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Welcome to a very special episode with The Healthy Menu x Devour! Food Film Fest. Hosted by Sonia Couto, today's guest is Chef Michael Howell, the Founder and Executive Director of Devour! Fest. Michael is also the consulting Chef at The Green Turtle Club in Abaco, Bahamas and for more than 25 years, he has been a leading chef across the United States, Canada, and The Bahamas. Michael owned and operated Tempest, an award-winning restaurant in Wolfville, NS. Michael has twice cooked at New York’s prestigious James Beard House. His cookbook, Atlantic Seafood, was runner-up at the 2010 Taste Canada awards that was recently re-released in an updated second edition. Michael is the former Co-Chair of Slow Food Canada and was honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2011 for his contributions to improving the food system for all. He was Nova Scotia Local Food Hero in 2010 and named Taste of Nova Scotia’s Culinary Ambassador in 2015. Devour! was awarded the 2017 Canadian Treasures award for Innov