emberjs providing data for multiple components

I have an Ember 2.11 application template with a few component placeholders at the moment (menu, breadcrumbs, related items) and an outlet which displays the main content which works fine. Now that I'm feeling more comfortable with the basics, I'm ready to try getting the breadcrumbs working.

I read about services, but I don't see that it is the right solution for breadcrumbs because it doesn't need to be persistent, it is based off the route. Although it is based off the route, I don't want to use the route literally as I want to use nice titles, and when viewing a specific item, the route doesn't accurately reflect what the breadcrumbs should show.

Since the breadcrumbs is based off the model that is being used for the display, I feel that I should be able to construct a breadcrumb object and then pass that into the component from the application template. I suppose this was the purpose of the controller back in the day. My thought was in the route to construct a breadcrumb object/property and return it with the model like RSVP and then I could access both in the template to pass the appropriate object to the appropriate component. But that seems wrong as the route should return an Ember data object, promise or Javascript array.

My current line of thinking is along these lines.

template/application.hbs

route/category/show

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  model(params) {
    let recipe = this.get('store').query('recipe', { category: params.category_id});
    let crumbs = [{name: 'Category', link: 'category'},
                  {name: recipe.category.title, link: 'category.show', target: recipe.category.id}];
    return {recipe: recipe, breadcrumbs: crumbs};
  }
});

I'm not sure if this is the right way to approach this or if this will cause problems with async data fetching with Ember data. Something like this I would have to define on each route, but I don't have a lot of routes and seems to offer flexibility when I'm displaying a recipe (route is /recipe/recipe_id), but have the breadcrumbs show Home > Categories > Main Dishes > My Awesome Dish.

How would you approach the problem?