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It started innocently enough. “Who owns Okanagan Spring Brewing?” asked my wife one evening last week. “Sleeman, I think.” But then I wondered… who owned Sleeman? And who owned them? And that…
Posted by: Dave Shea on Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: bc, beer, brew pubs, breweries, brewpubs, guide, microbreweries, vancouver | 32 Comments »
Not too long ago we received an unsolicited copy of the book Drinking Vancouver, 100 Great Bars in the City and Beyond by travel writer John Lee. As far as credentials go, I suppose being a British ex-pat makes him a…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: 2010 winter games, beer, drinking vancouver, john lee, vancouver 2010, vancouver bars, vancouver drinking guide | 4 Comments »
I can’t count the times I’ve heard Mark say, “There’s something about being creative and loving food that goes hand-in-hand.” On top of that, I certainly can’t count the instances where…
Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: local, local food, vancouver, video | 1 Comment »
Some of you know that my 2010 resolution is to not eat or drink anything of which I don’t know the origins. It is a ton of research. It seems impossible to eat at a restaurant- yes, the best ones know most of their…
Posted by: Anthony Nicalo on Friday, January 15th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: food origins, provenance | No Comments »
When I found out how to make my own yogurt, I got excited. Not so much about the making of the yogurt, but more about the idea that my first batch will continue to breed more and more yogurt indefinitely, and that the…
Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: homemade yogurt, yogurt | 8 Comments »
At a very early age my mother taught my brothers and I how to bake. Instead of getting sweets in our lunches for school, the three of us each had to bake a batch on Sunday night for the upcoming week. On rare occasions…
Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | | 5 Comments »
In December, beer geeks (enthusiasts?) lined up early at the Alibi Room to celebrate an auspicious event – the Alibi’s 100th Beer List. Nigel Springthorpe types each list out by hand – on a typewriter…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: alibi room, beer, brewing, Gotheck norwegian demi-god lord and master of all things | 1 Comment »
This year, a simple, food-themed baby tree with entirely handmade decorations adorns my brick loft. I strung up some stale candy and yogurt pretzels and sprayed it down with hair spray. I usually trim the bendy ends off…
Posted by: Melody Fury on Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: candy, Christmas, holidays | 1 Comment »
While I’m not necessarily a fan of highly caloric, eat-for-protein, “Hungry Man”-type meals, put me in Colombia and I will gladly consume the bandeja paisa with relish. OK, to be honest, I only ate it once during my…
Posted by: Laura Siciliano-Rosen on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: bandeja paisa, Breakfast, Colombia, Queens, Travel | 4 Comments »
The BC Hospitality Expo last month had the usual assortment of entertainment accoutrements, but we were there to judge one half of the Sortilège Cup. Hosted by Nons Drinks, this was a battle between the sexes to see who…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Monday, December 14th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: alcohol, bartending, contest, cup, expo, liquor, sortilege, spirits | No Comments »
Gastown has a dense concentration of watering holes so unsurprisingly, it also boasts of some of the finest cocktail establishments in the city. In a neighbourhood founded on alcohol, the question isn’t “where can we…
Posted by: Melody Fury on Friday, December 11th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: alcohol, bartending, Mixology, Sortilege Cup | 8 Comments »
With vegetarianism practically a sacrilege amongst our collective (don’t even mention it in front of some), and vegan being the dirtiest five-letter word around these parts, it might seem odd that we’re…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 7th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: contest, cookbook, moosewood restaurant, vegan, Vegetarian | 13 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 »
‘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
Categories: Meditations | | No Comments »
When I watched Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares UK Special this past January, he didn’t hold back about some of his own successful restaurants suffering due to the credit crunch. That was true for dining…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Cioppino's, coast, cookbooks, Gordon Ramsay, homecooking, Jamie Oliver, Les Faux Bourgeois, Maenam, Pied A Terre, The Irish Heather, Thomas Keller, Trattoria Italian Kitchen | 3 Comments »