Trish Magwood has years of experience as a successful food entrepreneur, business owner, teacher and chef. She has revolutionized the notion of a food experience through her creative service company dish cooking studio.

She built and created dish as a school for scheduled and corporate cooking classes, a full service catering company, a boutique kitchen store, and a gourmet café.

Trish also created and hosts party dish - (Food Network Canada, Life Network) an entertaining and lifestyle television show sharing her passion for food and entertaining. Party dish is a half hour hosted television series that shows urban food enthusiasts how to plan and execute dinner parties, effortlessly and elegantly – empowering them to brilliantly entertain with good food. Trish’s role on party dish is the same role she has at dish – a generalist and connector who creates innovative culinary experiences.

Trish has written her first cookbook- dish entertains (Harper Collins), which shares menus, ‘best of’ recipes and tips for everyday simple to special occasion events. dish entertains is available Fall 2007 at dish and internationally through bookstores.

Trish is a freelance food and lifestyle consultant who has written for the Globe & Mail. Her corporate relationships include those with RBC, Dell and Corona.

Trish got her formal training at Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School, worked as a private chef and catered professionally for nine years with her own company before launching dish. Trish is a member of the International Academy of Culinary Professionals (IACP) and the Women’s Culinary Network (WCN). Trish and dish have extensive media support (Globe & Mail “Tastemakers of Tomorrow”, Toronto Life, Style at Home, Canadian House and Home, National Post, Martha Stewart Weddings, CBC Radio, Toronto Star, Chatelaine, Canadian Living), does frequent appearances and shows and is an active part of Toronto’s food community.