Foodists is a collective of like-minded food worshippers. We breathe and sleep in order to eat and drink. Have something to share with us? We'd love to hear from you. If it's something to eat or drink, even better.
It’s like finding a 100 dollar bill in your pocket. Oooo, maybe it’s more like the sudden realization that you are in the middle of such a good book you can’t put it down. No, actually it’s exactly…
Posted by: Miles Harrison on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: alcohol, cocktails, event, lounge, vancouver | No Comments »
“This is to confirm your reservation for the media dinner aboard the Floating Dining Room.” On Friday afternoon, with two designers down and minor fires to be put out on all fronts, the above words sat buried…
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: C Restaurant, event, School of Fish Foundation, Seafood, sustainability | 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 »
Forget raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, a few of my favorite things are bourbon, single malt and beer. And by a stroke of hoppy, malty, genius, all three are on offer at Hopscotch, Vancouver’s beer and…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: alcohol, beer, event, Scotch, spirits, vancouver, whiskey, whisky | 3 Comments »
Far too many people still think of tequila as something to be shot back, followed by the requisite lime, salt and shudder, as evidenced by the raised eyebrows I got when I told people I was going to a tequila tasting. But…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: alcohol, cocktails, Don Julio, event, liquor, Pacific Goldfish Kitchen, spirits, tequila, vancouver, Yaletown | 1 Comment »
Definitions of Crush: 1. To extract or obtain (juice) by pressing or squeezing (grapes). 2. a great crowd. 3. (slang) an object of one’s affection. 4. Cornucopia’s gala tasting event. After a full day of…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: cornucopia, cornucopia09, crush, event, festival, Whistler, Wine, wine tasting | No Comments »
After a decade of die-hard vegetarianism, I`m now at the stage of gourmandism where I will eat almost anything without flinching, but some of the things that I won’t eat surprise people. Offal? Bring it. Horse?…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Friday, November 13th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: canapes, cocktails, endangered, event, fundraiser, shark, trivia, wild rice | 3 Comments »
Grabbing lunch and heading off to find a field or beach to dine en plein air is a timeless tradition, but in the middle of a city? less so, perhaps. And yet, a couple of weeks ago my friends and I sat down in a square in…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: al fresco, dessert, event, outside, picnic, potluck, spontaneous | 1 Comment »
Spending the long weekend in Kingston, Ontario had an unexpected reward: Fare on the Square An homage to the farmers market and local products, Fare on the Square provided 12 local restaurants with products from vendors…
Posted by: Alexa Clark on Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: event, farmers market, kingston, tasting | No Comments »
1. It’s not just about wine. This year there was a CheeseCamp track too. Yes, real, serious, delicious conversations about cheese. 2. You’d have understood that if you forget your wine country map that’s…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: booze, cheese, CheeseCampVan09, event, pairings, VCCC09, VinoCamp, VinoCampVan09, Wine | No Comments »
Don’t forget that tomorrow, August 8th, is VinoCamp Vancouver 2009, with the first annual CheeseCamp! Various Foodists will be in the crowd at UBC’s Grad Student Centre, likely half-cut on wines from Mark…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 7th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cheese, CheeseCamp, event, UBC, vancouver, VinoCamp, Wine | No Comments »
If you’re reading this, it’s very likely that you enjoy good coffee and appreciate conversation with interesting people. Then we’re like-minded. Join Foodists at Likemind Vancouver, a social movement…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: coffee, Elysian, event, Likemind, vancouver | 1 Comment »
What goes better with good wine than a fine cheese? That’s right—nothing! Which is why the organizers of the second annual VinoCamp Vancouver 09 have added CheeseCamp to their educational sessions and tasting…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cheese, CheeseCamp, event, UBC, vancouver, VinoCamp, Wine | 5 Comments »
Wow, did Anthony just say that in front of 200 marketing professionals? Yup, seems so. This is how the BCAMA wine & cheese event began recently—an evening promising lessons about how great wine makes farming sexy;…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: anthony nicalo, BCAMA, canada, cheese, event, farmstead, marketing, vancouver, Wine | 2 Comments »
On March 12, 2009, more than 200 participating restaurants will donate 25% of that day’s food profits to A Loving Spoonful and Friends for Life, two Vancouver agencies that support people living with HIV/AIDS.…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: 2009, charity, event, Friends for Life, Loving Spoonful, vancouver | 1 Comment »