About the Team
Culinary Team Canada
Culinary Team Canada pursues excellence in culinary arts, skills and craftsmanship in order to deservedly represent Canada as Culinary Ambassadors of a cuisine that is uniquely Canadian and reflective of the cultural diversity and agricultural abundance of our country.
Who They Are
Comprised of chefs from across Canada who have exhibited excellence in culinary skills, Culinary Team Canada members are chosen by their peers to represent our country, and are volunteers who participate in Team activities on their own time.
The members of Culinary Team Canada exemplify the best of our outstanding chefs and they represent our nation with passion and pride.
Culinary Olympics
The road to Gold begins long before the five-day competition in Erfurt, Germany in 2016. From the team selection process, through the countless hours of practice, fundraising events, logistics planning, and international lead-up competitions, Team Canada is committed and determined to bring home the Gold for Canada
Canadian Culinary Development
During competition on the world stage Culinary Team Canada demonstrates expert culinary techniques and abilities as well as unique creativity in showing to advantage the richness and diversity of our food products and multicultural food-ways.
In addition to their participation in international competitions Culinary Team Canada fosters partnerships with the food service and hospitality industry to their mutual benefit.
While competition provides a forum for Culinary Team Canada members to develop their professional skills in the company of master chefs from around the world, they take back to their workplaces the fruits of those experiences.
Team members enrich the food service, hospitality and tourism industries that support and play an integral role in the success of Canada’s culinary teams.
Mission, Vision & Values
Mission
Culinary Team Canada, through involvement in international competitions, fosters a vigorous presence and awareness nationally and internationally of Canada’s culinary resources to the benefit of its partners and supporters, the Canadian Culinary Federation and Canadian products. By developing a gold medal–ranked team to compete at the 2012 World Culinary Olympics, Culinary Team Canada perpetuates the international reputation for excellence of Canada’s chefs and hospitality industry.
Vision & Values
To express purity, freshness and simplicity in all of our preparations
To base our cooking methods on raw materials which spring from the excellent conditions of our climate, landscape and waters
To combine the demand for good taste with modern knowledge about health and well-being
To promote Canadian products and Canadian producers – and to disseminate the knowledge of the culture behind them
To promote the welfare of the animals and sustainable farming both in land and in the sea as well as in the wild
To assist in the development of new food processing methods
To combine the best Canadian cooking techniques and culinary traditions with new ideas and trends
To co-operate with all chefs and representatives of consumers, agriculture, fishing industry, food industry, retail and wholesale industry, researchers, teachers, politicians and levels of government to the benefit and advantage of the Canadian provinces