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The Wise Monkeys blog is a site that I’ve been following obsessively because of the great insider tips about Chinese food around Vancouver. Contributor Fernando is the one that also tipped me off about Nine Dishes,…
Posted by: Boris Mann on Monday, July 16th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Chinese Food, Hunan, Lucky Noodle, Luckynoodle, vancouver, Wise Monkeys | 1 Comment »
So there I am at Granville Island. And there’s a big lump of BC Wild Octopus just sitting there. I’ve never cooked anything other than baby octopus (stir fried quickly with garlic, butter, and wine). I had no…
Posted by: Boris Mann on Monday, April 19th, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Barcelona, garlic, Greek, lemon, octopus, polpo, tentacle | 4 Comments »
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’m facing a dilemma I’ve faced several times before. What to do about recipes? We don’t focus on churning out lots of start-to-finish recipes here on Foodists, mainly because it’s more about…
Posted by: Boris Mann on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Chicken Marsala, cooks illustrated, Fannie Farmer, Foodista, Joy of Cooking, recipes, rouxbe, rouxbe.com | 16 Comments »
A long time ago, I posted a European Food Shopping Tour to Urban Vancouver. More recently, I’ve been comparing notes and figuring that it’s time to start sharing local sources of great ingredients. Imagine my…
Posted by: Boris Mann on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | | 6 Comments »
Celeriac, for me, is comfort food. Now, rather than having you rush off to Google, let me link to the Celeriac Wikipedia entry for you. In short, it’s a varietal of celery that is grown not for its leafy top and…
Posted by: Boris Mann on Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: acidulated water, apium graveolens, celeriac, celery root | 5 Comments »