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Dining Out for Life: March 25, 2010

Most people are pretty excited when they find out that I write a chocolate blog. They think it’s fun and frivolous and maybe just a little bit glamorous. Well, I’m still waiting for the glamour part, but …

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Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
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5 Reasons Why Provenance Matters

Seared Tenderloin with braised spinach, tomato confit, tomato powder and peanut veloute.
This lovely looking dish is actually death on a plate. In the past year there have been massive recalls of spinach, tomatoes,…

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Posted by: Anthony Nicalo on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
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I Gave Up Meat and Dessert for Canada’s Gold

The streets were eerily quiet last Sunday morning before the men’s gold medal hockey game, Canada v.s. the US. Line-ups of fans were winding around the block outside bars, all decked in red.
My friends and I…

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Posted by: Melody Fury on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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Is it wrong to want to steal another mans sausage?

I pride myself that I have never stolen anything in my whole life. But every morning as I walk my daughter to daycare I pass a house and see sausages just hanging outside the window. I am now tempted to steal every single…

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Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Saturday, February 13th, 2010
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Where’s Perry?

I first heard of Perry while watching a great little show from the UK called ‘Oz and James Drink to Britain‘ where they try to find the one true drink that best represents Britain. Perry is very similar to…

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Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, February 11th, 2010
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The Lemon Meringue Tart From Hell

French lemon tart is, naturally, more complicated than your average lemon tart. It’s a four-component dessert: sweet dough, almond cream, lemon custard, Italian meringue. It happened to be the focus of the fourth lesson…

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Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Sunday, February 7th, 2010
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Beets’n'Blue

I was walking by beautiful bunches of organic young golden beets when a stark realization hit me that I’d never cooked beets. Ashamed of myself, being a foodist and all, I grabbed a bunch and was determined to cook them…

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Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
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Used Cookbook Haul

Yesterday  I wandered the rainy streets of Kits sipping my first taste of Thomas Haas chocolate and ended up at the Salvation Army. I always look for used cookbooks that cover a particular ethnicity or from the…

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Posted by: Boris Mann on Sunday, January 31st, 2010
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Dave’s Vancouver Beer Guide 2010

It started innocently enough. “Who owns Okanagan Spring Brewing?” asked my wife one evening last week. “Sleeman, I think.”
But then I wondered… who owned Sleeman? And who owned them?…

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Posted by: Dave Shea on Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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Ready, Set…Drink

Not too long ago we received an unsolicited copy of the book Drinking Vancouver, 100 Great Bars in the City and Beyond by travel writer John Lee. As far as credentials go, I suppose being a British ex-pat makes him a…

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Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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Home is where the food is

I can’t count the times I’ve heard Mark say, “There’s something about being creative and loving food that goes hand-in-hand.” On top of that, I certainly can’t count the instances where…

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Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Sunday, January 17th, 2010
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Eating Provenance- My family’s “weird diet”

Some of you know that my 2010 resolution is to not eat or drink anything of which I don’t know the origins. It is a ton of research. It seems impossible to eat at a restaurant- yes, the best ones know most of their…

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Posted by: Anthony Nicalo on Friday, January 15th, 2010
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The Eternal Yogurt

When I found out how to make my own yogurt, I got excited. Not so much about the making of the yogurt, but more about the idea that my first batch will continue to breed more and more yogurt indefinitely, and that the…

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Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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Cookies! Share your recipes… please

At a very early age my mother taught my brothers and I how to bake. Instead of getting sweets in our lunches for school, the three of us each had to bake a batch on Sunday night for the upcoming week. On rare occasions…

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Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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The Beer Geek’s Guide to the Alibi Room’s 100th Beer List

In December, beer geeks (enthusiasts?) lined up early at the Alibi Room to celebrate an auspicious event – the Alibi’s 100th Beer List. Nigel Springthorpe types each list out by hand – on a typewriter…

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Posted by: Jer Thorp on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
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