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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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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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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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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Renée Lavallée
Owner and chef The Canteen, 66 Ochterloney Street Renée Lavallée seems, at first glance, like a bit of a badass. She’s tiny and strong. She’s loud and she laughs a lot. Her big, fawn eyes are keen and observant. Her mouth slashes into a wicked grin at a moment’s notice. That first impression is wrong, […]