Christine Couvelier

Christine Couvelier is passionate about food. She shares her passion and enthusiasm for food with everyone she works with. Christine is a Culinary Executive, an Executive Chef, and a Global Culinary Trendologist. Christine is the past Executive Chef of President’s Choice, the Director of Culinary & Beverage/Executive Chef at Cara Operations, and the Chair of The Chef School of George Brown College. She worked on Global Innovation for Unilever and was the first Director of Culinary Strategy at Maple Leaf Foods, where she worked on the vision, design & construction of the ThinkFOOD! Centre.
Currently Christine continues to educate, teach, and inspire her customers through her consulting company Culinary Concierge, with clients across North America.

Christine goes beyond borders & gets up close & personal with the food industry, to provide her clients with a better understanding of the marketplace & trends in the world food sector in order to help develop and sustain a competitive edge.

What’s a Culinary Trendologist? Christine tours the Globe to taste what is coming next, cooking with chefs, attending food shows, visiting greenmarkets and gourmet retailers. She develops her sought-after Trend Watch Report focusing on emerging, developing and existing trends.