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SaturdayMay 289:30PM

Enjoy your meal: How food changes the world

90mins / 2010 / BELG/NETH
Canadian Premiere

Trailer n/a.

Throughout the year a world of food is lying on our plate and changes the world. Has our food, from being both a temptation for our taste buds and a source of social gathering, degenerated to a matter of conscience? 
Under what conditions is it being produced? Fish-breeding ponds polluting the environment, patches of bush being chopped down to have cattle grazing and beans also have their dark side: shortage of water in the region of origin.If we want to behave like conscious consumers we will have to clear a path through a minefield of moral choices and dilemmas.

Speaker Panel

Robert Clark

C Restaurant's Executive Chef Robert Clark began his culinary training at Ontario's George Brown College, graduating in 1982. Throughout his career he has trained with Canada's top chefs such as Jamie Kennedy, Michael Bonaccini and Mark Thuet. Clark now heads the culinary operations for C Restaurant, Raincity Grill and NU Restaurant & Lounge.

Clark's belief in food is pure and simple: “As chefs, our job is not only about serving great tasting food, but encouraging our staff and our guests to learn how to get sustainably produced food to the table.” Only quality, sustainable products from earth and sea are used as the building blocks of his cuisine. Clark has taken the same dedication to ingredients by creating the Contemporary Ocean Products line. The Contemporary Ocean Products is a gourmet line of Smoked Salmon, Crackers, Salts, and Spices that are a wonderful accompaniment to any meal.

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Ocean Wise is a Vancouver Aquarium conservation program, created to help restaurants and their customers make environmentally friendly seafood choices. The Ocean Wise label on a menu item assures you that item is a good choice for our oceans. January 2005 C restaurant launched the Ocean Wise program with the Vancouver Aquarium and is honoured to be the founding restaurant partner of the Ocean Wise program.