Marcus Von Albrecht Chef & President of Mava Foods – Food Talks Vancouver Vol 6

Marcus Von Albrecht
Chef & President of Mava Foods and Von Albrecht & Associates

Marcus Von Albrecht has a wide variety of specializations that he brings to the table. He is an owner of Mava Foods, a food manufacturer utilizing local ingredients that produces home meal replacements for grocery stores.They prepare a food program for 44 elementary schools (MAVAlicious KidsEat) and the Meals on Wheels for Vancouver, Richmond and Burnaby. He is the Principal behind XFour Handcrafted Vodka which is B.C’s first handcrafted premium corn and rye based vodka which produces XFour Xoxolat Chocolate Martini.

Marcus has also been the Past President of the BC Chefs’ Association. Chair of the New Food Products Panel for the Canadian Council of Grocers and Vice President of North America- AREGALA.

-Speaker bios courtesy of Vancouver Foodster and foodtalks.ca

Food Talks is an evening of expert speakers from the Vancouver Food community.

To hear more speakers from Food Talks please visit geoffmobile.com/blog/category/food-talks-vancouver
or foodtalks.ca

Food Talks Volume 6 was held in Vancouver BC Canada on February 12th 2013.

Presented by Richard Wolak, twitter.com/VanFoodster
vancouverfoodster.com

As featured on geoffmobile.com
Presented by Foodtalks.ca and vancouverfoodster.com

Videography by Geoff Peters of Birds in the House Productions birdsinthehouse.com

Filmed at the Dockside Lounge, Granville Island, 1253 Johnston Street, Vancouver BC Canada
www.docksidevancouver.com/

Closing music by Laundryman laundrymanmusic.com used with permission.

Mark Simpson – Brewmaster of Dockside Brewing Company – Food Talks Vol 6

Mark Simpson – Brewmaster of Dockside Brewing Company & Founder of Artisan Food and Beverage Group Inc

Mark Simpson is the Winemaker and Brewmaster at Artisan Food and Beverage Group Inc. which he founded. Mark has decades of experience in brewing and winemaking. He has had a keen interest in fermentation since graduating from the UBC Microbiology program in 1982. He started his career with Molson Breweries, working with their core brands, as well as brewing international brands under license such as: Lowenbrau, Coors and Kirin and a ten year stint as Brewmaster for Granville Island Brewing Company.

Mark wears many hats, he is currently Brewmaster of Dockside Brewing Company and produces his own line of super-premium BC wines under his own Siren’s Call label. Mark is one of the few Certified Cicerones in Canada and has a keen interest in beer culture and food pairing for beer.

Find Mark Simpson on Twitter @marcusteleman twitter.com/marcusteleman

-Speaker bios courtesy of Vancouver Foodster and foodtalks.ca

Food Talks is an evening of expert speakers from the Vancouver Food community.

To hear more speakers from Food Talks please visit geoffmobile.com/blog/category/food-talks-vancouver

or foodtalks.ca

Food Talks Volume 6 was held in Vancouver BC Canada on February 12th 2013.

Presented by Richard Wolak, twitter.com/VanFoodster

vancouverfoodster.com

As featured on geoffmobile.com

Presented by Foodtalks.ca and vancouverfoodster.com

Videography by Geoff Peters of Birds in the House Productions birdsinthehouse.com

Filmed at the Dockside Lounge, Granville Island, 1253 Johnston Street, Vancouver BC Canada

Dockside Vancouver

Closing music by Laundryman laundrymanmusic.com used with permission.