The Food Professor

By Michael LeBlanc, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

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Join Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax with host Michael LeBlanc as they look at the hot issues in the food, foodservice, grocery and restaurant industries. We'll discuss proprietary industry and consumer food related research, check out fresh new ideas and talk about half baked strategies. Presented by Caddle. © 2020-2024 M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Episode Date
The Philosophy of Boycotts, McDonald's Results Miss & guest Chamali Kodikara, University of Manitoba Ph.d Candidate & IFTSA Board of Directors
May 02, 2024
Food Safety & Affordability Research, Shrinkflation Signage, California Fast Food Wage Impacts & Tanner Townsend, Uncle Bob's Popcorn Kernels
Apr 25, 2024
Food & the Federal Budget, Breakfast Breakdown and Exclusive Edible Cannabis Research with Colleen Martin, Caddle
Apr 18, 2024
Stats Canada Food Fight, $ US1.4 Trillion Farm Bill, Rib Robots and guest Ian Lee, Associate Professor at Carleton University | Sprott School
Apr 11, 2024
New School Food Program Gets The Grade, Olive Oil Squeeze, Avian Flu Dairy and guests James Crosby & Lori King, Crosby Foods
Apr 04, 2024
Bad Shrimp, Fungus Frustrated Easter Bunny, One Million Canadians on GLP-1s and Guest Chef Charlotte Langley
Mar 28, 2024
Cattle Futures, Vegas Restaurant Bifurcation, the state of food inflation, Carbon Tax Nation, and special guest Michelin star chef, Irish restauranteur, JP McMahon (R)
Mar 21, 2024
Where's The Beef (from)?, Did Aldi Even Take the Call, and our first Caddle Rapid Response Survey: Ungraded Mexican Beef on Canadian Shelves
Mar 14, 2024
Cookie Monster Hates Shrinkflation, Growing Global Obesity, and Global Hunger with guest Paul Hagerman, Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Mar 07, 2024
Let Them Eat Cake and Corn Flakes, Dynamic Dumpster Fire & Special Guest Colleen Martin, Caddle
Feb 29, 2024
Let Them Eat Lobster (please), Grocery Shopper New Insights, and guest Ori Cohavi, Co-founder & CTO of Remilk
Feb 22, 2024
Farmers Fight the Great Divides, Tim Horton's Scores in Seconds, and Free Trade(ish)
Feb 15, 2024
Testy Testifying, Groundbreaking Remilk Gets Approval, Athletic Brewing Swifty Superbowl and guest Doug Alexander, VP Sustainability and Government Relations, Belmont Food Group
Feb 08, 2024
Dialling for Discounters, Lessons from European Farmers & guest Top Food Industry Lawyer Glenford Jameson
Feb 01, 2024
Enjoy Today Discounts, B.C. Chicken Takes Flight, & The Art & Science of Innovation with guest Bettina Hamelin, President and CEO of Ontario Genomics
Jan 25, 2024
Kingston Chinese Milk Plant exclusive, Celebrating Matty's Emmy & guest Alison Sunstrum, Visionary Ag VC
Jan 18, 2024
2024 Food Industry Predictions, Relative Danger and our guest, Aeryon Ashlie, Founder and CEO of Aeryon Wellness Support Supplements
Jan 11, 2024
Special Encore Interview Episode: Guests Isaiah Robinson, Kitasoo Xai'xais Nation, Stephanie Columbo, Canada Research Chair in Aquaculture, & Tim Kennedy, Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance
Jan 04, 2024
Special Encore Interview Episode: Special Guest Sam Zien, aka "Sam The Cooking Guy"
Dec 28, 2023
Canadian's Food Priorities, Food Fights in Parliament, and guest Kristina Farrell, CEO, Food and Beverage Canada - Aliments et boissons Canada
Dec 21, 2023
(More) Death by Cantaloupe, McDonald's Cos-play, Fast Food Crime & Punishment, and guest Pierre Petelle, President & CEO, CropLife Canada
