Ottawa Foodies

I graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute in Ottawa in March of 2007. Since then I have been kicking around in various restaurants building my kitchen experience resume. I recently moved from Ottawa to Regina SK, so I'm not technically an "Ottawa" Foodie anymore, but I like the forums here so much that I'm still a regular visitor of the site. I work at Zest restaurant in Regina, which is casual fine dining. I'm lucky enough to be working for a chef right now who has an international reputation (he has personally cooked meals for the Al Fayeds if you can believe it!), so I kinda lucked out with this job, seeing as the pickin's in Regina are a little slimmer than in Ottawa in terms of landing interesting restaurant gigs.

I have a weakness for good cheese, good procuitto, and good wine. Lately I've been interested in ukrainian fodder, such as perogies, keilbassa, cabbage rolls and saurkraut - it comes with the territory of Regina lol.