Rodrigo will attend the Cultural Chef Exchange in Calgary
Calgary’s Chef Darren MacLean, in partnership with Food Tourism Strategies, presents a year-long CULTURAL CHEF EXCHANGE to help further understanding of our culinary identity.
No stranger to collaboration, MacLean has hosted more than 20 global chefs -- such as Mark Best, Amanda Cohen and Timothy Hollingsworth – and travels often to cook and learn abroad. Most recently to Tokyo with World’s 50 Best Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa of his award-winning namesake restaurant. World-renowned international chefs will visit Calgary, Alberta, Canada throughout 2023 as part of Cultural Chef Exchange, a new year-long initiative by Chef Darren MacLean in partnership with Food Tourism Strategies.
Each month a different influential chef will visit the city and surrounding area to collaborate, learn and inspire. The exchange seeks to actively promote Alberta’s and Canada’s culinary background and cross-cultural character around the globe while learning about other country’s culinary cultures and practices.
Through the Cultural Chef Exchange MacLean establishes narrative around Canadian food and products on an international level by inviting incredible world-renowned and Michelin Star chefs from around the world to begin exploring Canada. Through their expression of Canada’s commodities, sharing and learning from one another, we showcase Canada as a world-class culinary destination.