Michael Howell

  • Wolfville NS

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

Travel and Tourism
Hospitality
Restaurant/Food Service

Areas of Expertise

Food
Local
Inspiration
Tourism
Small Business

Accomplishments

Leader - Slow Food Nova Scotia

President - Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia

Taste of Nova Scotia - Member of the Year 2010

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Education

Dalhousie University

BA

Theatre

1983

Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago

Diploma (honours)

Cooking

1995

Affiliations

  • RANS, CCFCC, Chaine Des Rotisseurs, Slow Food

Sample Talks

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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