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Freelance writer and recipe developer Alison Kent is enthusiastic-to-obsessive about all things food and travel-related. A certified chef, Alison is the former food editor of cookbooks at Canadian Living, where she also penned the best-selling cookbook, The Vegetarian Collection. Additional writing credits include The Toronto Star and Reader's Digest, where she is a monthly contributor to their Open Kitchen section. In 2012 alone, Alison travelled coast-to-coast for Chinese New Year celebrations in Richmond, B.C. to the Savour Food Wine Show in Halifax, Nova Scotia.