Linda Bramble is a Niagara-region wine educator and journalist who writes about wine and food travel.

Kevin Brauch, an international wine, beer and spirits expert, appears on TV as the Thirsty Traveler and on Iron Chef America. He’s happy to have had so many good meals this year. (See Kitchen Confidential for a look inside his fridge.)  

Rémy Charest has been writing about food and wine for over 10 years from his Quebec City home base and blogs with abandon on winecase.wordpress.com.  

Cinda Chavich is a food, wine and travel journalist based in Calgary. Her work appears in national newspapers and magazines, including The Globe and Mail, and she is a regular food columnist for CBC Radio.  

Jennifer Cockrall-King is a writer who splits her time between Edmonton, Alberta and Naramata, B.C., where she coordinates the Okanagan Food & Wine Writers Workshop.  

Ron Eade has been food editor at the Ottawa Citizen since 1998 and writes the popular blog Omnivore’s Ottawa at roneade.com.  

Liz Feltham, a food writer and former professional chef, was the long-time restaurant critic for The Coast, Halifax’s alternative weekly.  

Alison Fryer, the manager of The Cookbook Store in Toronto, has judged cookbook awards for IACP, the James Beard Foundation and Cuisine Canada and is a regular contributor to TV and radio.

John Gilchrist reviews restaurants for CBC Radio, writes about food for the Calgary Herald and has recently published his ninth guide to dining in the Calgary and Banff areas.

Gary Hynes founded, edits and publishes British Columbia’s bimonthly EAT magazine as well as eatmagazine.ca.  

Chris Johns is an award-winning food and travel writer whose work has been published in the Best Food Writing compilation. He has eaten his way across the country five times seeking Canada’s Best New Restaurants for this magazine.

Pierre Jury, the food columnist for Ottawa’s Le Droit, picks travel destinations based on food rather than beaches or museums.  

CJ Katz publishes savourlife.ca, Saskatchewan’s award-winning online food-and-drink publication. She is also the culinary host of CTV’s The Wheatland Café.  

Bartley Kives writes about politics, food and travel for the Winnipeg Free Press and is the author of A Daytripper’s Guide to Manitoba.

Marie-Claude Lortie has been at La Presse for 20 years. She’s both a columnist and a food critic, which means she covers current affairs between bites of poutine and foie gras.  

Barbara-Jo McIntosh runs her Books to Cooks shop in the restaurant hotbed of Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood. She has also judged cookbooks for the James Beard Awards.  

Sarah Musgrave is the casual dining critic at the Montreal Gazette and the author of the Montreal gastronomic guide Resto à Go-Go.

Heidi Noble, the author of Menus from an Orchard Table, runs JoieFarm in Naramata, B.C., with her husband, Michael Dinn.  

Charlene Rooke is the editor-in-chief of Western Living magazine. She received an honourable mention at the 2009 National Magazine Awards for her food writing.

Amy Rosen writes and illustrates the weekly Dish column in the National Post. She is currently at work on a culinary work of fiction.  

Mathilde Singer heads the food section for Montreal’s culture weekly Voir. She also manages the publication of the annual Guide Restos Voir.  

Michael Smith, the host of Food Network Canada’s Chef at Home and Chef Abroad, is an award-winning cookbook author and PEI’s Food Ambassador.  

Bill Spurr is the restaurant critic for Halifax’s The Chronicle Herald and a judge for Gold Medal Plates and the Canadian Culinary Championship.  

Chris Mason Stearns is a Vancouver-based writer and photographer whose work can be found in enRoute, Western Living and Vancouver Magazine.  

Margaret Swaine, whose columns appeared in Toronto Life for 25 years, is the weekly wine columnist at the National Post and a restaurant critic for Wine Access.  

Karl Wells is an award-winning food writer and restaurant critic for The Telegram in St. John’s. He also hosts the Rogers TV show One Chef One Critic. He has been a judge at many professional cooking competitions.  

George Wybouw launched the Atlantic Canada World Wine Festival and initiated the Slow Food movement in New Brunswick.