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 [...]

Case Study: Chives Canadian Bistro

On March 1st, more than 400 chefs, food writers, food and beverage experts, restaurateurs and leaders in the hospitality field gathered at the Terroir Symposium in Toronto. While sessions ranged from steak tasting to social media, branding to (not surprisingly) terroir, the day opened with The Art of Hospitality. Chris McDonald of Toronto’s Cava Restaurant started [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Okanagan Food & Wine Writer’s Workshop 2010

With hundreds of world-class wineries, and increasingly home to a number of Canada’s best chefs, the Okanagan Valley is a top global food and wine destination. It’s also now host to the Okanagan Food & Wine Writers Workshop, based out of Penticton, British Columbia, a two-and-a-half-day workshop with professional development seminars open to writers of [...]

What’s New in Manitoba Food?

There’s a stereotype that all the excitement in the Canadian food sector lies in a few locales.  That’s wrong – there are delights to be found across the country and  good things are cooking in Manitoba — or are being served up in their raw, marvelous, unprocessed glory. Here’s a quick rundown of some of [...]