Communicator

Broadcasting and Speaking

Anita began a broadcasting career with a summer series on Ontario Morning in 1999 which continued into a long association with  CBC Radio One's Fresh Air, a Saturday/Sunday programme with an audience reach across the Province and on line with an audience of roughly 350,000. She is that programme’s Food Columnist.  Her extensive career in speaking has been inspirational to many and standing ovations are common.   She began with book tours and has continued with engagements around the world.   

(To discuss booking Anita to speak to your group, contact carolyn.sharp (@) cogeco (dot) ca)

 

Articles 

Anita is currently concentrating her writing efforts on the website for Food Day Canada and for Canada's new national culinary magazine, International Taste and Travel.  Most recently she has written for Canadian Geographic Travel, FOOD & DRINK, The Advocate (a Québec monthly) and has written commissioned articles in magazines and newspapers from Gourmet to the Los Angeles Times, from the Toronto Star to the Globe and Mail. Her work has been published  internationally in multiple languages for Slow Food’s website and magazine. Over the past decades, pieces have appeared in Elm Street, Century Home, Doctor’s Review, Canadian Press, Homemakers, Foodservice and Hospitality, Chatelaine-Travel Canadian Hotel and Restaurant, Canadian Living’s FOOD, Flare, City and Country Home, The Vancouver Sun, The Montreal Gazette, The Guelph Mercury and The Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

In the U.S., her work has appeared in the U.S. in Endless Vacation, The Dallas Morning News, Travel/Holiday Magazine, FoodArts, Corporate and Incentive Travel, and the Los Angeles Times. 

 

Speaking Engagements — A Smattering of the Highlights
  • Convocation Address, University of Guelph, June 2011
  • Emcee and Host, Canada Brand Breakfast, Calgary Stampede, July 2010
  • Emcee and Host, Canada Brand Breakfast, 2010 Olympic Winter Games
  • Host and dinner speaker, STOP Community Centre dinner series, October 2009
  • Speaker at AGM, Travel Tourism Association of Canada, October 2009
  • Keynote speaker at the inaugural meeting of Durham Region Food Group,  July 2009
  • Speaker at Food Meets Function, Metro Convention Centre, Toronto, June 2009
  • Guest and dinner speaker, Don Mills University Women’s Club, May 2009
  • Keynote speaker, Canadian Federation of Chefs and Cooks, AGM, Kelowna 2009
  • Keynote speaker, Ontario Culinary Tourism Summit, November 2008
  • Host and speaker, New York City’s 41-74 Club October 2008
  • Luncheon/Keynote speaker, OMAFRA Division Day, September 2008
  • Keynote speaker at Canada Media Marketplace, New York City, April 2007
  • Keynote speaker in Quebec City for the Agriculture and Communications Excellence, 2006.
  • Participant in The OAC Dean’s Lecture Series at the University of Guelph, November 2004
  • Plenary speaker at The International Culinary Tourism Conference in Victoria, B.C. May 2004.
  • Keynote and wrap up Beyond City Lights/Rural Tourism. Simcoe, March 2004
  • The South Australian Food and Wine Tourism Workshop in McLaren Vale, South Australia, October            2003
  • Hahn Food and Wine Writers Festival in Adelaide, S.A. and broadcast on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) October 2003
  • Annual General Meeting of the Tourism Federation of Ontario, Orillia, April 2003
  • Ontario Institute of Agrologists, Simcoe, April 2003
  • Beyond City Lights, a rural tourism conference in Ottawa, March 2003
  • Alumni in Action, University of Guelph, March 2003
  • Manitoba Direct Farm Marketing Association, February 2003
  • Ontario Tender Fruit Growers Annual General Meeting, February 2002
  • Keynote at Annual General Meetings of both the New Brunswick and PEI Food Processors Associations, November 2001
  • Dinner keynote at The International Conference of the Associated Country Women of the World, June 2001
  • Ontario Agri-Business Association AGM, February 2001
  • The W. Garfield Weston Foundation’s Board Meeting, January 2001
  • The President’s Luncheon of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair October 2000.
  • National Agricultural Awareness Week kick off, Ottawa, October 2000
  • Presenter at the 11th Symposium on Australian Gastronomy in Hobart, Tasmania, September 1999
  • Keynote address at the first joint and first Canadian meeting of The Association for the Study of Food in Society and The Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society in June 1999
  • Speaker and Panelist at Hahn Food and Wine Writers Festival and Tasting Australia in Adelaide, September 1999
  • Canada’s Media Marketplace in Pasadena, California, May 1997
  • Canadian Pacific’s General Managers’ Meeting in Mont Tremblant, March 1997
  • Canadian Pacific Hotels Food & Beverage Conference January 1997
  • The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, England, September 1992.