All chefs select a film ahead of the festival and must create a dish that connects to it in some way. The star event is the Devour! Gala Dinner - a multi-course meal where each is paired with a short, food-related film. The following day brought the annual Chili Smackdown (a Rocky Mountain twist on the Nova Scotia festival’s signature Chowder Smackdown), where guests taste iterations of the comfort dish made by the chefs and vote on their favourite. Inside each, participating guest chefs cooked up an exclusive menu, such as a Bahamian feast with snow crab claws and conch fritters by Howell (on top of running Devour!, he’s the consulting executive chef at The Green Turtle Club in Abaco, Bahamas). The 2022 edition kicked off with a Cabin Crawl, taking festivalgoers inside a selection of the JPL’s Signature Cabins, from the rustic Viewpoint Cabin to the sleeker Stanley Thompson Cabin.
That festival is held annually in October, however, throughout the year, Devour! hosts satellite events around the world to promote the Nova Scotia festival, connect a community of chefs and, ultimately, change the way people look at the world of food through film.ĭevour! The Canadian Rockies is the largest of these satellite events.
The festival, one of the JPL’s signature events, is an offshoot of Wolfville, Nova Scotia’s Devour! The Food Film Fest, an event founded by chef Michael Howell and Lia Rinaldo in 2009. At Devour! The Canadian Rockies Food Film Festival, held at Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge (JPL), the eating begins shortly after checking in and continues through the entire weekend, with short films, workshops and self-guided mountain pursuits along the way.
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