PANELLISTS

WEST

Mary Bailey

The editor/publisher of Edmonton’s City Palate is co-author of two volumes of the Food Lovers Trail Guide to Alberta and writes for magazines.

Lori-Anne Charlton

This food and lifestyles writer in the wine-rich Okanagan contributes an Okanagan food column to CityFood in Vancouver.

Jennifer Cockrall-King

Splitting her time between Edmonton and the Okanagan wine country, this freelance food writer also creates www.foodgirl.ca.

John Gilchrist

This regular contributor to CBC Radio One and The Calgary Herald has written six books on Southern Alberta dining.

Gary Hynes

The founder and editor of British Columbia’s Eat (www.eatmagazine.ca) publishes the bimonthly magazine about Vancouver Island food
and wine.

Barbara-Jo McIntosh

The proprietor of Vancouver’s Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks sits on the James Beard Foundation’s cookbook selection committee.

Dave Margoshes

This restaurant review columnist for prairie dog magazine in Regina is also a former restaurant critic for Western Living .

Jamie Maw

The food editor of Vancouver magazine is also the editor of the book Vancouver Cooks .

Rhonda May

This IACP award-winning writer publishes CityFood magazine in Vancouver and contributes to WestWorld and Food & Wine .

Heidi Noble

This chef, winemaker and food writer runs Joie Wines & Farm Cooking School in Naramata, B.C., with husband Michael Dinn.

Shelora Sheldon

This freelance food writer and editor at Eat magazine has written for Western Living , CityFood , Food Arts and Vancouver .

Marion Warhaft

This long-time restaurant critic for the Winnipeg Free Press is also a sometime travel writer.

CENTRAL

Linda Bramble

This Niagara-region author of books and articles on wine and food travel gives radio tips that are syndicated across Canada.

Rémy Charest

The Quebec City restaurant critic for Le Devoir has been writing about food and wine for seven years.

Cindy Deachman

This Ottawa panelist publishes the quarterly Burnt toast (www.burnt-toast.ca), a quirky and fun food magazine.

Don Ellis

His Martiniboys.com online style guide to restaurants, clubs and other matters of urban survival covers Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Shinan Govani

The National Post ’s social-scene columnist loves getting a chance to eat a meal that is not off a napkin.

Madeleine LeBlanc

This foodie shares her dining-out discoveries as editor of the “Délices” pages of the Quebec City daily Le Soleil .

Marie-Claude Lortie

The lifestyle and food editor at La Presse in Montreal also reviews local restaurants for the newspaper.

Sarah Musgrave

A casual dining critic at The Gazette in Montreal, she is the author of cheap-eats guide Resto à Go-Go .

Alix Renaud

The food critic for the Quebec weekly Voir for the last decade, he is also a poet and novelist.

Amy Rosen

The author of Cook This , Spatopia and Generation Eats ate her way across Canada twice for enRoute .

Dick Snyder

A self-confessed “minor wine freak,” he is the editor of City Bites , Toronto’s free guide to food and drink.

Jean-Philippe Tastet

The restaurant critic for Voir in Montreal oversees its annual Guide Restos Voir .

Michael Vaughan

The National Post’s wine columnist is the editor of Vintage Assessments and director of the Food & Beverage Testing Institute of Canada.

EAST

Kyle Shaw

The editor of The Coast produces Halifax’s most trusted restaurant reviews and the city’s annual Food & Drink Guide.

Bill Spurr

This restaurant critic with Halifax’s Chronicle Herald wants to eat barbecued ribs in as many U.S. states as possible.

Michael Smith

This award-wining author and restaurant chef lives in PEI and hosts Chef at Large and Chef at Home on Food Network Canada.

Karl Wells

Along with producing www.karlwells.com, he does food items for CBC Television and reviews restaurants for The Telegram in St. John’s.

George Wybouw