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At the age of about eight I remember a class field trip to the Museum of Vancouver. We’d seen quite a lot, but it was the small piece of succulent sockeye cooked with a hot rock in a cedar bentwood box that seared…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, March 5th, 2015
Categories: Meditations | Tags: barbecue, BBQ, first nation, salmon, sechelt, video, West Coast First Nations Food | 2 Comments »
For most kids with a fairly normal upbringing, fair food is comfort food. Gorging yourself on too much sugar, too much fat and too much fun was a right of passage. Sure, the elegant food snob has transcended that greasy…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 13th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Ben Garfinkel, Deep Fried, Fair, Foodists, mark busse, Pacific National Exhibition, Playland, PNE, vancouver | 3 Comments »
The ‘heat’ referenced in the post title is as much about competition as it is about spice At Foodists, we get a fair amount of attention from PR people pitching all manner of restaurants, products, etc. As a…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 17th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: asian cooking, Blue Dragon, brandade, charity, cod, recipe | 1 Comment »
Two summers ago in 2010 it was a record year for the BC salmon run here, the best since 1913 apparently. 2010 was also my father’s seventieth birthday and my brother Nathan and I wanted to get him something that…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, August 6th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: british columbia salmon run, butchers of gastown, fishing, sockeye salmon | No Comments »
I think my mother once tried to serve us muesli when we were kids. This was back in the day when Cheerios and milk was our standard and anything else for breakfast was considered sacrilege. You want me to put yogurt in…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, June 4th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Breakfast, contest, Dorset cereal, muesli | 13 Comments »
…Yogurt! Sorry, couldn’t resist. I remember my dad once bought one of those Salton home yogurt makers. He made a batch. It sucked. We never used it again. As a result, yogurt never played a huge roll in my…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: fat free yogurt, Greek yogurt, Liberté, yogurt | 3 Comments »
Recently we were invited to partake in a good ‘ol fashioned Southern pig pickin’ to mark the 10th anniversary of venerable low ‘n slow barbeque joint Memphis Blues BBQ House. Started by George Siu and…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, January 9th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: barbecue, BBQ, george siu, Memphis Blues, park heffelfinger | 1 Comment »
Maybe you caught the Q&A with Roger Mooking on this recent post, or the latest video in which Mark and Ben interview him in our favourite underground sausage making facility, D-Original? Well, if either of those leave…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Categories: Meditations | Tags: contest, cookbook, D-Original Sausage, everyday exotic, Roger Mooking, video | 2 Comments »
You’re either a wine person or you’re going to be one. When you start out, you might be less inclined to spend the big money on a single bottle of wine because, well, you don’t get what makes a wine…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Categories: Meditations | Tags: contest, Natalie MacLean, Wine, wine bargain | 7 Comments »
The Butchers of Gastown (BOG) is all about sharing in the sourcing of a whole beast (or beasts), learning how to take them apart and then making a feast fit for kings with little to no waste. Sharing being the operative…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Categories: Meditations | Tags: butchers of gastown, clams, crab, ethics, halibut, lobster, mussels, oysters, sablefish, Seafood, The Daily Catch, tuna, video | 1 Comment »
Last weekend my parents celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary. I suppose after 45 years you have your share of romantic dinners for two (and other stuff I don’t want to know about), so in recent years they like…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, August 26th, 2011
Categories: Guidance | Tags: 1960s, jello mould, meat pie, meat pie recipe, meatloaf, tortiere, wedding | No Comments »
Pssst, hey, wanna eat at an underground restaurant? Okay, slip on this blindfold and follow me! Well, it’s not quite like that, but it is fun, kind of like a friendly dinner party where you pay the host, and sort of…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Categories: Worship | Tags: Chef Steve, NFA, secret dining, underground restaurants | No Comments »
This past Saturday my wife warned me in advance that the coffee she made was “a little weak”. I asked why and she said that she let the Toddler measure the beans. While true that Lila has been helping me…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Categories: Meditations | Tags: 100 mile diet, coffee, Elysian Coffee, espro press | 5 Comments »
A special thanks and farewell to Foodists.ca Editor Degan Walters née Beley. She’s been instrumental in helping us keep things rolling behind (and in front) of the the scenes here for the last couple of years.…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Categories: Meditations | Tags: contributors, degan beley, Ethnic, ethnic eats, smokeysweet | 3 Comments »
There are a couple of places in Vancouver that have managed to successfully transcend their tourist appeal and evolve to offer locals plenty of reasons to convene at. Then again, maybe their original success has simply…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Categories: Worship | Tags: Bernard Casavant, Eating in BC, EBC, Edible British Columbia, Gastown, Granville Island Public Market, local food, Wild Apple Restaurant | 1 Comment »