CULTURAL CHEF EXCHANGE

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 collaborations, MacLean has hosted more than 20 global and Michelin-awarded chefs in his restaurants in Calgary, from James Knappett, A Wong, Yoshihiro Narisawa, Mark Best, Amanda Cohen and Timothy Hollingsworth to name a few, and he travels often to cook and learn abroad. As a result, MacLeans restaurants to date have hosted more Michelin and worlds 50 best chefs than any other restaurant or chef in Canada.

World-renowned international chefs will continue to visit Calgary, Alberta, Canada as part of the Cultural Chef Exchange, an on-going initiative by Chef Darren MacLean in partnership with Food Tourism Strategies, to 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.

Throughout the Cultural Chef Exchange MacLean establishes narrative around Canadian food and products on an international level by collaborating with these incredible world-renowned and Michelin-starred chefs globally, to begin exploring Canada. Through their expression of Canada’s commodities, sharing and learning from one another, the Cultural Chef Exchange showcases Canada as a world-class culinary and also cultural destination.