Five of the chapter’s seven-member leadership team are preparing to attend the biennial meeting of slow-food proponents from 153 countries and five continents discussing alternatives to the global food system. A focus of discussion at the fourth annual conference will be cultural and linguistic diversity.
The Montreal delegation includes: Bobby Grégoire, specialist in gastronomy, communications and events; Katerine-Lune Rollet, a social media manager and food columnist; Catherine Lefebvre, a nutritionist and food blogger; David Szanto, a PhD student in gastronomy at Concordia University and food studies instructor at Concordia, University of Gastronomic Sciences and UQÀM; and Cédric Fontaine, owner/operator of Terroirs Québec.