Dec 14, 2023
Bon Cop, Bad Cop28, Inside Canada's Food Price Report '24, guest Alex Green, Chief Experience Officer, Longo's
Dec 07, 2023
Deadly Balls of Poison, Weight Watchers Got It Wrong, The Death of Irony, Remembering George Cohon and guest Kelly Higginson, President and CEO of Restaurants Canada
Nov 30, 2023
The Senate Fiddles while Farmers Burn, China Seafood Slave Plants Hit Home, plastic a go-go & guest Vanessa Toperczer, Senior Vice President, IMI International
Nov 23, 2023
Loblaw Gets Small, Metro Goes Big, Beer Retail Gets Frothey & guest Rick Brown, President of Foodservice at Circana
Nov 16, 2023
Restaurant Reconning & Renaissance, guest Lisa Richardson, EVP & COO of Canterbury Coffee
Nov 10, 2023
Beef with the Bank, Farewell to a Poutine Legend, and guest Gordon Bacon, CEO Emeritus at Pulse Canada
Nov 02, 2023
The Blue Economy, TrickFlation, Canada in a Pickle, and Guest Grocery Legend B.K. Sethi
Oct 26, 2023
Cannabis 5 Years Later, The Less-Than Mighty Mississippi, Feeding Canadians is a SNAP and Special Guest Chef Ricardo
Oct 19, 2023
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Dairy Drama & Special Guest Kirstin Beardsley, CEO at Food Banks Canada
Oct 12, 2023
Manitoba's Opportunity, Canadians Shift Their Grocery Habits (again), and Special Guest Marie-Eve Fournier, La Presse
Oct 05, 2023
Ottawa Cost of Living Summit: The Sequel, Gotta Be KD Cancelling Restaurant Reservations, and Ag Tech Entrepreneur Gregg Curwin, President & CEO at Novagevity
Sep 28, 2023
Behind the Scenes of the Ottawa Grocery Meetings, Ag Trade with India, and The Fantastic World of the Portuguese Sardine
Sep 21, 2023
Get Ready for Season Four of The Food Professor Podcast!
Sep 18, 2023
BONUS EPISODE live from SIAL 2023: Isabelle Marquis, Senior Food Strategist & Linda Fox, Regional Innovation Director, Canadian Food Innovation Network
Sep 07, 2023
BONUS EPISODE live from SIAL 2023: Birendra "Jopy" Perera, Marketing Director at Mlesna Ceylon & Gail Gastelu, Owner, Publisher at The Tea House Times
Aug 31, 2023
BONUS EPISODE live from SIAL 2023: Silvio Serrano, House of Exte
Aug 24, 2023
BONUS EPISODE live from SIAL 2023: Deolinda Silva, Executive Director at PortugalFoods
Aug 17, 2023
BONUS EPISODE live from SIAL 2023: Santiago Espinosa, CEO Todos Comemos & Retail Guru Carl Boutet
Aug 10, 2023
BONUS EPISODE live from SIAL 2023: U-Luv Cookies Founder Debbie Tartarini
Aug 03, 2023
BONUS EPISODE live from SIAL 2023: ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA
Jul 27, 2023
BONUS EPISODE LIVE FROM SIAL 2023: Gurth Pretty, Master of Cheeses
Jul 20, 2023
BONUS EPISODE LIVE FROM SIAL 2023: Tracy Bell, Co-founder + CEO, Millennia Tea
Jul 13, 2023
BONUS EPISODE: Richard Dillon, CEO of Ivy Farm Technologies Cultivated Meat, Fresh From Toronto's Collision Conference
Jul 06, 2023
Parliament's Grocery List, Interactive ShrinkFlation, and guest Felix Cheung, Founder and CEO of IXON Food Technology
Jun 22, 2023
The Local Food Paradox, Taxing Joy and Guest Chuck Hughes, Celebrity Chef, Restauranteur, Entrepreneur
Jun 15, 2023
BOC Rate Hike Implications, Baby Formula Fiasco and guest Sheena Russell, CEO, Made with Local
Jun 08, 2023
Food Inflation Government Meddling & Aquaculture Controversy in BC with Guests Isaiah Robinson, Kitasoo Xai'xais Nation, Stephanie Columbo, Canada Research Chair in Aquaculture, & Tim Kennedy, Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance
Jun 01, 2023
AI & Food, Soulless QR Codes & Spice Queen Shivani Dhamija, Shivani's Kitchen
