Foodists is a collective of like-minded food worshippers. We breathe and sleep in order to eat and drink. Have something to share with us? We'd love to hear from you. If it's something to eat or drink, even better.
People get wine, even if they don’t get wine. My parents proclaim Yellow Tail to be the best thing they’ve ever tasted, but even they understand that there’s a difference between Yellow Tail and…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: chocolate, chocolate tasting, the well-tempered chocolatier, vancouver, xoxolat | 1 Comment »
Life is too short for bad chocolate. If you’ve always wondered what that percentage on the chocolate bar label actually meant, or whether buying Fair Trade chocolate makes a difference, or just want to learn more…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chocolate, chocolate tasting, events, kafkas | 4 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but I have a tough time making decisions. I spend most of my day herding cats and correcting other people’s grammar, and when dinnertime rolls around, the last thing I want to do is…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Categories: Meditations | Tags: a loving spoonful, dining out for life, Friends for Life, fundraiser, sumac ridge | No Comments »
What’s your favourite Chinese restaurant? Care to share? How about casting a vote in the HSBC Chinese Restaurant Awards Diners’ Choice Awards? Voting runs from October 6 until November 12 and results will be…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Friday, October 8th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: chinese, chinese restaurant awards, vancouver | No Comments »
Chinese people take their food very seriously. My mom makes a weekly trek to a place in Richmond (sssh, it’s a secret) to buy roast duck and pork with skin so crispy that it shatters when you look at it. When I was…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: awards, chinese, vancouver | 3 Comments »
I’ve tasted a lot of chocolate. While I try to be objective, I definitely have my favourites. Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to meet some of the chocolate makers behind my favourite bars.…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: amano, chocolate, claudio-corallo, patric, pralus, xoxolat | No Comments »
Most people are pretty excited when they find out that I write a chocolate blog. They think it’s fun and frivolous and maybe just a little bit glamorous. Well, I’m still waiting for the glamour part, but…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: a loving spoonful, dining out for life, Friends for Life, fundraiser, vancouver | 3 Comments »
French lemon tart is, naturally, more complicated than your average lemon tart. It’s a four-component dessert: sweet dough, almond cream, lemon custard, Italian meringue. It happened to be the focus of the fourth lesson…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: almond, disaster, french, lemon, tart | 6 Comments »
‘Tis the season…to drink lots of whisky! December 8th 2009 marks a very special evening. The Refinery and Cask Strength present “Immaculate Conception,” an evening dedicated to joys of whiskey and…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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“Hey, do you want to take a flavour trip?” What started as a pretty normal Sunday afternoon quickly became a mind-bending taste excursion featuring the much-touted miracle fruit. The science of it isn’t…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | | 6 Comments »
Artisan chocolate. Farmstead wine. Hand-crafted cocktails. Sweet and savoury chocolate canapes. Interested yet? Mark your calendars for Friday, November 20th. We’ll be highlighting the best of Theo Chocolate, the…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | | 2 Comments »
Well, here we are in mid-September. I don’t have kids, but my if my kid memory serves me right, there should be slews of essays bouncing around with variations on the title of “what I did on my summer…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Sunday, September 13th, 2009
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I had the privilege of being a judge at CupcakeCamp Vancouver last week, which raised an enormous amount of money for the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. The idea of judging is great: show up, eat cupcakes, judge…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cupcake, judging, vancouver | 2 Comments »
What is it about guilt that makes it so delicious? Whether it’s sleeping in, watching hours of TV, or listening to Bon Jovi, there’s something indulgent about doing something you’re not supposed to. And…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: junk, oreo, pocky, popcorn, sandwich | 14 Comments »
Where does your food come? More importantly, why should you care? With labels being greenwashed more than ever, it’s hard to wade through the sea of information and figure out what’s true and what’s…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Monday, April 13th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: events, farmstead, provenance, vancouver | No Comments »