ANDREW MORRISON | Editor

Andrew Morrison was born in Vancouver then schooled, raised, and rumpled in Toronto and Victoria before moving to South Africa to study history and classics at the University of Cape Town. After further study in similar fields at the University of Toronto, he married and started a successful career as a breeder of fine sons. He returned to Vancouver with his young family in 2002.

Between, during, after and instead of going to school, Andrew did prep, washed dishes, bussed tables, served and managed in restaurants before becoming the restaurant critic at the Westender in 2005.

In addition to his oversight of Scout and his weekly column on Vancouver’s vibrant restaurant scene, Morrison contributes to Western Living, Condé Nast Traveller, Monocle, Vancouver and Harry magazines, as well as the annual Van Mag Eating & Drinking Guide. He is the editor of the award-winning Vancouver Cooks cookbook (2010), the National Referee and BC Judge at the Canadian Culinary Championships, the instructor on “Food Writing In The Modern Media Landscape” at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, and a few things besides.

He lives and works in Strathcona with his wife and two kids, Jack and Pip.

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