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Michael Howell

Wolfville, NS, CANADA

Food movement, local economies, and culinary tourism

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Biography

Chef Michael Howell is one of Canada's pre-eminent leaders in the new food movement. Inspiration in the restaurant and foodisphere, the importance of local foods and local econmies as contributors to healthy communities, the possibilties of culinary, agri- and aqua- tourism as economic drivers, and and the relevance of food, (eating and growing it) to our sociological health

Industry Expertise (3)

Travel and Tourism

Hospitality

Restaurant/Food Service

Areas of Expertise (5)

Food

Local

Inspiration

Tourism

Small Business

Accomplishments (4)

Leader - Slow Food Nova Scotia (personal)

President - Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia (professional)

Taste of Nova Scotia - Member of the Year 2010 (professional)

Select Nova Scotia Local Food Hero 2011 (professional)

Education (2)

Dalhousie University: BA , Theatre 1983

Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago: Diploma (honours), Cooking 1995

Affiliations (1)

  • RANS, CCFCC, Chaine Des Rotisseurs, Slow Food

Sample Talks (1)

inspiring the local food community

small communities often over look the possibilites that reviving local small scale food production can offer a rebranding of an economy and the vibrancy and health of a region. Every one eats.

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