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An experienced food writer friend once warned me to be suspicious of invitations from restaurants whenever a *free* meal was involved, explaining how difficult he found it to write objective and credible accounts of the…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: April Fools', fish, Nancy Wong, Poisson d'Avril, Provence Marinaside, restaurants, review, vancouver | 2 Comments »
Last spring, while in Tokyo, I made an early-morning trip to the famous Tsukiji fish market. It was meant to be a pilgrimage of sorts but ended up being an unsettling experience. I’ve thought a lot over the last…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Friday, July 10th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: environment, ethics, fish, Seafood | 10 Comments »
It goes without saying that it will rain the day after you take your umbrella out of your purse and by the same token, I should have known that a trendy, tasty Italian restaurant would open up in the culinary dead-zone…
Posted by: Degan Beley on Monday, January 26th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: chick peas, chinatown, fish, italian, Pasta, polenta, pork, restaurant, review, Risotto, sausage, steak, vancouver, Wine | 2 Comments »
Last weekend, I went to a Chinese wedding banquet. If you’ve never been, you should try to wrangle yourself an invitation to eat the twelve-course meal. You read right, it’s a twelve-course meal. We had:…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Monday, January 12th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chicken, chinese, cookies, fish, lobster, wedding | 2 Comments »
It doesn’t happen always, but every summer my pals Owen, Clint and I try to get out to Sooke on Vancouver Island and go fishing for some salmon. Last week it all came together, and with wives and girlfriends along,…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Friday, August 25th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chinook, fish, fishing, Seafood, sockeye, sooke | No Comments »
When having dinner in the South of Croatia, it’s not uncommon to find yourself in the company of a four-legged friend. On this particular night in Hvar Town, I sat down with a Weimaraner and enjoyed a particularly…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Croatia, dog, fish, Hvar Town, Seafood | 1 Comment »
A little while ago I was researching Ikan Bakar (grilled fish) online and came across this most fantastic blog, Masak-Masak. Boo_licious, as she dubs herself, lives in Kay-El, Malaysia and takes every opportunity to…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: fish, grilling, ikan bakar, Masak-Masak, Mayalsia | No Comments »
INGREDIENTS : 4 small or 2 medium-sized Mackerels – kept whole and cleaned 1 cup coconut milk 1 tbsp sugar juice of 1 lemon salt 3-4 fresh limau kasturi (kalamansi limes), cut into halves (Substitute: kaffir lime…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, September 26th, 2005
Categories: Meditations | Tags: BBQ, fish, Malaysian, recipe, Seafood | No Comments »