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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 Walters on Friday, November 13th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: canapes, cocktails, endangered, event, fundraiser, shark, trivia, wild rice | 3 Comments »
The other day I was talking about regionalism in food and what determines what dishes get to represent a culture abroad. “Take Thai food,” I said, “Northern Thai cuisine is really quite different from…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: class, cooking, curry, Don Dickerson, duck, grilled beef salad, instruction, nam prik, Northern Thai, pork, relish, rice, South China Seas, thai, vancouver | No Comments »
I have a confession to make. I don’t like chocolate all that much. I don’t hate it and I’ve certainly been known to have a square of cacao or two with my espresso, but the excitement of going to a…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: alcohol, cacao, chocolate, festival, liquor, pairing, Scotch, single malt, vancouver, wccf, wccf09, whiskey, whisky | 2 Comments »
As soon as it gets cold out and the umbrellas start cluttering sidewalks, I start thinking about comfort food and while the de facto comfort food in my family is really mashed potatos, I usually end up with pasta. What…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Monday, November 9th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: campagnolo, Cioppino's, il nido, italian, marcello, noodles, Pasta, restaurant, vancouver | 4 Comments »
My beef with restaurants that don’t take reservations is that it doesn’t make sense to the customer (me, at least) to stand around and wait when I know where and when I want to eat. But what if it makes sense…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: batali, charcuterie, coppa, cured meat, lunch, meat, pioneer square, roadtrip, salami, sandwich, Seattle | 6 Comments »
This past summer, knowing how much I like to know about food happenings around town, a client dropped a copy of Montecristo Magazine off for me. The cover article was about the beginning of Vancouver’s culinary…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Monday, October 12th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: journlism, magazine, print | No 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 Walters on Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: al fresco, dessert, event, outside, picnic, potluck, spontaneous | 1 Comment »
There’s not many things that will get me to Kits on a fireworks night. Certainly not the fireworks. But we had a reservation at Maenam that I was not about to pass up. My sister and I loved Gastropod and I had heard…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Monday, August 17th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: cocktail, coconut, curry, duck, ginger, heat, lime, noodles, pad-thai, restaurant, review, rice, rice pudding, sausage, spicy | 3 Comments »
I keep telling people I want to move to Spain, and my friends, knowing I love both cooking and books, keep giving me Spanish cookbooks. At some point I realized that I had amassed several of them and not yet made anything…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | | 7 Comments »
When it’s this hot out, one of my favorite patio drinks is limoncello with vodka, crushed ice, fresh mint and soda. It’s so refreshing and delicious and goes down just a little too easily. I was thinking about…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: alchohol, lemon, recipe, sugar, sweet, vodka | 5 Comments »
Photo credit: Steve Mynett It was suggested, almost at the beginning of the Foodists BBQ Bootcamp put on by Rockin’ Ronnie Shewchuk, that anyone who didn’t feel like they could mix wines in the same glass was…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: barbecue bootcamp, Barbecue Secrets, BBQ, bbq course, bbqcamp, cedar plank, Foodists, lamb, meat, Rockin' Ronnie Shewchuck | 2 Comments »
It seemed like not very much time passed between hearing about Social Bites, meeting Annika and Jules asking me to be her sous-chef in the next dinner. That momentum carried over to choosing a theme based on our travels…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | | 1 Comment »
I tend to not pay much attention to recipes when I rip them out of magazines (or bookmark them). It’s sort of like, ooooh, that looks good. I’m going to make that! And then realize that I don’t have a…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Categories: Guidance | | 8 Comments »
It came about not too long ago that I was told about a restaurant I’d never heard of. That doesn’t happen very often so my first assumption was that it didn’t exist. Pear? Pere? Pair? Pare? Hearing it…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Monday, May 18th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: oysters, Pair Bistro, restaurant, review, salmon | No Comments »
I was a bit dubious when “Rime”, a Turkish restaurant on Commercial Drive, re-opened as a Japanese joint called, Lime. But it looked intriguing and I love Japanese food, so eventually got to check it out and…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Monday, May 11th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: music, restaurant, review, sashimi, sushi, tapas | 4 Comments »