Chef de cuisine, enVie, 5775 Charles Street You could call Lauren Marshall a Top Chef contestant. A vegan chef. A teacher. A holistic nutritional consultant. There are a lot of things that make her an incredibly creative force in Halifax’s food scene, but she’s not into labels. “What I love about what I do is […]
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Lia Rinaldo
Managing director Devour! The Food Film Festival As a teenager, Lia Rinaldo got a job at the legendary Wormwoods Dog & Monkey Cinema, which led to the Atlantic Film Festival. “All of a sudden I blinked and 20 years had passed. It was a life in film and I never really planned on it,” she […]
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Run this town
This time last year, Time published a cover feature titled Gods of Food that came under major fire, and rightly so, for its serious lack of women. It’s “pantheon” listed 13 “gods,” nine of which were men or groups of men, and its international chef family tree was 100 percent pure dude. In response, Eater […]
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Lil MacPherson
Owner The Wooden Monkey, 1707 Grafton Street and 40 Alderney Drive “It was an a-ha moment,” Lil MacPherson says. When Hurricane Juan struck Nova Scotia, a storm of concerns about food security hit her hard. “To me the very foundation of business, life, a province, a country is to make sure you have enough food […]
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Amber MacLean
Manager and server Morris East, 620 Nine Mile Drive A lot of people say that the secret ingredient to any great recipe is love, but for Jennie Dobbs and her Morris East restaurants, the secret to greatness just might to be Amber MacLean. With a decade of experience as a server under her belt, MacLean […]
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Liz Ingram-Chambers
Owner and manager, Le Bistro by Liz, 1333 South Park Street Liz Ingram-Chambers gets emotional when she talks about Le Bistro. “It’s my way of taking care of people, my way of making people happy.” After entering the scene as a server in college, she fell for the industry and the relationships she built with […]
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Ami Goto
Owner and chef Dharma Sushi, 1476 Argyle Street Ami Goto was hired as a server at Dharma Sushi five days after she arrived from Japan in 1998. It was her first foray into restaurant life and, in the beginning, just a way to pay her bills. Flash forward a few years and her boss, Hideki […]
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Sheena Clark & Kathy Cooper-MacDonald
Owners, Made With Local, madewithlocal.ca It didn’t take long for co-workers/gym buddies Sheena Clark and Kathy Cooper-MacDonald to take their friendship to the next level and become badass business parters, snowballing their “wouldn’t it be cool if” idea into Made with Local. They’ve gone from making granola bars for farmers’ markets in lobster pots in […]
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Five ways to do Devour!
Devour! The Food Film Fest is in full swing in Wolfville this weekend. It all started last night in Hollywood style with the festival’s big name, Anthony Bourdain, who was paid a Kardashian-ian appearance fee to get dropped into the middle of picturesque rural Nova Scotia just to be told how fucking great he is. […]
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Tis the seasonal brew
The leaves are crunchy, the air is musty and your proclivity for hibernation is now socially acceptable. As the days darken, so does the beer. But it also gets spicier, stronger and full-bodied. A few weeks from now, you won’t need an excuse to stay inside, but this year’s local brew harvest sure helps. Propeller […]
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We got the Beet
Four years ago Jamie Tingley moved to Cow Bay. “I moved here for the surfing,” says Tingley. “And then I kind of fell in love.” The object of his affection: farming. With his partner, Sarah Fisher, he started Off Beet Farm, a small-scale vegetable farm overlooking the bay. “We’d always had little garden plots,” he […]
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Thanksgiving Day fowl play
Every October, I get a phone call from my mother. “Are you making that turkey again this year?” That turkey is a cider-brined turkey, made according to a recipe I found in a magazine about eight years ago. It’s a turkey I have made for family and friends, and it has led me to believe […]
