24 Facts About Roger Mooking

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Roger Mooking is a Trinidadian-Canadian chef, musician, and television host.

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Roger Mooking is the host and co-creator of Everyday Exotic.

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Roger Mooking appears on Heat Seekers with Aaron Sanchez on Food Network.

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Roger Mooking has had many appearances on shows such as Today, Good Morning America, The Marilyn Denis Show, Iron Chef America, Top Chef Canada, and Chopped Canada.

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Roger Mooking was born in Trinidad and Tobago into an extended family made up of food and beverage business providers.

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Roger Mooking moved to Canada at the age of five, and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, where his parents were in the restaurant business.

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Roger Mooking was introduced to European flavours by his mother, who prepared dishes from recipes passed on by her Ukrainian neighbours.

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Under the stage name MC Mystic, Roger Mooking spent the early 1990s as a member of the Edmonton-based hip hop band The Maximum Definitive, who received a Juno Award nomination in 1993 for their single "Jungle Man".

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Roger Mooking has since released two solo albums, Soul Food in 2008 and Feedback in 2013.

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Roger Mooking studied culinary arts at George Brown College, and still continues to operate as the chair of the professional advisory committee.

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Roger Mooking worked at Toronto's Royal York Hotel before co-owning and consulting on many food and beverage operations in Ontario.

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Currently he is the executive chef at Twist by Roger Mooking, located in Terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

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Roger Mooking is the host of several television shows, including Heat Seekers and Man Fire Food.

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Roger Mooking is the co-creator and host of Everyday Exotic, a television show in which he features spices and other flavourful ingredients from around the globe and shows viewers how to use them in everyday cooking.

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Roger Mooking served as a recurring judge on Food Network's Chopped Canada.

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Roger Mooking served as a judge on two episodes of season 10 Guy's Grocery Games.

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Roger Mooking has been the subject of an hour-long biography titled Chefography for Cooking Channel.

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Roger Mooking has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Iron Chef America, Top Chef Canada, The Marilyn Denis Show, Wendy Williams, Martha Stewart Radio, Unique Eats, and Steven and Chris.

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Roger Mooking has made regular appearances at various food and wine festivals, including New York Food and Wine Festival, South Beach Food and Wine Festival, Gourmet Escape and The Essence Music Festival.

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Roger Mooking is slated to appear in the 2021 edition of Canada Reads, advocating for Francesca Ekwuyasi's novel Butter Honey Pig Bread.

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In 2011, Roger Mooking partnered up with World Vision Canada and made a trip to Cambodia to exchange information and ideas about child nutrition, and to bring awareness to the issues of healthy food and clean water for families in all countries.

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In fall 2012, Roger Mooking traveled to Bangladesh to visit nutrition-related programming run by Save the Children and to meet with community groups, medical clinics, and local families and explore ways to create sustainable health and nutrition programs so that successful concepts can be applied worldwide.

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Roger Mooking has continued to work with Save The Children and their programming and has since traveled to Peru as well as worked with the organization locally.

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Roger Mooking is committed to Toronto-based charity Second Harvest, co-hosting its annual charity Toronto Taste, for providing rescued food to families in need.