Janine Bolton – Environmentally Accountable Foodservice

The Hospitality Headhunter presents – Why Green is good for business The green industry is growing at an incredible rate, and with the number of environmentally conscious consumers increasing, all areas of business are feeling the pressure to make more environmentally-friendly products, and green their operations. With economic hard times in the hospitality and restaurant industry, now is...

Harley Carbery’s Living the Life in Fabulous Las Vegas

  Hello from Las Vegas, The summer is over and the fall is here, not that the temperature has changed much for us here in Vegas!! Really?! 100 degrees in October?! With the change in the season comes a change in our likes and desires in food & wine.   We at Joel Robuchon Restaurants welcome truffle season with open arms, the amazing white truffles of Alba are now here and they are...

Patricia Koyich’s Calgary

October is almost half over…can you believe it???  I am sure having a difficult time knowing that this year has less than 3 months remaining!!! I am hoping that everyone had a great Thanksgiving and that you were able to spend time with those who bring joy to your lives all whilst enjoying a great meal and/or a perhaps a great glass wine? Mother Nature was surely on board this year, as all...

Philippe Grandbois’ Hospitable Opinion

  The change of the season brings many things in Canada. For me, like most, it starts with a bit of sorrow… A quick 25+, to 10+, to 0 degree temperature regression brings the variable sickness and flu season.. The notoriously shorter daylight hours makes for a conscience transition to “night” driving and early evenings. The final harvest of your garden, it will either be...

Chef Liana Robberecht’s Food Obsessions – Strudel

Strudel My father is a musician and growing up he introduced my sister and I to the world of musicals, West Side Story, Bed Knobs and Broom Sticks, Mary Poppins, Oklahoma and then… my one of my all-time favourites, Guys and Dolls. It was in Guys and Dolls where I first learned about strudel (true story, I swear).  The scene was when Nathan Detroit poses a bet to Sky Masterson at Mindy’s...