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Gail Hall
Gail Hall is a well-known Edmonton culinarian, chef, food activist, educator and consultant. Gail’s food apprenticeship began at the age of five, helping her mother cook for their family of five, as both parents worked. Gail loved the attention that came with serving her family food, although it wasn’t until many years later that she realized it was a passion.
After a 10-year career with the provincial government, Gail switched careers and followed her passion for cooking. For the next 18 years she owned Gourmet Goodies catering, a legendary award winning customized catering company in Edmonton that became one of the largest in Canada, employing 95 full and part time staff and generating over $3 million annually.
Gail now owns and operates Seasoned Solutions Loft Cooking School and Culinary Tours. Gail is passionate about sourcing local and regional ingredients and supporting our agricultural community. The cooking school is on the same street as the City Market on 104 Street. Students shop the market with Gail, meet vendors and purchase ingredients, which they then create into a scrumptious three-course meal, paired with Canadian wines. The cooking school is a popular venue for private special events and corporate team building afternoons.
For five years, Gail was the weekly food columnist for CBC radio 740 am/93.9 fm. For the past 23 years, Gail continues to teach cooking classes for Metro Continuing Edmonton and is a culinary presenter at special events such as Christmas in November at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge and is a regular speaker and presenter at conferences and conventions. Gail regularly cooks on CTV, BT City TV & Global TV.
Culinary Tours are another activity organized by Gail through Seasoned Solutions and include culinary regions of the US as well as Italy, New Zealand, the southwest of France, Greece and Turkey, Sicily, Chile and Argentina, South Okanagan Eastern Townships of Quebec, Vietnam and Cambodia, Charleston, SC. and Portugal. New tours include: Piedmont and Burgundy in October 2014, Peru in March 2015 and Portugal in October 2015. Gail also started culinary tours in Alberta: Smoky Lake and Gull Lake in 2013, Kitscoty in July 2014 and Medicine Hat in August 2014.
Contact Information:
[email protected]
www.seasonedsolutions.ca
phone: 780-437-0761
twitter: @cookeatenjoy
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