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NEW Beer Seminars offered in the Fall

The School is thrilled to announce the offering of beer education.  With the success of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) certification courses, it made sense to look into beer as our next step.

The beer seminar series will launch in October, offering 'Beer Basics' in October, followed by 'Canadian Brewing Traditions" in January 2017, and 'Farmhouse Fermentation: Beer & Cheese' in March 2017.

2016 OHI Top 30 Under 30 Honoured

top 30 under 30 recipients
Photo caption: (l-r: Bruce McAdams, faculty representative, Aaron Laurie, David Humphrey, Jamie Knoepfli & Benn Froggett)  

Joe Barth speaks with a group of locals in India

Research on Black Pepper Takes Professor Joe Barth to India

In February as part of the research for a book about black pepper (piper nigrum), Joe Barth travelled to Cochin, India to follow the supply chain from the grower to the exporter.  Highlights of the trip included consultations with an Ayurvedic Doctor about the uses of black pepper in traditional Indian medicine; visits to a medium-sized pepper farm in the western Ghats mountains, rural commissioned spice traders, the India Pepper and Spice Traders Association (where pepper auctions are held) and a lengthy interview with one of the largest pepper exporters i

2016 OHI Top 30 Under 30 Recognizes Four from HFTM

The Top 30 Under 30 is an annual recognition program from the Ontario Hostelry Institute (OHI) that celebrates the hospitality and foodservice industry's top 30 young professionals in all sectors.  This high profile recognition program celebrates and recognizes future leaders of the hospitality and foodservice industry who are and will make a difference!

The School is proud to announce our Rising Stars of the Top 30 under 30 below.  

Congratulations to:

HFTMSA to Host the Hospitality & Tourism Case Competition (HTCC)

This weekend the Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management Student Association (HFTMSA) will host its most anticipated event of the year - the Hospitality & Tourism Case Competition (HTCC). 

A speaker panel titled "Beyond the Beds: The Perspective of Canada's Leading Hotel Investment," features young professionals within the hotel investment industry will kick off the weekend on Friday, March 4th at 5:30 p.m. 

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