Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

About

Michael Smith

Food Network star Chef Michael Smith has been cooking professionally for over twenty years. An honours graduate of the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in New York, Chef Michael's contagious love of food has earned him friends and admirers worldwide. His early career was spent in restaurants from London to South America, but in 1992 Chef Michael returned to Canada and joined the kitchen at Prince Edward Island's The Inn at Bay Fortune. Soon Chef Michael's focus on regional cooking and local ingredients had earned the restaurant a reputation as one of the top places to eat in Canada. Six years later, Chef Michael invited television cameras into the inn's country kitchen for his first hit television show, The Inn Chef, which premiered on the Life Network. Its popularity helped to launch Food Network Canada. After opening his own restaurant in Halifax, Chef Michael returned to Food Network Canada in 2001 in the show Chef at Large. It was followed by Chef at Home in 2004, which gave viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Chef Michael's home kitchen and the way he cooks for family and friends. This show became wildly popular almost immediately and still remains the highest rated Canadian show on Food Network Canada. Chef Michael is the author of three previous Whitecap cookbooks. Open Kitchen: A Chef's Day at The Inn At Bay Fortune, published in 1998, won the bronze medal at Cuisine Canada's Cookbook Award. Chef Michael followed its success with The Inn Chef and Chef at Home: Cooking with and Without a Recipe,which has sold over 30,000 copies.

Books by Michael Smith

Wood, Fire & Smoke

Recipes and Techniques for Wood-Fired Cooking

by (author) Michael Smith

Farmhouse Vegetables

A Vegetable-Forward Cookbook

by (author) Michael Smith

An Unsung Hero

Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor

by (author) Michael Smith
read by Gerry O'Brien

Farm, Fire & Feast

Recipes from the Inn at Bay Fortune

by (author) Michael Smith

Base-12 Numerology

Discover Your Life Path Through Nature's Most Powerful Number

by (author) Michael Smith

The Voyage of the Southern Sun

read by Michael Smith & Aaron Patrick

Real Food, Real Good

Eat Well With Over 100 of My Simple, Wholesome Recipes: A Cookbook

by (author) Michael Smith

Make Ahead Meals

Over 100 Easy Time-Saving Recipes: A Cookbook

by (author) Michael Smith

Family Meals

100 Easy Everyday Recipes

by (author) Michael Smith

Back To Basics

100 Simple Classic Recipes With A Twist: A Cookbook

by (author) Michael Smith

Special Lectures 2012

Employment Law and the New Workplace in the Social Media Age

by (author) The Law Society of Upper Canada
contributions by Adrian Ott, Patrick Flaherty, Sarah Whitmore, Barry Sookman, Jonathan Shime, Megan Schwartzentruber, Andrea York, Karinne Coombes, Mary Beth Currie, Daniel Tobok, Melany Franklin, Janice Rubin, Ari Blicker, Stuart Rudner, Lisa Stam, Rhonda Jansen, Catherine Peters, Melanie Reist, Rusty McLay, Nicole Black, Renee Mattei Myers, Mark Crestohl, John O'Reilly, Lorna Cuthbert, Fantini Jennifer, Anne Gallop, Michael Smith, Court Peterson, Denis Ellickson, Meg Atkinson, Jonathan Maier, Bernice Karn, Le Vay Paul, Owen Rees, Justin Safayeni, Andrew Pinto, Robert Tarantino, Andrew Bernstein & Rebecca Wise

Fast Flavours

110 Simple Speedy Recipes: A Cookbook

by (author) Michael Smith

Chef Michael Smith's Kitchen

100 Of My Favourite Easy Recipes: A Cookbook

by (author) Michael Smith

Chef at Home

by (author) Michael Smith

The Best of Chef at Home

Essential Recipes for Today's Kitchen

by (author) Michael Smith

Body of Text

by (author) Michael Smith
by (photographer) David Ellingsen

Fresh & Local (Pocket Size)

Straight from Canadian farms to your table

by (author) Craig Flinn
foreword by Michael Smith

55 Most Common Medicinal Herbs

The Complete Natural Medicine Guide

by (author) Heather Boon & Michael Smith

Fresh & Local

Straight from Canadian farms to your table

by (author) Craig Flinn
foreword by Michael Smith

The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to the 50 Most Common Medicinal Herbs

by (author) Heather Boon & Michael Smith