A Conversation with Chef Michael Howell, Founder & Executive Director of Devour! Fest

The Healthy Menu

Welcome to a very special episode with The Healthy Menu x Devour! Food Film Fest. Hosted by Sonia Couto, today's guest is Chef Michael Howell, the Founder and Executive Director of Devour! Fest. Michael is also the consulting Chef at The Green Turtle Club in Abaco, Bahamas and for more than 25 years, he has been a leading chef across the United States, Canada, and The Bahamas. Michael owned and operated Tempest, an award-winning restaurant in Wolfville, NS. Michael has twice cooked at New York’s prestigious James Beard House. His cookbook, Atlantic Seafood, was runner-up at the 2010 Taste Canada awards that was recently re-released in an updated second edition. Michael is the former Co-Chair of Slow Food Canada and was honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2011 for his contributions to improving the food system for all. He was Nova Scotia Local Food Hero in 2010 and named Taste of Nova Scotia’s Culinary Ambassador in 2015. Devour! was awarded the 2017 Canadian Treasures award for Innovation in Hospitality by The George Brown Centre for Culinary Arts and in 2018 was awarded the Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia Culinary Ambassador Award.

The festival has become a destination for celebrities and notable chefs including Anthony Bourdain, Phil Rosenthal, Jacques Pépin, Dominique Crenn, Chuck Hughes, Sam Cass, Michael Städtlander, Normand Laprise, Michael Smith, Gordon Pinsent, Jason Priestley, Lidia Bastianich, and Bill Pullman. Each year, top chefs from across Canada and around the world collaborate on special dinners inspired by films. Devour! offers something for everyone with a roster of films at our host cinema, the Al Whittle Theatre, as well as food, film and beverage workshops, the Chowder Smackdown, the Great Devour! Community Supper in support of regional food banks, the Devour! The Street Food Rally and so much more.

This live is part of a three-part live series in collaboration with Devour! Food Film Fest. The Healthy Menu is brought to you by MenuSano. This episode was taken from a recorded live on October 18, 2022.

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Michael Howell: www.linkedin.com/in/michael-howell-23a6b015

Devour! Food Film Fest: www.devourfest.com

Sonia Couto: www.linkedin.com/in/soniacouto

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