About Us: Who's Who at Canadian Foodies

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Want to attend restaurant openings and special events in your town? Do you regularly write food-related reviews and posts for a blog or other online outlet? Send us a link to writing so that we can see what your writing style is like, and if it is up to our standards, we can add you as a syndicated blogger, and pass your posts along to our readership along with a link back to your main blog. We're always looking for guest articles and new regular contributors, so feel free to email us at: 2012@canadianfoodies.ca (See this page if you have products or a restaurant you would like us to review).

We also thought you might like a little insight into the people who are the core team.

Editor-in-Chief: Gayle Hurmuses

A supertaster with a lifelong passion for food, Gayle's training was at the elbow of her Grandfather and at the Broadcast School of the Galloping Gourmet. She made her first pie at 8 years old and was baking bread solo by 10. By 13 she was the occasional crew cook for a staff of 80, making platters of fried salmon for fish plant crews on overtime.

Raised in the middle of an ongoing party for 100, she regularly helped to cater the parties of her parents, seafood exporters with an active social/business networking life and large extended family. With prominent local chefs regularly guesting at family parties, Gayle grew up in an environment where food was celebrated and presented at a high level.

Click here to read more about Gayle and see her posts.

Contributor: Bill Wimberly

Bill has had a passion for all things food for over thirty years. He holds a culinary degree and served under a master chef for his baptism into the ranks of food professionals.

Bill has hands-on experience in restaurants, institutions, and food manufacturing operations. He has also served as Corporate Executive Chef for several restaurant and catering companies, and Plant and Operations Manager for several food manufacturing companies.

Click here to read more about Bill and see his posts.

Contributor: Gisela McKay

Gisela is both a born entrepreneur and a born foodie. Growing up in a restaurant with all the supplies and tools at your disposal will do that.

Gisela now is President and Chief Mastermind of pixcode - the company that created CanadianFoodies.ca, the CanadaEventsCalendar and NaturalHealthcare.ca (among other projects). In addition to overseeing the development and maintenance of this site, expect her to pop in as a guest columnist sharing new finds in restaurants, food products, and preparation tips.

Click here to read more about Gisela and see her posts.

Photojournalist: Mark S

Mark.S is very particular about food: he enjoys investigating the food chain to see where it comes from, finding new products as start ups, and is a firm believer in the Chinese philosophy that food is medicine.

Mark.S is known as The Handshake Guy: making connnections and contacts in motivation, health, green, the arts, & wealth. He does photojournalism for pixcode properties (CanadianFoodies.ca, CanadaEventsCalendar.ca, NaturalHealthcare.ca, and others) and freelance. He is a member of FACT and a former President of the Reflexology Association of Canada.

Editor: Frieda Audrey Luk

Frieda was born a foodie in Vancouver devouring wild salmon off the coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, organic produce, and asian fusion long before it was a fad.

A progeny of the liberal arts, further education brought Frieda to Toronto where she was, oddly enough, a Mcluhan fellow embedded in the Political Science department.

Her work has been featured in The Ubyssey, The Newspaper, The Tyee, Soulshine.ca and sexherald.com. Her current non writing preoccupations include Glad's Press'n Seal Wrap, Google tasks, and farmer's markets.