Eric Akis

ERIC AKIS has been a food writer for the Victoria Times Colonist since 1997, and his columns are published in news- papers across Canada. He is also a food consultant and recipe developer for the Thrifty Foods supermarket chain owned by Sobeys, and the creator of the best-selling Everyone Can Cook cookbook series. A trained chef and pastry chef, he worked for 15 years in fine hotels, bustling restaurants, and other food operations before becoming a journalist.

His eighth book,the Great Rotisserie Chicken Cookbook, published Appetite by Random House, will be available March 31, 2015.

Born into a military family, Akis has lived in 6 Canadian provinces. He now makes his home in Victoria, British Columbia. To learn more about Eric Akis, visit www.everyonecancook.com.