The Food Professor
Hosted by Michael LeBlanc and Michael and Sylvain and Sylvain Charlebois and Dr Sylvain Charlebois · Michael LeBlanc, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois
3.9from 51 ratings
- 282
- Episodes
- 141
- Transcribed
- 51
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 114K
- YouTube views
About The Food Professor
Join Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax with host Michael LeBlanc as they look at the hot issues in the food, foodservice, grocery and restaurant industries. We'll discuss proprietary industry and consumer food related research, check out fresh new ideas and talk about half baked strategies. © 2020-2026 M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Publisher
- Michael LeBlanc, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois
- Category
- business · news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
141 of 282 episodes have a transcript.
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
AGT Foods CEO Murad Al-Katib on Value-Added Food, Plus Record Food Bank Use and Quebec’s Maple Syrup Shock
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Singapore Can Teach Canadian Grocers, MNP Latest Report on G20 Food Rankings plus guest Vinayak Madappa, Strategic Advisory Partner, Capgemini
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Wild Fork Gets the Fork, Boycott Math, New PQ Government & AG and guests Vicky Trépanier, President, and Jean-François Théorêt, Master Distiller, WfE Distillery
Inside a recent episode
AGT Foods CEO Murad Al-Katib on Value-Added Food, Plus Record Food Bank Use and Quebec’s Maple Syrup Shock
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And we've been waiting for the right opportunity to deploy that capital into India. We did it. And the end of December of this year, we'll have a brand new state-of-the-art semolina manufacturing and pasta manufacturing plant in India. Yeah. So, you know, there's an opportunity to be taking, you know, Canadian Durham and Indian Durham and producing pasta and servicing the Asia market, you know, in a very big way. So, you know, when I look at India, we have traditionally looked at it as a sales destination. And they've looked at us and we as a nation have behaved that way. You know, talking about, let's say, you know, their initiatives on self-sufficiency and pulses. […]
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- Murad Al-Katib
- Vinayak Madappa
- Vicky Trépanier
- Jean-François Théorêt
- Steve Dennis
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- YouTube views
- 114,193
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.7 / 5
- 3 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.0 / 5
- 48 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 89
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Who hosts The Food Professor?
Michael LeBlanc and Michael and Sylvain and Sylvain Charlebois and Dr Sylvain Charlebois host the show. Published by Michael LeBlanc, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois.
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