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URL:https://devourfest.com/program/devour-opening-gala-wwinner-of-nourish-
 ns-film-food-challenge/
SUMMARY:Devour! Opening Gala of Haute Cuisine w/Winner of Nourish NS Film &
  Food Challenge
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to have internationally-renowned chef\, Domini
 que Crenn curate her favourite food film of all-time\, Haute Cuisine (Les 
 saveurs du Palais).\n\n\n\nHaute Cuisine (Les saveurs du Palais)\n\nHorten
 se Laborie is a celebrated chef living in the Perigord region. To her grea
 t surprise\, the President of the Republic appoints her as his personal co
 ok. She accepts reluctantly but once she has accepted her nomination\, Hor
 tense works her heart and soul to produce both a stylish and authentic cui
 sine. For a while\, she manages to impose herself thanks to her sturdy cha
 racter and despite the jealousies she arouses among the other chefs. For a
  while only\, unfortunately for her and for... the President.\n\nFrance\, 
 2012\, 95 minutes\n\nDirector Christian Vincent\n\nDistributor Criterion P
 ictures\n\nOn this special evening\, we will also award the youth winner o
 f the Nourish Nova Scotia Food &amp\; Film Challenge. We invited children 
 and youth of all ages to make a short film under three minutes about this 
 year's theme is food literacy-having the knowledge\, skills and attitudes 
 necessary to choose\, grow\, prepare and enjoy food to support one’s hea
 lth\, community and the environment. The winner will receive a $500.00 pri
 ze to support a healthy eating program or initiative in their school/commu
 nity.\n\n\n\nDominique Crenn\n\nDominique Crenn was exposed to French fine
  dining almost from birth. While still a young girl growing up in Versaill
 es and Paris\, she would visit celebrated and luxurious restaurants with h
 er politician father. Such early access to the gastronomic intricacies of 
 her country\, combined with the comforts of her mother’s rural home cook
 ing\, instilled in Crenn a lifelong love of French cuisine.\n\nBut Crenn i
 s not someone who does things by the book. A Ted Talk regular\, who speaks
  passionately about defining success\, being a woman in a male-dominated i
 ndustry\, creativity and the importance of sustainability\, she has always
  followed her own unique path.\n\nInstead of going to culinary school in F
 rance\, for instance\, she got herself a business degree from the Academy 
 of International Commerce in Paris and headed to the USA\, where she train
 ed under legendary San Francisco chef Jeremiah Tower. After stints at some
  of the city’s top restaurants\, she again chose the road less travelled
  by moving to Indonesia\, where she made culinary history as the country
 ’s first ever female executive chef at the InterContinental Hotel in Jak
 arta. Returning to the USA and spending almost a decade in Southern Califo
 rnia\, she finally settled in San Francisco\, where after heading up the k
 itchen at Luce\, she opened her own restaurant\, Atelier Crenn\, in 2011.\
 n\nA homage to her late father\, the restaurant is modelled on his persona
 l studio and a place where art is the guiding force. Entitled “poetic cu
 linaria” with menus written as poems\, Crenn’s imaginative modernist c
 ooking reflects her deeply personal creative expression and vision of fine
  French cuisine. Fiercely local\, seasonal and sustainable\, her highly ar
 tistic tasting menus speak of place and memory and take diners on an unapo
 logetically emotional journey through flavours\, textures and scents.\n\nL
 ast year\, Crenn branched out to open a second restaurant called Petit Cre
 nn. Inspired by the home cooking of Brittany and an ode to her mother and 
 grandmother\, it is a more homely space that serves a family-style five-co
 urse menu of vegetables and seafood. Petit Crenn is both the antithesis an
 d perfect counterpart to Atelier Crenn\; together the restaurants encapsul
 ate the chef’s unique take on life and food.\n\nAs The World’s Best Fe
 male Chef 2016\, Crenn may have come a long way from that little girl back
  in France who dreamed of becoming a chef. However\, the memories of her c
 hildhood continue to define her extraordinary and singular cooking to this
  day.
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