May 25, 2023
Cold War II & Ag Trade, BBQ Season Trends, and Guest Vince Sgabellone, Foodservice Industry Analyst, Circana
May 18, 2023
Gene Splicing Policy, Backyard Chickens, and our Guest Quebec Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food André Lamontagne
May 11, 2023
Lab Grown Dairy Heads to Israel, Milk Chasing the Stanley Cup, and our guest Dickson Delorme aka Quick Dick McDick
May 04, 2023
Politics & Protein, F-Oatly, and Plant-Based Consumers with Colleen Martin, CRO at Caddle
Apr 27, 2023
Cloned China Cows, Texas Dairy Goes Boom and Canada's High-Holiday
Apr 20, 2023
AI Inflation Cookbook, Bottom Feeders & Katie Hotze, CEO of Grocery Shopii
Apr 13, 2023
With Friends Like the Ag Minister, Grocery Perceptions and guest Jake Karls, Co-Founder & Rainmaker of Mid-Day Squares
Apr 06, 2023
Snack Attack, Hail to Peace By Chocolate, and Barry Murchie, President & CEO, TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture
Mar 30, 2023
Special Dairy Rapporteur, We Scream at Ice Cream, & Susan Krashinsky Robertson, The Globe & Mail
Mar 23, 2023
Grocery CEO Awards, Brand's Blind Eyes, and Tom Margeson, Superfruit Purée
Mar 16, 2023
When Pigs Fly, Eat Just Less, TikTok Foreign Food Influence & Vince Breton, DuBreton
Mar 09, 2023
RBI Double Tap, Advice to Parliamentarians, Sleep Cereal & Kristjan Hebert, Hebert Grain Ventures
Mar 02, 2023
Ukraine One Year Later, Beer Taxes, RBI Double Double Trouble, and Michael Burgess, CEO of Nerpy's Hot Sauces & Marinades
Feb 23, 2023
Worlds Top Sommelier, Parliamentary Ag Committee Act II, and special guest Michelin star chef, Irish restauranteur, JP McMahon
Feb 16, 2023
Dairy Dumping Dilemma, Pizzagate, Cash Crunch and our guest Shabnam Weber, President of the Tea and Herbal Association of Canada
Feb 09, 2023
The Ethics of Stealing Food, Canada's Croissant Game, and Guest Josh Tetrick, CEO of Eat Just Inc.
Jan 26, 2023
Nobody Here But Us Chickens, 2023 Predictions and Canada's largest farmland owner, Robert Andjelic
Jan 12, 2023
The Top Food Story of 2022, Russian Fertilizer Tariffs, COP15, & Special Guest Sam Zien, aka "Sam The Cooking Guy"
Dec 22, 2022
Food Inflation 2023, Sylvain Testifies and Special Guest Kelly Long, CEO, Noble Premium Bison
Dec 08, 2022
Bonus Episode: Christine Cruz-Clarke, CEO, Balzacs Coffee
Dec 01, 2022
Loblaw Scores with Price Freeze, Dairy Farmers Score with the Leafs, Lab-Grown Scores FDA Approval and Special Guest Kate Burnett, President, Bridgehead Coffee
Nov 24, 2022
Bonus Episode: Benjamin Tal, Deputy Chief Economist, CIBC
Nov 21, 2022
Taking Greeds Measure, Cyber Troubles and Special Guest David Carsley, Head of Industry, Google
Nov 10, 2022
Price Freeze's Big Week, Big Grocery Merger, and Special Guest Yanick Gervais, Olymel's CEO
Oct 27, 2022
Ottawa's price gouging investigation, supply chain task force report and special guest Jane Dummer
Oct 13, 2022
Living in the Eye of the Storm and Special Guest Peter McLaughlin,  President at ANNE of Green Gables Chocolates
Sep 29, 2022
Season Three Premier With Special Guest Tamara Rebanks with the Homegrown Innovation Challenge
Sep 15, 2022
Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards Finalist Bonus episode: Meet Karen Proper, Sr. Product Developer, Maple Lodge Farms
Sep 08, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Meet House of Exte, Premium Olive Oils and Balsamic Vinegars
Sep 01, 2022
Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards Finalist Bonus episode: Meet Paula Deane, Director, Corporate Brands Product Development at Metro Inc.
