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@goodlifevan i live a block away. Pricey but i like the quality of the produce. Have yet to try the meat or fish. Try it! /sm
Just found some smoked mozza at The new Greens on broadway. Gotta find crackers now... /sm (Link) Follow Us On Twitter
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…
Posted by: Boris Mann on Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: British Columbia Heritage Cookbook, cookbooks, Cooking in Switzerland, New York Times Cook Book, Salvation Army, Thomas Haas | 3 Comments »
I often fail to finish reading a book because of I have an attention span of a pigeon, and I get so overly excited about a new book that I jump onto it forgetting that the other book was unfinished. This wasn’t so…
Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: book review, In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan, omnivore's dilemma | 1 Comment »
This month’s contest prize is a copy of author, farmer, and slow food activist David Mas Masumoto’s latest book Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land. (Free Press/Simon and Schuster,…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: book, contest, David Mas Masumoto, farming, memories, Wisdom of the last Farmer | 4 Comments »
Affordable accessibility is a by-product of any economic downturn and as publishers reel from the effects, books are hitting the streets at VERY affordable prices! Recent finds from Bloomsbury publishing house include…
Posted by: Johnathon Vaughn on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Books, offal | 3 Comments »
I travel with my stomach. I just love experiencing other cultures through their food. Living in Vancouver I’m pretty lucky to be able to travel around the world without going more than a couple kilometers. Living…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: bbq salmon, Camus cook book, First Nations Cuisine, First Nations recipes, Lilliget Feasthouse, Slow Food, West Coast First Nations Food | 2 Comments »
I would be quite remiss if I failed to write about food books that DO include visuals, whether it be sumptuous food photography by the likes of John Sherlock & Quentin Bacon or excellent how-to, step-by-step demos…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Friday, February 6th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Books, bourdain, Cioppino's, cookbooks, Feenie, food, French Laundry, Jamie Oliver, Jeffrey Alford, John Bishop, Martha Stewart, Martin Picard, Masaharu Morimoto, Naomi Duguid, Nigel Slater, Nobu, Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, photography, Pied de Cochon, Ramsay, Thomas Keller, Travel, vij's, Williams-Sonoma | 5 Comments »
I love to read. I love to travel. I love food. I love all 3 combined. Sound familiar? So what’s a girl (or guy) to do when you can’t carry Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry Cookbook in your purse (or manbag) to…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: book, bourdain, celebrity, chef, cook, culinary, Ellerbee, food, humor, journalism, kitchen, learn, recipe, school, training, Travel | 3 Comments »
Though maybe technically a cookbook, it’s not really. The Album celebrates the 5th anniversary of Au Pied de Cochon and chronicles life at the restaurant over a one year period. It features numerous stories,…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, July 28th, 2008
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Anthony-Bourdain, Au Pied de Cochon, Books, cookbook, Martin Picard, The Album | No Comments »
I’ve mentioned Rockin’ Ronnie Shewchuck here before. He’s one of the original local competitive bbq gurus, and author of two, dare I say, defacto, books on bbq: Barbeque Secrets and Planking Secrets.…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, July 28th, 2008
Categories: Worship | Tags: Barbeque Secrets, BBQ, Books, Butt Shredders, Canadian National BBQ Championships, house-of-q, Planking Secrets, Ron Shewchuck | 1 Comment »
Recently I became a father to a wonderful little girl, Lila. In the weeks and months leading up to her arrival Andrea and I spent a huge amount of time painting the house, getting rid of stuff (to make room for the 8lb…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 27th, 2008
Categories: Meditations | Tags: baby, book, literature, teaching | No Comments »
Last holiday season my wife received a wonderful and very personal gift from her mother; a binder filled with all the recipes she enjoyed from her childhood right up to the present. It was all neatly typed, laid out…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Categories: Guidance | Tags: blurb, bon_appetit, book, cookbook, epicurious, gourmet_magazine, TasteBook | No Comments »
Confused yet? In his recent article in the London Review of Books, Stephen Shapin gives us his thoughts on Bill Buford’s rather lengthily titled Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook,…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Friday, January 19th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Bill Buford, Books, heat, literature | No Comments »
The Cookbook Store just sent out its Best Seller list for 2006. If you’ve never visited The Cookbook Store in Toronto you are in for a treat. It’s a specialty bookstore dedicated to all things great in…
Posted by: Alexa Clark on Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: book, cookbook, Toronto | No Comments »
Here’s a blast from the past. A few years ago we retired our old website, but it’s still there, hiding on our server. Today I was poking around it just for sh!ts and giggles and re-discovered a recipe for…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Bizarre, book, meat, recipe | No Comments »
“There’s nothing more annoying than food geeks taking photos of their plates of food and posting them on their blog.” I nearly choked on my sip of ice cold Pale Ale on Sunday night when I heard…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: Anthony-Bourdain, book, CBC, chef, Les Halles, Nasty Bits, review, Yale | 5 Comments »