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Avocado Salsa (measured for 1 1/2 cups of Arborio rice) 3 avocados (diced) A handful of vine tomatos (diced) 1/2 Shallot (diced) 1 Lime juiced Prep the salsa ahead of time and just fold it in and you’ve got…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: avocado, chardonnay, Risotto, seasonal food, shallots, tomato, Wine | 4 Comments »
Our friend Natalie MacLean—a dedicated “Foodist”, wine expert, and author of the wildly popular Nat Decants website www.nataliemaclean.com—has just released Canada’s first wine & food mobile…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 19th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: app, BlackBerry, food pairing, iPhone, mobile, Nat Decants, Natalie MacLean | No Comments »
Foodists, foodie….whatever you wanna be called, it’s people who love food. Really love it. They can have long conversations criticizing, rhapsodizing and just plain obsessing about it. Sound familiar? On one of…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Friday, May 29th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: China, Diary of a Foodie, drunken chicken, dumplings, fatty pork, food, foodie, foodist, glutinous rice, Gourmet, italy, James Beard, Jose Andres, leaves, New Zealand, olive oil, Oro Liquido, Parmigiano-Reggiano, public television, rice, series, spain, sugar, television, Travel, WGBH, zongzi | 2 Comments »
/caption] This is my first post on foodists.ca so if you are interested, a little bit about me. I come from farmers. Unknown generations of them. As far back as our genealogy has been compiled, there are farmers and…
Posted by: Evan Leeson on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: family, food, history, local, motivation, organic, provenance, tradition | No Comments »
A librarian friend of mine turned me on to this book. The alternate title could have easily been Zen And The Art Of Owning A Small Restaurant, for its unconventional culinary philosophy and total lack of ego. Half…
Posted by: Colin Kohler on Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: American Food, cookbook, Eat Me, Kenny Shopsin, New York, recipes | 3 Comments »
/caption] Canstruction Vancouver is a spectacular competition and exhibition that showcases local teams who compete to design and build the ultimate giant sculpture out of canned food. After they’re exhibited to…
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Canstruction, charity, Food Bank, volunteer | No 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 »
Takumi Japanese restaurant is a great little Japanese restaurant in West Vancouver. It’s in a bit of an isolated area near Thunderbird Marina on Marine Drive. It wasn’t very busy when we went but I think that it…
Posted by: Lisa Nakamura on Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: Japanese-food, restaurant, review, sushi, West Vancouver | No Comments »
Following my previous article on Terroni and the search for Vancouver restaurants that served bucatini all’amatriciana, my husband decided to make it himself. Joseph found two key ingredients at the Granville Island…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Babbo, bacon, Bosa Foods, bucatini, David Rocco, Duso's Pasta & Cheese, fat, flavour, Granville Island Public Market, guanciale, italian, Mario Batali, noodles, olive oil, Oyama Sausage, Pasta, pecorino cheese, pig, recipe, tomato | 11 Comments »
/caption] It seems that Spam is a “love it or hate it” ingredient; it makes some smile and it makes many people gag, but it’s a selection that Steph and I often consider at our local haunts. It can be…
Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: food, fun, instruction, Meats, recipes, Spam | 4 Comments »
/caption] Anybody who knows me, knows that I love food — particularly hamburgers. So after being prodded and poked here is my list of favourite burgers. As a side note my criteria is based around the idea of the…
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: California, cheese, Dick's Drive In, fast food culture, Five Guys, hamburger, In-n-Out, philadelphia, Seattle, Splitz, The Counter | 21 Comments »
Our old friend Mark Holland (coolest radio voice ever) and his colleague Janine de la Salle have published a terrific article entitled Food For Thought in today’s West Coast News section of The Vancouver Sun. In…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: article, janine dela salle, local food, mark holland, town planning, vancouver sun | 2 Comments »
Hot beef sundae. Corn dog pizza. French fry-encased hot dog on a stick. Turbaconucken. Deep-fried Coca-Cola. Deep dish pizza vending machine. In-N-out 100×100 burger. Deep-fried twinkie on a stick dipped in chocolate…
Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: fat, food, fun, junk, love | 1 Comment »
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 | 4 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 »