Aug 25, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Meet Patrick Griffin, The OAT Company
Aug 12, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Meet Laurent Dallaire, CEO Innodal
Aug 11, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Meet Isabelle Marquis, Food Strategist
Aug 10, 2022
Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards Finalist Bonus episode: Meet Mary Peluso, Director, Private Label Grocery, Sobeys
Aug 02, 2022
Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards Finalist Bonus episode: Meet Jim Delsnyder, COO, Zoglo's
Jul 26, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Meet Sylvain Roux, CEO, and Philippe Begin, VP, Dauphinais
Jul 21, 2022
Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards Finalist Bonus episode: Meet Rob Sengotta and Landon Kroeker, Von Slick's Finishing Touch
Jul 12, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Meet Gurth M. Pretty, SIAL Cheese Ambassador, Lakeview Cheese Galore
Jun 30, 2022
Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards Finalist Bonus episode: Meet Manisha (Mistry) Nagar, Private Brands Product Development Manager - Health & Wellness, Consumables, Baby & Pet, Walmart
Jun 27, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Meet Natasha Vandenhurk, CEO at Three Farmers Foods
Jun 23, 2022
Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards Finalist Bonus episode: Meet Mike Primucci, Mimi Foods
Jun 20, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Shawn Leggett, President/Founder at GroundUP Eco-Ventures
Jun 16, 2022
Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards Finalist Bonus episode: Meet Scott Spencer, Chief Operating Officer at Island Abbey Food Science Ltd.
Jun 13, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Pierre-Yves Cote, President of Vivanda Boreal
Jun 09, 2022
Live at Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards with Darell Jones, President Save-On-Foods, Margaret Hudson, CEO Burnbrae Farms & Friends
Jun 02, 2022
Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards Finalist Bonus episode: Meet Tracy Bell, Co-founder, Millennia TEA
May 25, 2022
Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards Finalist Bonus episode: Meet Paige Wolfe, Peace River Honey
May 19, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Jacqueline Day, Founder & CEO, Real Treat Kitchen Ltd.
May 17, 2022
Live from the Restaurants Canada Trade Show Floor in Toronto
May 12, 2022
Live from the Montreal SIAL Food Innovation Show: Meera Sunny, Director of Research & Development and Ingredient Sales, CanMar Foods
May 05, 2022
SIAL Honeymoon, Avian Flu Takes Off, Gardening and Garden Analogues, and Trying Stuff with PuraVida [poo-da-vee-da]
Apr 28, 2022
Federal Budget Missed Opportunities, Exclusive Interview with GURU CEO Carl Goyette, and Trying Stuff with PEI's Superfruit PUREe
Apr 14, 2022
Stats Can's New Plan, Meat Processors in Quebec Court, our exclusive interview with Lyne Castonguay, President, Dairy, Saputo USA
Mar 31, 2022
Fertilizer Wars, Food Brands in Russia, Shelflation, our interview with Richard Scofield, President St-Hubert & Trying Stuff with Cowboy Coffee
Mar 17, 2022
War Comes to the Global Food Supply Chain and Trying Stuff with Viveau
Mar 03, 2022
Assessing Trade Damage, Inflation Nation, Special Guest Xavier Poncin from SIAL and Trying Stuff with GoGo Quinoa
Feb 17, 2022
Rating the Health of the Food Supply Chain, Shelflation, Dana McCauley from the Canadian Food Innovation Network, and Good Food For Good on Trying Stuff
Feb 03, 2022
Supply Pain at the Border, Life on the Grocery Line with Author Adam Kaat, Trying Stuff, featuring Silver Swallow Luxury Kombucha!
