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Welcome to SPROUT, CSK's corporate social responsibility platform!

This website details all the community activities that Canada's Smartest Kitchen staff undertake with the public, including volunteer efforts, meetings with public and youth organizations, educational activities at the post-secondary and secondary level, and other outreach that our team participates in to give back to those in our region. Some of the programs and project overviews include culinary, nutrition, agriculture and health & wellness initiatives along with many others.  We are so pleased to share our expertise and give back to the community through SPROUT: contact us at (902) 566-9674 or csk@hollandcollege.com if you are interested in connecting with CSK on future culinary and educational opportunities!

CSK Supports Annual Holland College Fundraiser

September 22, 2020

Canada’s Smartest Kitchen – Product Developers and Professional Chefs Krista MacQuarrie and Christine Murnaghan were pleased to support the annual Holland College Foundation & Holland Hurricanes Golf Tournament with some delicious healthy snacks on September 17 2020, to help keep the participants fueled through all 18 holes. Every year, this community event played at Belvedere Golf […]

STUDENT OUTREACH – HOLLAND COLLEGE PRACTICAL NURSING

March 6, 2020

The Practical Nursing program and Applied Research Department completed a college-wide student survey to determine what food insecurity looks like for college students. CSK demonstrated brain boosting smoothies, the importance of healthy eating and how proper nutrition can impact students’ academic performance at two campus locations as a support to this initiative. CSK observed over […]

OUTREACH SESSION – DIGITAL SKILLS FOR YOUTH

March 6, 2020

CSK led an experiential sensory evaluation exercise with 16 youth exploring career options. This included a hands-on demonstration of how Product Developers taste and evaluate food products during research and development.

STUDENT OUTREACH – CHARLOTTETOWN RURAL HIGH

March 6, 2020

CSK worked with leadership students to prepare brain-boosting snacks during exam week. Menu items included blueberry-spinach smoothies and two kinds of healthy breakfast bars. This ongoing collaboration demonstrated the importance and benefits of healthy living. Additionally, CSK staff led two smoothie and breakfast bar sessions during the school’s Wellness Expo.

STUDENT OUTREACH – HOLLAND COLLEGE VARSITY ATHLETICS

March 6, 2020

CSK partnered with the Holland College Varsity Athletics Department to facilitate three semi-structured focus group sessions which included healthy snack options during their breaks. Two groups of student athletes and one group of coaching staff participated. The intent of the sessions was to gain qualitative, conversational data which in turn could be used to better […]

VOLUNTEER DINNER – CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION

March 6, 2020

CSK partnered with the Charlottetown branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association to prepare their annual Christmas turkey luncheon for their clients. For some of the clients, this is the only hot turkey dinner they would receive over the holiday season. CSK prepared turkey with all the trimmings and blueberry shortcake for dessert.

