canada’s Armed Forces in Canada and France, taught Home Economics in Lachute High School, Lachute, [...]