Jan 20, 2022
The Top Food Industry Stories of 2021, plus Trying Stuff featuring JUST Egg
Dec 23, 2021
Canada's 2022 Food Price Report, Nourish 2022 Food Trend Report, and Trying Stuff with Cracker Barrel Signature Shredded Cheese!
Dec 09, 2021
Misunderstanding Salmon, Special Guest Cory Mintz and his new book The Next Supper, and a super episode of Trying Stuff with Sprague Soups
Nov 25, 2021
The Rising Cost of Dairy, the World on Your Plate and Truffle Pig Chocolate
Nov 11, 2021
Better Food Inflation data with Melanie Morrison, CEO BetterCart Analytics, and Trying Stuff featuring Fressy Bessie Ice Lollies
Oct 28, 2021
Food Sustainability with Cher Mereweather plus Trying Stuff with Zoglo's Incredible
Oct 14, 2021
Fairtrade Canada CEO Julie Francoeur, the global food supply chain and Trying Stuff with Gin & Tonic
Sep 30, 2021
Post-Pandemic Grocery featuring an exclusive interview with Serge Boulanger, SVP Metro
Sep 16, 2021
Canadian Grand Prix New Products Award Spotlight: Vice President and Director, Metro’s Corporate Brands, Marie-France Gibson and Paula Deane
Aug 12, 2021
Canadian Grand Prix New Products Award Spotlight: Véronique Blanchet, Product Manager at Groupe Biscuits Leclerc Inc
Jul 29, 2021
Season Finale: Part 2 of Our Interview with Diane J. Brisebois, President & CEO Retail Council of Canada
Jul 22, 2021
Canadian Grand Prix New Products Award Spotlight: Jenny Longo, Senior Director Private Brands, Culinary Innovation, and Central Kitchen at Longo's
Jul 15, 2021
Talking Sugar, Pork + Population Stats and Part 1 of our interview with Diane J. Brisebois President & CEO, Retail Council of Canada
Jul 08, 2021
Canadian Grand Prix New Products Award Spotlight: Stacie Sopinka, VP Own Brands at Sobeys
Jul 02, 2021
At the Tipping Point: Canadian Restaurants, Cannabis Edibles & Part Two of FHCP CEO Michael Graydon Interview
Jun 24, 2021
Drought on the Prairies, Lab Turkey, Regenerative Agriculture and Part 1 of our Interview with Michael Graydon, CEO at Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada
Jun 10, 2021
Canadian Grand Prix New Products Award Spotlight: Avijit Bose, Director of Marketing at Reynolds Consumer Products Canada Ltd.
Jun 03, 2021
The COVID-Era Grocery Landscape: From Self-Checkouts to Food Autonomy
May 27, 2021
Canadian Grand Prix New Products Award Spotlight: Tatiana Bossy, Co-Founder of Maison Le Grand
May 21, 2021
Canadian Grand Prix New Products Award Spotlight: Kirk Homenick, President of Hardbite Chips
May 20, 2021
1st Anniversary episode talking Canadians relationship with Beef, #buttergate v3.0, fair trade and our new Youtube channel!
