Festival Stages & Features


Good Food Festival 2008 Guide
Download a copy of the 2008 Good Food Festival Guide (3.1MB PDF)
CANADIAN LIVING LIVE!

Join the dynamic staff of The Canadian Living Test Kitchen for a free seminar on easy to elegant entertaining ideas. Meet our editors and food specialists in person and see them in action as they whip up delicious solutions to your everyday cooking challenges. Seminars will be on a first-come first-served basis, so come early!

For more of Canadian Living online, visit www.canadianliving.com

Food Network Get Cooking! Stage

Get Cooking and get inspired! The stage kitchen will be heating up with non-stop demonstrations and lessons from celebrity chefs and the authors of these fantastic cookbooks:

The Main – Food Network Canada, Anthony Sedlak
Dana’s Top Ten Table, Dana McCauley
Make it Tonight, Elizabeth Baird
Norene’s Healthy Kitchen, Norene Gilletz
Secret Ingredient, Whole Foods Market Chef
Complete Thai Cookbook, Linda Stephen
An Affair with Indian Cooking, Geeta Maini
Easy Gourmet Baby Food, Jordan Wagman
Complete Curry Book, Jennifer McKenzie
Everyday Gourmet Grilling, Ted Reader
The 2008 Firefighters Calendar, Toronto Professional Firefighters
Cuisinart, Chef Patrick Farrell

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Dairy Farmers Seminars
Learn how to organize a wine and cheese tasting at home with a free seminar courtesy of the Dairy Farmers of Canada. While you’re there, enjoy some of the finest Canadian cheeses available! Come early to avoid disappointment! Free seminars are on a first come, first serve basis.

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Food for Families Stage!

Learn how to make healthy choices for your family. Check out eating well with Canada’s Food Guide. See how easy it is to make healthy meals in your home.

Healthy eating is easier than you think! The Nutrition Experts at the Food for Families! Stage will give you tips, strategies and fun ideas on eating better using Canada’s Food Guide. Our tried and true recipes will have your family eating healthy, nutritious meals and snacks in a snap! Join us at the Food for Families! Stage for fun tips, prizes, samples and more.

Event Sponsors and Partners
• Dempsters • Fresh Vegetable Growers of Ontario • Health Check • High Liner Foods • Nutrisoya Foods Inc • Dainty Foods • Natrel

Ask A Professional Stage
Learn first-hand from the experts!

Get reliable, expert advice on a wide range of food and nutrition topics at the NEW Ask a Professional area. Cooking demonstrations and “Quick Bite” sessions from respected professional home economists and industry leaders will cover such topics as:

- Healthy eating on the go – savvy and sensible solutions for modern living
- Speed-scratch cooking – putting a healthy dinner together in real time
- How to read a food label
- Navigating the grocery store
- Packing healthy lunches is not just for kids
- Better baking – yes you can have healthy snacks

Event Sponsors and Partners
• California Walnuts • USA Rice • Bernardin • Chef Select • Egg • Foodland Ontario • Tetra Pak • Kikkoman

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Gimme 5 Stage

Colour yourself healthy at the Gimme 5 Stage

What is green, red, white, blue, orange and healthy all over? Your 5 to 10 daily servings of fruit and veggies of course! Visit the Gimme 5 stage to find out how this colourful new fast food craze is revolutionizing the way families eat for the better. Our feature presenters are full of colourful ideas that will have your whole family craving their 5 to 10 daily servings of fruits and veggies.

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Nature’s Source Live Better!

Nature’s Source is a natural dispensary, where you can find the country’s largest selection of high quality, high performance, natural supplement products. These are products you can use with absolute confidence, because every brand we carry is backed by evidence-based research and outstanding results, which we will be only too happy to provide for you.

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Oat and Barley: Come and Discover the Goodness Inside
Come back to basics with heritage grains that have been around for centuries. High in fibre, complex carbohydrates, protein, calcium, iron, magnesium and more, cereal grains are more than just breakfast. Our food-sampling menu will open your mind and fill your body with healthy, nutritious and tasty additions to the foods you already love. Join the Oat and Barley Council of Ontario at booth #341 and discover the goodness inside.

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Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet

Explore the world of Whole Foods Market! Savour tips on how to cook with the best natural ingredients. Learn how to appreciate the flavours and variety of each season by buying and eating local foods. Enter the Whole Foods Market Secret Ingredient Recipe Contest for a chance to win amazing prizes.

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Good Food for Second Harvest
Every day Second Harvest picks up excess fresh food and delivers it to Toronto social service agencies. 40% of their recipients are children. To ensure that there is Good Food for all, excess food from the Good Food Festival will be generously donated to Second Harvest. By reducing our environmental footprint and helping those in need, we believe this year’s Good Food Festival is better than ever!

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Dr. Oetker Ristorante Pizzas
Ristorante pizzas are the #1 thin crust pizza in Canada with 8 unique varieties to choose from!

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Milo
The world’s most popular energy food drink is now ready to serve in a handy Tetra pak.

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Natural Select Uncle Ben’s
Uncle Ben’s Natural Select rice is Canada’s only flavour infused long grain rice that cooks in just 10 minutes.

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Ontario Corn Fed Beef
Naturally great tasting and tender thanks to a mainly corn diet and premium cuts. Ask for it by name!

http://www.ontariocornfedbeef.com

Egg Farmers Ontario
For fast, delicious and nutritious egg recipes and meal solutions, visit us at booth 444 or getcracking.ca Eggs. Perfectly Real.
Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak produces and markets processing and packaging systems for liquid and solid foods. All Tetra Pak packages are recyclable for 80% of Canadians.

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