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Andréanne Tremblay-Lebeau
Registered Dietitian
Andreanne earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nutrition from the Université de Montréal. As a registered dietitian, she specializes in healthy weight management, healthy eating, nutrition education and cooking. She has shared her passion for food by contributing to the writing of the Québec Celiac Foundation cookbook in Montréal and by giving cooking workshops for primary school children and university students.
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Anik Lacasse-Richard
Fashion blogger
Anik has had a passion for fashion since she was a little girl. After pursuing her studies in photography at the cegep level and completing a DEC in fashion design, she worked for three years as an assistant designer for a Montreal-based company. She launched her fashion blog, Montreal In Style, in 2009. Since then, she’s been making a name for herself on the Montreal scene, as manager of the boutique Unicorn and blogger for several local names, such as Complexe Les Ailes and SweetspotQC.ca. She joins our team to offer up tips on how to live a healthy lifestyle and stay stylish.
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Anne-Julie Maltais
External Communications Manager at Danone Canada
Anne-Julie holds a Bachelor’s degree in communications from the Université Laval and she is currently completing her MBA degree. She has worked in a variety of sectors, from law firms to cinema and even Canada Grand Prix. Anne-Julie is the External Communications Manager at Danone Canada. It’s with great enthusiasm that she will share how this international company differentiates itself here with its social, corporate and environmental projects.
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Arapostathis Dimitris
Food Stylist
If your appetite was worked up by seeing a photo or video, it might be because of Dimitris. This Greek Food Stylist is passionate about crafting the perfect shot, and his credentials show it! For the past 15 years Dimitris has been busy working alongside top Film & TV production companies in Greece and abroad to create appetizing food and beverage pictures. Through his company arsfoodstyling.com, Dimitris has done mock-ups for the advertising campaigns of such major producers as Nestlé, Unilever, and Coca Cola. We’re proud to have counted his talent on our most recent Oikos TV commercial shoot in Greece.
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Axel van Weel
Sports Writer
Having been an all-around athlete all his life, practicing sports like windsurfing, surfing, snowboarding, running, tennis and fitness, Axel is always looking out for ways to stay fit and healthy. He writes for various lifestyle publications across the world, including Wallpaper Magazine, Surf Magazine and a variety of advertising agencies.
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Catherine Draws
Foodie blogger
Catherine comes from a food-loving family. In their home, deciding what’s for dinner carries about as much weight as, say, adopting an animal or buying a house. For a good time and to satisfy one’s needs (restaurants, good wine, outings), she works at Buvette chez Simone where she recommends wine to the customer. For the last two years she’s been the blogger behind ObsessionsGourmandes.com. She also writes about the pleasures of eating for several publications. Catherine is friendly, picky, good-natured, but not flaky, scatterbrained when the time permits, instinctive and, like the name of her blog, a bit obsessive.
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Corbin Tomaszeski
Canadian celebrity chef
Corbin Tomaszeski is a Canadian celebrity chef based in Toronto. He has over 20 years’ experience in some of the country’s finest restaurants. He is mostly known for his appearances on the Food Network shows Restaurant Makeover and Dinner Party Wars, as well as HGTV show “Crash my Kitchen”. He is currently the executive chef at The Royal Ontario Museum : which includes C5 Restaurant, Food Studio Café and C5 Catering service. Chef Corbin is currently working on many new projects that include his very own cookbook, restaurant consulting and a full-service catering business for his own company, Chef Corbin Inc.
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David Nathan
Freelance journalist
David is a freelance journalist who works for numerous French-language magazines and blogs (Québec Science, MSN, Canoe, La Presse’s XY magazine, Air Transat’s Atmoshphère magazine...). A huge fan of music, film and travelling, David’s versatility and curiosity are a welcome addition to any workplace. You can follow him on his personal blog at http://somanythingstodo.com.
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Emilie Perreault
Cultural journalist
When it comes to Quebec culture, Émilie Perreault is a jack of all trades, promoting it as a columnist, journalist and host. Banking on her strong linguistic skills and ease in front of the camera, she encourages potential tourists to come discover our cultural offering, via 98.5 FM, ARTV and the newspaper Voir. A big fan of documentaries, Émilie dabbles in her passion by conducting interviews with some of Quebec’s most interesting cultural figures.
