QUEBEC — Quebec foodservice supplier Saputo is putting on the heat, running a competition to name Canada’s favourite pizzeria.

Charlottetown’s Famous Pepper's Pizza is the current leader in the running.

HALIFAX — Five hundred and forty nine photos of more than 200 chefs at the 49th Canadian Culinary Federation (CCFCC) Convention, held earlier this month in Halifax, are now available online.

The pictures include: a group photo, culinary creations prepared by competing junior and senior chefs, food, wine and beer sampling and demos at The Halifax Citadel, seminar and workshop speakers, award-winning author and inspirational speaker Chef Charles Carroll, the CCFCC Honour Society induction dinner, the President’s Gala Dinner, the Atlantic kitchen party at Keith’s Brewery, an Annapolis Valley wine tour and social events. The theme of the convention was Sustainable Food Systems.

MONCTON, N.B. — Raymond Roberge, GM of the Delta Beauséjour, is celebrating The Windjammer Restaurant’s 20th consecutive CAA/AAA Four Diamond Award distinction.

“Our Windjammer team under maître d’ Frédéric Mazerolle and executive chef Stefan Mueller, provide a culinary experience that is renowned throughout the Atlantic region,” says Roberge of the distinction that is shared with many restaurants across the country.

The sealing industry is under attack again as animal activists protest the harp seal quota for the annual hunt, which is expected to begin next Monday.

Earlier this week the federal government announced this year’s 400,000 quota that was set despite news that fewer harp pelts are being sold and scientist reports that there should be fewer seals hunted.