May 13, 2021
Canadian Grand Prix New Products Awards Spotlight: Ahmad Yehya, CEO Nabati Foods
May 06, 2021
Remarkable Grocery Retail with best-selling author Steve Dennis
Apr 29, 2021
Understanding the Quebec food industry with Sylvie Cloutier, Présidente-directrice générale chez CTAQ
Apr 15, 2021
Calgary Co-op CEO Ken Keelor's winning strategy
Apr 01, 2021
The Secret Ingredient behind the success of Portland's Voodoo Doughnuts
Mar 25, 2021
Top Chef /Restaurateur Carl Heinrich talks COVID dining trends, coming out the other side, tips included
Mar 18, 2021
Restaurant critic Alexandra Gill dishes on her tradecraft and the future of the industry
Mar 11, 2021
Exploring Canada's retail dairy market with Mark Taylor, President & CEO Lactalis Canada
Mar 04, 2021
We expose "Buttergate", plus Restaurants Canada President & CEO Todd Barclay on how the industry survives to serve again
Feb 18, 2021
How will the Biden Administration impact Canada?
Jan 21, 2021
Starting 2021 where it all begins - on the farm - with the new face of farming, Cherilyn Jolly-Nagel
Jan 07, 2021
Top 10 Food Stories of 2020!
Dec 24, 2020
Behind the scenes of Canada's Food Price Report 2021 with special guest Simon Somogyi, Arrell Chair in the Business of Food at The University of Guelph
Dec 10, 2020
Jo-Ann McArthur, President of Nourish Food Marketing discusses her 2021 Food Trend Report plus we explore domestic food manufacturing and the resiliant food supply chain
Nov 26, 2020
Peter van Stolk, CEO at FoodX Technologies and Spud.com talks grocery eCommerce growth and selling Canadian technology to the word, exploring a Biden White House plus the Clearwater-Mi’kmaq First Nations deal
Nov 12, 2020
Julie Denton, Chief People Officer at Recipe Unlimited and BOD at Restaurants Canada is our guest as we chat Supply Management in dairy and the zen of buying local
Oct 29, 2020
Tareq Hadhad, CEO and Founder of Peace by Chocolate is our special guest, plus pandemic gardening research, Chile food fraud, and remembering Percy Schmeiser
Oct 15, 2020
Senator Rob Black talks about life in the Chamber of Sober Second Thought and agriculture policy, plus food security and restaurants in the next wave of the pandemic and the joy of home gardens
Oct 01, 2020
Margaret Hudson, President at Burnbrae Farms and 2020 Golden Pencil award recipient is our special guest and we talk eggs, California wildfires impact on the food supply in Canada and the second wave
Sep 17, 2020
Meet Cheryl Haskett, Albert Borgo and Lisa Mina, three award winning food entrepreneurs from the 27th Canadian Grand Prix New Product Awards
Sep 10, 2020
Lori Nikkel, President of Second Harvest on food rescue & insecurity in the COVID era, plus breaking news research and bottom feeder politics
Sep 03, 2020
Cara Keating, President PepsiCo Foods Canada is our special guest, the end of tipping, impact on foodservice when we work at home, talkin' 'bout my COVID generation
Aug 20, 2020
Jessica Wright from Montpak's Family Fontaine the "All Canadian" category winner and visionary chef Marcus Von Albrecht on the Canadian Grand Prix new product awards 2020!
Aug 06, 2020
Solange Ackrill, Vice President Club Coffee brews up insights on the coffee industry plus titan testimony de-brief, Voila unpacked and research on insect protein and more!
Jul 23, 2020
Exclusive interview with Sarah Joyce, SVP Voila by Sobeys, Canada's newest grocery eCommerce launch
Jul 09, 2020
The hot potatoe of increasing food prices, costs and "gift" of COVID-19 and guest David Marcott from Kantar talks grocery tech trends
Jun 25, 2020
Exclusive Canadian COVID-19 restaurant research, the complicated issue of Hero Pay, pandemic on the farm
Jun 11, 2020
Consumer perspectives on farmgate euthanasia, fixing supply management's shortcomings, increasing cost of food and the Feds support for the Fisheries
May 28, 2020
The Canadian Government gets a B+ on Agriculture COVID-19 support, pandemic processing plants, and the joy of gardening!
May 14, 2020
Introducing The Food Professor with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois and host Michael LeBlanc
May 10, 2020