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Emma Waverman
Mommy blogger
Emma is a freelance writer, blogger and co-author of the family cookbook Mealtime Survival for Picky Eaters and Families Who Love Them. She blogs candidly and with typos at embracethechaos.ca about modern family life. She is proud to be called a mom blogger and loves any excuse to talk to others immersed in social media – especially about her favourite topics: parenting and food.
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Martin Juneau
Chef and co-owner of Pastaga restaurant in Montreal
Martin Juneau is one of the shining stars of Quebec’s culinary scene. Gold-medal winner at the 2011 Canadian Culinary Championships – which earned him the title of “best chef in Canada” – Martin boasts an impressive body of work, having been at the helm of such reputable restaurants as La Montée and Newtown. Several months ago, he opened Pastaga on St. Laurent Boulevard, winning over local food critics. His culinary style is simple and innovative, brought to life by top-quality products. Although often inspired by the great classics of French cuisine, he enjoys revisiting recipes from his youth, not to mention fast-food options, all with a touch of humour. Martin is no stranger to the media world, having given radio, TV and print interviews, and co-hosted the cooking show “Et que ça saute” on V-Télé.
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Nathalie Guimond
Researcher, analyst and journalist
Nathalie has been working as a freelance writer and journalist for the past 10 years, writing visual arts pieces for publications including Voir, Ciel variable and Vie des Arts. She is also a scientific popularizer, writing about scientific news and developments in publications like Agence Science-Presse and Forum and making it more accessible to the everyday person.
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Nathalie Rivard
Web specialist, journalist and full-time foodie
Nathalie has more than 20 years experience working in marketing and communications, with a special interest in international cuisine. She has taken numerous cooking classes with internationally renowned chefs including Martin Picard, Philippe de Vienne and Elena Faita. Nathalie loves to stay active and is an avid dragon boat racer.
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Ned Bell
Renowned Vancouver chef
Ned Bell is a renowned chef based in Vancouver, BC. He is mostly known for his appearances on Food Network Canada’s “Cook Like a Chef.” When in Toronto, Ned was a regular collaborator to the popular show. Ned Bell always evolved in the restaurant industry. His culinary studies began at Canada’s prestigious, Dubrulle Culinary School, where instructor Rob Feenie inspired Ned to follow him to Le Crocodile. Flourishing as an apprentice under Feenie and Vancouver culinary legend, Michel Jacob, Ned next moved up as Sous Chef for the opening team of Lumiere, a restaurant that put Vancouver on the global culinary map. Since 2010, he is the executive chef of the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver, where he is in charge of the Food & Beverage department for the hotel and the restaurant, The Yew.
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Rob Rossi
Chef and ownerof the restaurant Bestellen Toronto
Chef Robert Rossi started cooking at the age of 16. His skills and expertise in the kitchen were not extracted through the conventions of culinary school, but rather through the tireless hours of making his way up the ranks in some of the best kitchens in Canada. Rossi’s most notable early mentions were his stints in the kitchen at; Canoe, Habitat and served as the Executive Sous Chef at the Kensington Riverside Inn in Calgary. Soon after leaving Riverside Inn he began his role as Corporate Chef at the Mercatto Restaurant Group in Toronto. Rossi was also fortunate to place runner up in Top Chef Canada Season One. In the fall of 2011 Rossi opened Bestellen restaurant in Toronto. The inspiration behind Bestellen is “made by hand”, something that the European tavern has become known for. Watch for Chef Rob’s new show “Opening Bestellen” which begins airing on TLN in October of 2012.
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Sandy Braz
Fitness and lifestyle writer, blogger and editor
Sandy is a magazine writer and editor, blogger and yoga lover working in Toronto (and sometimes Paris). She is the co-founder of Yoga in Motion, which is a Toronto-based charity event for breast cancer, and has had hundreds of articles published on the topics of health, fitness, lifestyle, food and yoga, both in print and online. Sandy writes daily at http://reinventingsandyb.com.
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Sue Riedl
Trained chef and food journalist
With a lifelong passion for food, Sue trained at the Cordon Bleu cooking school in London, England. She writes a bimonthly column on artisanal cheeses, The Spread, for The Globe and Mail and is the writer and producer of Chef Basics, a food video series for The Globe and Mail website.
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