Cuisine Canada Scene

Member Q&A: Dana Ewart

Dana Ewart attended the prestigious Stratford Chef’s School in Ontario, where she completed her chef’s training with honours as well as an extensive pastry training program. After completing her formal education, Dana worked as the head of pastry and garde manger at the highly-regarded Avalon Restaurant in Toronto and under Normand Laprise at Toque! in [...]

Member Q&A: Fiona Lucas

Fiona Lucas is a food historian by inclination and training, co-founder of Culinary Historians of Ontario, and currently the Chair of the Canadian Culinary Book Awards sponsored by Cuisine Canada and the University of Guelph. She lives in Toronto. What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains? Desserts. I have a sweet tooth. Who or what got [...]

Member Q&A: Marilyn Rootham

New board member  Marilyn Rootham is the founder and CEO of  Rootham Gourmet Preserves. Back in 1983, Marilyn preserved the best produce from her acre home garden. What started as a home business is now a flourishing company with distribution across Canada.  Marilyn’s products have been featured in Chatelaine, House and Home, Toronto Life, and [...]

Member Q&A: Gail Hall

Gail Hall is a well-known Edmonton culinarian, chef and food activist and owns Seasoned Solutions Loft Cooking School and Culinary Tours. She is the weekly food columnist for CBC radio, regularly cooks up a storm on local television and is a guest speaker at conferences and workshops. For 18 years, Gail owned and operated Gourmet [...]

Member Q&A: Kelly Hughes

Food is the central focus and passion of Kelly Hughes’ life.  An alumna of the George Brown Culinary School, Kelly has worked in all aspects of the food industry but is particularly passionate about organic food, the local food movement and the movement of agriculture to a more sustainable food system. An accomplished chef, food [...]

Member Q&A: Jo Marie Powers

When Jo Marie Powers retired from the School of Hospitality and Tourism, University of Guelph, in 1998, as a volunteer activity she began the Canadian Culinary Book Awards. In the beginning this was a way of collecting cookbooks for the University’s culinary collection (now numbering more than 12,000 titles) and letting Canadians know who our [...]

Member Q&A: Karen Baxter

Karen Baxter, Brazilian born, from German immigrants, has now settled in Fergus, Ontario, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She has started her career in Business Administration, later completing her MBA at the University of Guelph with a specialization in Hotel and Food Management. Karen works as a Project Manager with Cuisine Canada [...]