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Author: Charlene Rooke

Charlene Rooke is a Canadian drinks journalist, consultant and educator as well as a travel, food, business and lifestyle writer. She is a WSET Spirits Educator Certified in Spirits (to Level 3) and WSET Certified in Wine, an SWE Certified Specialist of Spirits, an SMWS spirits educator and an artisan distiller trained at Moonshine University in Louisville, KY. She is the lead judge of the Canadian Artisan Spirits Competition and an expert on B.C. spirits who leads distillery tours and guides spirits tastings in B.C. A former editor at many Canadian publications and former creative lead at three content agencies, she is currently the Drinks Editor for Food & Drink, the in-store magazine of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
  • cocktails

All Stirred Up

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on June 1, 2017March 22, 2020

The tools, tricks and recipes for stirring cocktails, to mix up your classic cocktail game.

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  • spirited people

Create, Eat, Pray and Love

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on May 5, 2017May 1, 2020

I got inspired by Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert when she spoke on her…

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  • food

Harvest Feast: A Thanksgiving Brunch

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on October 1, 2016May 1, 2020

For LCBO.com, I created this sumptuous story of an outdoor, autumn-themed opportunity for Thanksgiving or…

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  • travel

Cross Canada Roundup

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on July 1, 2015May 1, 2020

To celebrate Canada Day 2012, I edited this national tour for LCBO’s Food & Drink,…

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  • spirits

Gifted Hosting: Grey Goose

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on December 1, 2014March 23, 2020

These two holiday publications, edited for Grey Goose Vodka while I was Content Director of…

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  • beer

Brewed For Food

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on September 23, 2014March 23, 2020

An editing project (as Content Director at Globe Edge, the in-house content agency at The…

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  • travel

Ontario Local Insider: Wine

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on September 12, 2014March 23, 2020

An annual tourism publication for the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership with a “Local Insider” theme…

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  • travel

Ontario's Best: What to Eat and Drink

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on April 23, 2014March 23, 2020

Produced for the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership while I was Content Director for Globe Edge…

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  • travel

Want to Learn to Make Moonshine?

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on January 10, 2014May 1, 2020

When I attended Moonshine University artisan distiller training in Kentucky, I wrote about it for…

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  • spirits

For Peat's Sake

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on May 1, 2012March 23, 2020

Most of us love peat for the smoky, vegetal tang it gives to some Scotch.…

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  • travel

Mustique: Where Sustainable Meets Sybaritic

  • by Charlene Rooke
  • Posted on November 4, 2011May 1, 2020

I won a TMAC writing award for this Globe and Mail story about an unexpectedly…

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