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.
I loves me a good cupcake. Don’t you? There’s something slightly less guilty about eating a couple (or six) little cupcakes compared to stuffing your face with a thick slab of moist chocolate cake…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: challenge, competition, cupcakes, judge, Roundhouse, vancouver, Yaletown | 3 Comments »
Underground dining isn’t so underground anymore. And it’s about time!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: Chef Steve, NFA, restaurant, review, underground, vancouver | 3 Comments »
Hosted by the South Okanagan Wine Association each year, Banée was modeled after Burgundy’s famed Banée de Meursault, a wine industry celebration that marks the end of pruning and the beginning of a new season.…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: Banée, Okanagan, Passa Tempo, Sid Cross, South Okanagan, South Okanagan Wine Association, Spirit Ridge, Walnut Beach Resort, Watermark Beach Resort, Wine | No Comments »
An experienced food writer friend once warned me to be suspicious of invitations from restaurants whenever a *free* meal was involved, explaining how difficult he found it to write objective and credible accounts of the…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: April Fools', fish, Nancy Wong, Poisson d'Avril, Provence Marinaside, restaurants, review, vancouver | 2 Comments »
We’ve all heard stories about childhood food experiences, the memories of which scarred them for life. From my vegetarian friend’s story of eyeballs hanging from the eye sockets of a freshly clubbed, but still…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chicken, farm, lamb, meat, memories, murder, Uncle Henry, where food comes from | 4 Comments »
Travel is often defined by memories of food. Perhaps it’s the multi-sensory aspect of the experience, but it’s often the meals and snacks we try when on an adventure to some far away place that stick with us…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: 2010, Design Week, desingers, eating, food, Icograda, Olympics, restaurants, Travel, vancouver, winter | 1 Comment »
Last week was filled with food experiences for me. Some good, some rather horrible. I will briefly describe two for you. Discovery A few weeks ago, food writer Alexandra Gill wrote in a Globe And Mail article that Divino…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 25th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: accident, Divino, East Van, South China Seas, Victoria Drive | 3 Comments »
The entrance to the cellar at Salt Tasting Room in Vancouver. Last night I was pleased to attend the first Salt Cellar Tasting Series of 2010, featuring Oyama Sausage Company and Vista D’Oro Farms & Winery. John…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: charcuterie, cheese, Oyama, salt, sausage, Vista D'Oro, Wine | 2 Comments »
This post was supposed to be a review of the recent Night With Theo Chocolate event at The Refinery in Vancouver, but the event’s organizer and host Eagranie—a fellow Foodist—beat me to it, posting a terrific…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chocolate, Eagranie Yuh, Foodists, inspiration, Theo Chocolate, Wine | 7 Comments »
A warm welcome to our new Guest Contributor, Pailin Chongchitnant! Pailin (pronounced “pie-lin”) is from Thailand, but currently lives in San Francisco and studies at the California Culinary Academy. She’s a…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: contributor, Foodists, Pailin Chongchitnant | No Comments »
Everybody and their uncle has their special chili recipe, and they all swear theirs is the best. They all claim to have a secret, be it an unexpected ingredient or some special cooking technique. Well, to that I say…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 25th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: bullshit, chili, mark busse, moose, recipe | 28 Comments »
This month’s contest prize is a copy of author, farmer, and slow food activist David Mas Masumoto‘s latest book Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land. (Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 288…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: book, contest, David Mas Masumoto, farming, memories, Wisdom of the last Farmer | 5 Comments »
On our recent drive up to Clinton, BC to visit our lambs at Cutter Ranch we stopped at a roadside store to buy some local produce, dairy, and meat for the weekend. While browsing the shelves, something called birch syrup…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, August 10th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: bc, birch syrup, maple syrup, mark busse, Quesnel, Sweet Tree Ventures | 13 Comments »
Don’t forget that tomorrow, August 8th, is VinoCamp Vancouver 2009, with the first annual CheeseCamp! Various Foodists will be in the crowd at UBC’s Grad Student Centre, likely half-cut on wines from Mark…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 7th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cheese, CheeseCamp, event, UBC, vancouver, VinoCamp, Wine | No Comments »
A few hungry Foodists were recently invited to check out a new tapas-style restaurant opening on Davie called Mis Trucos. As this was a preview event, we got to sample some of Chef Kris Barnholden’s fare before the…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: Davie, Kris Barnholden, mediterranean, Mis Trucos, restaurant, tapas, vancouver | No Comments »