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Chef Ken Hookham is inspired by the Pacific Northwest

The Chef de Cuisine for Q at the Empress Hotel uses local ingredients
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Chef de Cuisine Ken Hookham on the roof top garden at the Fairmont Empress Hotel. Don Denton photograph

- Story by Angela Cowan

Story courtesy of Boulevard Magazine, a Black Press Media publication
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Ken Hookham is Chef de Cuisine for Q at the Empress at Victoria’s Fairmont Empress Hotel – an award-winning signature restaurant that defines the destination. Ken takes his culinary inspiration from the Pacific Northwest region and its abundance of local ingredients, celebrating the amazing farmers, foragers and artisans that make Vancouver Island so unique.

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