Eric Akis

ERIC AKIS has been a food writer for the Victoria Times Colonist since 1997, and his columns have been published in newspapers across Canada, including Calgary Herald , Edmonton Journal , Ottawa Citizen , Vancouver Sun and Winnipeg Free Press . Akis is a trained chef and pastry chef, and before becoming a journalist he worked for 15 years in fine hotels, bustling restaurants, and other food operations. Akis also works as a food consultant/recipe developer and his principal client for more than...See more

ERIC AKIS has been a food writer for the Victoria Times Colonist since 1997, and his columns have been published in newspapers across Canada, including Calgary Herald , Edmonton Journal , Ottawa Citizen , Vancouver Sun and Winnipeg Free Press . Akis is a trained chef and pastry chef, and before becoming a journalist he worked for 15 years in fine hotels, bustling restaurants, and other food operations. Akis also works as a food consultant/recipe developer and his principal client for more than a decade has been Thrifty Foods, a regarded West Coast Canadian supermarket chain owned by Sobeys, which also owns IGA. In 2003, his experiences as a chef and food writer inspired him to create the bestselling Everyone Can Cook cookbook series. The Great Rotisserie Chicken Cookbook is his eighth book. See less