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.

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.

In a bid to address the growing challenges of feeding an ever-expanding global population, the spotlight shines on resilient cereals like millets as a promising solution. The International Year of Millets 2023 (IYM) was inaugurated with a resounding message at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Rodrigo was invited to the global event in Rome, in October 2023, to proudly represent Latin America and the Caribbean.

Rodrigo was featured on Everyday Heroes. Our team and our purpose always welcome the leverage that stories like these can provide.

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Recently nominated as one of the 50 Best Discovery, as well as featured in other mainstream channels such as CNN international, Bocavaldivia is constantly reinventing itself toward an active participant in the bigger project of the food forest, through crafting exclusive, intimate experiences in communion with the surroundings, lead by Chef Rodrigo Pacheco.

In November of 2018, Rodrigo was part of Netflix’s special “The Final Table” with his colleague Charles Michel. The duo performed beyond expectation in a high pressure, extremely competitive environment. Not only did they succeed in advancing through the contest to almost the final, but more importantly, they had a strong, consistent and clear message around the importance of awareness of food for the future.