Jennifer Cockrall-King splits her time between Edmonton, Alberta, and Naramata, BC in the Okanagan where she eats, drinks, writes and teaches food writing courses. Her articles have appeared in Canadian Geographic, Maclean’s, the National Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Slow Canada, Homemaker’s and on CBC Radio among others. She posts them on-line at her website, when she manages to find a few spare moments. She is also the co-founder and the co-publisher of The Edible Prairie Journal, a print publication which began in 2004 and now continues on-line at www.edibleprairie.ca.
What’s your weakness? …

Rose Murray, an internationally published food writer, cookbook author, broadcaster and teacher. For more than three decades, she has appeared widely in magazines and newspapers such as Canadian Living and The Globe & Mail.
Rose lives in Cambridge, Ontario and is resident cook on Kitchener CTV’s Noon News. Author of ten cookbooks, her most recent is A Taste of Canada: A Culinary Journey.
What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains?
Mains.
Who or what got you interested in food?
I guess the first person was my mother on the farm, then Monda Rosenberg got …

Barbara Barnes is a freelance home economist living in Edmonton, AB. and sailing out of Sidney BC. She is the former manager of the ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen, the last gas utility home service department in North America, and has written over 20 cookbooks under their banner. She has just completed her last two cookbooks for the “Kitchen”. She continues to write columns for the Calgary Herald and is featured in bi-monthly food segments on the CTV Edmonton Noon news. She is a frequent contributor to the galley column in …

Karl Wells is a food writer and restaurant reviewer with The Telegram in St. John’s Newfoundland. He has hosted and produced many television food segments for CBC in the past two decades and currently hosts the popular Rogers TV programme, One Chef One Critic, seen throughout his home province. In addition to judging many culinary competitions, such as the upcoming Gold Medal Plates in St. John’s, Karl has served for many years as enRoute Magazine’s Best New Restaurants’ Newfoundland panelist.
What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains?
Mains. I love high flavoured braised …

A card-carrying carnivore and voracious vegetable lover, Heather Travis left life in the city for life in the country and now boasts an extensive rubber boot collection. Travis is the Public Relations Manager for the Beef Information Centre.
What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains?
Mains for sure, although I am sucker for apple pie – which in our house is classified as a breakfast main.
Who or what got you interested in food?
Both of my grandmothers – Polish on one side, Irish on the other – hence my extreme love of potatoes, they’re …

Nancy Hinton, Chef de cuisine, works at Les Jardins Sauvages, a country restaurant specializing in wild edibles just outside Montreal, She works alongside her partner, François Brouillard, a long time forager by profession and lineage. Her business card also reads Consultant, but only to cover all the other culinary odds and ends she does on the side, such as writing, teaching, menus… She spends most of her time in the kitchen, especially during the growing season.
What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains?
Definitely savory, not sweet. But it is not the main …

Dr. Amy Proulx is a happy-go-lucky food chemist and biologist, currently an NSERC research fellow with Agriculture and Agrifood Canada’s Guelph Food Research Centre.  When she isn’t blowing up perfectly edible things in her lab, she is usually found cooking perfectly edible things for her family and friends.
What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains?
Mains, with lots of spices, or cheese.  Unless it has chocolate.
Who or what got you interested in food?
I think my grandfather put me on the track that I am currently on.  He was a passionate gardener, herbalist, experimenter, …