Cuisine Canada Scene

Member Q&A: Ronald Doering

Ronald Doering is well known in the food industry having had the lead responsibility for setting up the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and serving as its President for several years. Since retiring from government in 2002, he practices regulatory law (particularly food law) in the Ottawa offices of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, and he [...]

Member Q&A: Julia Aitken

Julia Aitken has been a food writer and editor for more than 30 years. Her latest book is 125 Best Entertaining Recipes (Robert Rose). Julia lives in Toronto with her husband. What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains? Mains… Unless the dessert is the finest quality homemade ice cream. Who or what got you interested in [...]

Member Q & A: Pat Crocker

Writer, photographer, award-winning author, Pat Crocker from Neustadt, ON is passionate about food, gardens and herbs. She loves her work as a culinary herbalist and asks, “In what other profession would one be encouraged to wander alone in gardens; grow and cook with herbs; write about these and other culinary wonders, and tell others about [...]

Member Q&A – Julie Van Rosendaal

Julie Van Rosendaal is food writer, author, stylist and journalist. The food and nutrition columnist for CBC Radio One’s the Calgary Eyeopener, Julie contributes to the online cooking series, Good Bite,  co-hosts It’s Just Food on Viva Network and keeps readers updated on Dinner with Julie. She’s also the mastermind behind Blog Aid, a collaborative [...]

Member Q&A – Micheline Mongrain-Dontigny

Micheline Mongrain-Dontigny is a teacher, cookbook author, food historian and lecturer. She is also the author of the bilingual web site Les Éditions La Bonne Recette, a French-language blog Cuisiner avec Micheline Mongrain Dontigny and the coordinator of the Canadian Culinary Cookbook Awards. What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains? Really fresh fish and seafood, couscous, [...]

Member Q&A – Jeff Crump

Jeff is a Canadian chef who has developed his talents at a number of the world’s top restaurants; including The Fat Duck, Lumiere, Araxi, AGO and Chez Panisse.  He is a graduate of UWO, the Stratford Chefs School and is a Canadian Slow Food pioneer. He is currently the Executive Chef at the  Ancaster Old [...]

Dawn Thomas — Member Q&A

Dawn Thomas is the co-founder of Rouxbe. Rouxbe is the web’s first-ever Online Video Cooking School complete with practice video recipes, cooking exercises, culinary quizzes, progress reporting and personal chef support. We teach home cooks in over 180 countries how to become better cooks. Dawn leads the production team and is also the narrative voice [...]