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Since I am very rarely further than arm’s length from my iPhone – in or out of the kitchen – I’ve amassed several food and drink related apps. Here are some of my favorites. What are yours? <…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: app, internet, iPhone, tool | 4 Comments »
Trafalgar’s Restaurant in Kits, best known for having the largest dessert menu in the city, is changing gears with a specially organized Ocean Wise Dinner this Sunday, July 25th. They’ve had an Ocean Wise…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: oceanwise, Seafood, sustainable | No Comments »
With the almost cult following that bacon has, I always figured there had to be similar pockets of food obsession so I was quite tickled to see an invite to an “endive gala” in my inbox a few weeks ago. A…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: endive, event | No Comments »
Market at Shangri-la’s first winemaker’s dinner saw French-styled Okanagan favorite Le Vieux Pin – including an inaugural sip of a syrah/viognier blend from the barrel – paired with some delectable…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Monday, June 7th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: dinner, market, Okanagan, pairing, Wine | No Comments »
Photo Credit: Gruntzooki It’s rhubarb season. Last week at the farmer’s market the guy in front of me loaded up on no less than 11 bundles and I watched anxiously, hoping there would be some left.…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Friday, June 4th, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: pie, pudding, recipe, rhubarb, spring | 2 Comments »
Photo credit: Todd Smith It all started with a pig called Wanda. Then some members of the Foodists collective went on a road trip to Clinton, BC to pick out some lambs from Cutter Ranch. Now one of their fine animals has…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Friday, May 28th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: angus, angus II, angusII, butcher, butchers of gastown, butchery, cooking, Cutter Ranch, lamb, meat | 7 Comments »
Maybe your comfort food is macaroni and cheese, maybe it’s tomato soup. For Andrew Wong, the owner of Vancouver’s esteemed Wild Rice, it’s congee and sui mai and barbecued pork cha siu…the favorite…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: asian, Comfort, culture, festival, heritage | 1 Comment »
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Posted by: Degan Beley on Friday, March 26th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: poll, prize, questions, survey | No Comments »
Charlie’s, newly opened in Yaletown, thinks there’s an alternative to the 4 AM drunken, soggy pizza by the slice. Instead, they’ve opened a swish little lounge in the old Pinky’s space that has…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: lounge, pizza, Yaletown | No Comments »
One of the most talked up restaurants of the summer finally opened with a page of press before they even got started, and it seems like it’s now about to get some more. Corner Suite Bistro de Luxe opened in time for…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: Anthony Sedlak, bar, bistro, cocktails | No Comments »
There are a lot of people in town celebrating national pride and a large part of that is culinary. “Houses” (more like tents in most cases) have sprung up all over town draped in the colours of their homeland.…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: beer, mustard, Olympics, pavillion, perogies, raclette, sausage, temporary | 1 Comment »
There’s a new dog in town, just in time for the Olympics. For the roving hordes on Granville Street who don’t want slices of pizza, there’s now Dougie Dog. All natural dogs served up in L.A. rockstar…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: cheap, hot dog, late night, snack, Street Food | 3 Comments »
I’m not really a fan of junk food – or “road food” as Tom Robbins calls it in Another Roadside Attraction – which makes heading out on a road trip somewhat less exciting in the eating department. Last year,…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Monday, February 15th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: chain, mexican, road trip, U.S.A. | 3 Comments »
What’s Robbie Burns day without haggis? If you can’t have haggis, you at least need whisky. I’m a traditionalist, so I like to do both if I can and I wrote about the whisky yesterday. Robbie Burns Day is…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: culture, haggis, holiday, potato, Scotch | 1 Comment »
When I was young, Robbie Burns Day meant highland dancing in some sort of festival, but now that I know better, it has come to mean whisky. Robbie Burns day is the closest thing to a Scotch national holiday and while…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Monday, February 1st, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: holiday, Scotch, shebeen, whiskey, whisky | No Comments »