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The kind of cookie you can have for breakfast 💫 The kind of cookie you can have for breakfast 💫 
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These cookies are on their way to our friends at Charlottetown Rural! Next week is exam week and these cookies are made to help students feel ready-to-ace!
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We look forward to this project every year, knowing it gives some of our Island students a good start to their day.
Today is our favourite kind of day - sensory testi Today is our favourite kind of day - sensory testing day!
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When we want to know what people REALLY think, we do a call out for sensory participants. To stay within CPHO guidelines, we now offer them as “take home kits”. Today is sensory pick-up day and we can’t wait to see what our testers have to say about these (secret) products.
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If you have been contacted and are on our list of participants, see you soon! 👋
Say hi to Jenna! . Jenna is one of our stellar int Say hi to Jenna!
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Jenna is one of our stellar interns and a second year student at The Culinary Institute. We caught up with her today to ask what makes her such a great fit to our team. ❤️
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Question: Why did you want to take classes at The Culinary?
Answer: I have always been passionate about food. In high school I took a Commercial Cooking Class, and it was the only class that didn’t feel like work. I always looked forward to it.
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Question: What is your favourite dish to make?
Answer: There’s so many! I do love soup though. Soup really got me through quarantine. 
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Question: What do you love the most about CSK?
Answer: I love working alongside experienced Product Developers and seeing what they do. It really opens your mind up to the different possibilities in this field and everyone is so apt to help! I love that I get to learn something new every day.
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Welcome to the team Jenna! We love all that you bring to CSK.
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(Also a huge shout out to Jenna’s mom, who followed our Instagram account minutes after Jenna was hired, and has been our biggest fan since 😍)
✨A great big “WELCOME” to the new year ✨ . ✨A great big “WELCOME” to the new year ✨
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It felt so good opening these doors this morning and welcoming our team to 2021 at CSK! We have so many exciting projects on the books and we can’t wait to see where this year takes us.
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Interested in getting our help on your next project? Our DMs are always open!
Meet Ashton! 👋 . Ashton is one of our amazing Meet Ashton! 👋 
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Ashton is one of our amazing intern staff and we wanted you to know a bit more about her!
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Question: What is your favourite meal to make?
Ashton: Butter chicken - made just right! You have to marinate the meat and be sure to sauté off the spice!
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Question: What inspired you to become a chef?
Ashton: My parents - they were always  naturally good cooks at home and I wanted to carry that into my career.
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Question: What is your favourite part about working at CSK?
Ashton: There’s always something new to do! As opposed to making the same thing every day - there’s always something new on the go.
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Thanks Ashton for being such a core part of the CSK team. ❤️
Exciting things are happening! . A few weeks ago, Exciting things are happening!
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A few weeks ago, the bioscience team from @hollandcollege came to visit our facility to see how we could collaborate with our equipment - today they returned the favour! We toured their facility today and we are excited about some future collaboration!
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A special shout out to Shawn MacDougall from the Holland College Applied Research Office for coordinating this! We can’t wait to see what we can do together and support student learning and the real world needs of clients.
Have we told you lately how much we love our inter Have we told you lately how much we love our intern staff? To celebrate them and how much they add to our work here at CSK, we are highlighting them over the next few weeks!
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Starting with Serdar 👨‍🍳 
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Serdar has been with us for over a month and has already added so much to our projects we have on the go. 
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Question: What is your favourite food to make?
Serdar: Chicken! A nice mustard and spice rub? My favourite! Skin on is a must!
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Question: What do you like about working at CSK?
Serdar: Not only do I get to learn something new every day; I get to learn from and work with my teachers from school. Chef Allan taught me and now I work alongside him.
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Question: Whats one piece of advice you would give to someone entering the culinary field?
Answer: Make sure you genuinely love to cook! Everyone thinks they’ll become a famous chef overnight and that’s not the case. It’s hard (but really good) work, so make sure you love it!
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Thank-you for all you do Serdar! What should we ask in our next mini interview?
We love to showcase our talented partners - and we We love to showcase our talented partners - and we love even more when they come back to see how the project worked out!
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The talented crew at Techno helped make our wall a bit more fun - showcasing our collaborative work! We love to #supportlocal and it’s easy when we have such incredible talent here in PEI!
A huge shout out to Sign Craft who installed some A huge shout out to Sign Craft who installed some new art for us. 
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This is a glimpse of the installation and we love it! These pictures are just a taste of what we do and greet everyone who enters our space!
While we are passionate about good food as chefs, While we are passionate about good food as chefs, we are also passionate about good food as a 🧪 science 🧑🏽‍🔬
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We offer so many services through Canada’s Smartest Kitchen, including the use of our experts in food analysis and more!
We are lucky to have a stellar team (like Chef Kri We are lucky to have a stellar team (like Chef Krista) that value innovation AND great taste!
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When you hire our team you get experts helping you along the way. The real question is: what can we help you with?
Lest we forget. . 📸: @murphyhospitalitygroup Lest we forget.
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📸: @murphyhospitalitygroup
We are so proud and excited to honour our CSK dire We are so proud and excited to honour our CSK director - Tim McRoberts.
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Today, Tim received the “Leadership Excellence Award” from Holland College - a very well deserved acknowledgement of the leadership roles he has held while at the College.
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We could list all of the MANY academic and professional accomplishments of Tim, but we think Chef Allan Williams said it best before presenting Tim with the award:
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“Whether a team moderator, manager, or colleague - Tim is equally ‘in the trenches’ with his team. Every person is included... He leads with integrity and always remains optimistic.”
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Over the past 25 years, Tim has consistently raised the College’s prestige and reputation in every role he has held - we are lucky to have him here at CSK!
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Please join us in congratulating Tim 👏🏼
We are always excited to be serving up something n We are always excited to be serving up something new - and that can include strategic partnerships!
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Today we welcomed our friends from the Bioscience Program at Holland College and discussed how we can work together to best serve our clients and students. We enjoyed great discussion AND an incredible lunch created by our team.
Today's Flashback Foodie Friday calls for "dark ch Today's Flashback Foodie Friday calls for "dark chocolate ribbon cake" - happy weekend! 
#WeKnowFood #FlashbackFriday #FoodieFriday #FBF #Chocolate #CulinaryArt #Cake #YesPlease #AlwaysEatDessert
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