Michael Dixon Smith is a Canadian

Canada

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 chef

Chef

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 and writer

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, host of The Inn Chef

The Inn Chef

The Inn Chef is a television show hosted by professionally trained chef Michael Smith."The Inn Chef" is filmed on site at Inn at Bay Fortune along with many locations in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. The Inn Chef creates menus that are imaginative and artistic...

, Chef at Home

Chef at Home

Chef at Home is a show presented by professionally trained chef Michael Smith. It is filmed at the Farmhouse at the Cove home in Prince Edward Island...

, Chef at Large and Chef Abroad (all of which have appeared on the Food Network Canada

Food Network Canada

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Born in the state of New York, United States of America. Michael Smith graduated with honours from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America

Culinary Institute of America

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 in New York

New York

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 in 1991. He then worked in restaurants in London

London

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, South America

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, and the Caribbean

Caribbean

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 before coming back to North America

North America

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 to cook in different restaurants in Manhattan

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In 1992, Smith joined Prince Edward Island’s now famous country inn, The Inn at Bay Fortune in Fortune Bridge, Prince Edward Island

Fortune Bridge, Prince Edward Island

Fortune Bridge is a small unincorporated area on Lot 43, East Parish, King County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is located west of the Town of Souris....

, which was soon regarded as one of Canada's top 10 restaurants with the chef noted for his intense focus on regionalism and the foods of Prince Edward Island.

Six years later, Smith’s television show The Inn Chef debuted on the Life Network and later moved to Food Network Canada.