Michele Genest

Culinary Delights: Michele Genest. Yukon author and cook Michele Genest has lived in Whitehorse since 1994, where she moved from her hometown of Toronto. She has written about food and culture for the past 25 years, and cooked ever since she can remember. Her past experience includes a four-year stint as dining editor of enRoute Magazine, and another as chief dishwasher and fish-cleaner in a waterfront restaurant on a small Greek island. She writes a regular cooking column for Yukon, North of Ordinary Magazine, and her print credits include the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette, enRoute, Flare and Geist. Her cookbook, The Boreal Gourmet, is a national bestseller and won a Canadian Culinary Books award in 2011. She will tour Scandinavia in the fall of 2012 on a research trip for her next book on northern cuisine, to be released by Harbour Publishing in spring 2014.