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.
Last spring, while in Tokyo, I made an early-morning trip to the famous Tsukiji fish market. It was meant to be a pilgrimage of sorts but ended up being an unsettling experience. I’ve thought a lot over the last…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Friday, July 10th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: environment, ethics, fish, Seafood | 11 Comments »
Ewes normally have twins. But sometimes they have triplets. One lamb is born, then a second, and if a third comes it’s a surprise to the ewe and to the farmer. The ewe looks up and counts: one, two, um, three.…
Posted by: James Sherrett on Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: animal husbandry, Clinton BC, Cutter Ranch, ewes, farms, food origins, lambs, rams, ranch, roadtrip, sheep | 10 Comments »
I remember back in my university days in Toronto every so often we’d get the Loblaws (known as The Real Canadian Superstore out west) flyer, the one featuring all the President’s Choice brand foods. Each one…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: blind tasting, galen weston, italian soda, loblaws, president's choice, revel room, the real canadian superstore | 8 Comments »
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Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: facebook, Foodists | No Comments »
Last Friday Steph and I were lucky enough to hit the Richmond Night Market with a bunch of our fellow foodists; we arrived with empty stomachs and we left stuffed with great food, on the verge of explosion. Starting with…
Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | | 5 Comments »
Affordable accessibility is a by-product of any economic downturn and as publishers reel from the effects, books are hitting the streets at VERY affordable prices! Recent finds from Bloomsbury publishing house include…
Posted by: Johnathon Vaughn on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Books, offal | 3 Comments »
We just received a couple copies of a new book by Monica Ali titled In the Kitchen. I’m just reading it now, so stay tuned for a review, and we’re giving the other one away! Coincidentally, the title is the…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Anthony-Bourdain, Bill Buford, contest, heat, In the Kitchen, Julia Child, Kitchen Confidential, Monica Ali, My Life in France | 16 Comments »
You ever have one of those Saturdays when a slot of time opens up and you can combine three or four things all at once? So it was this Saturday when I needed to go out and grab some sausages for Father’s Day, my…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: bacon, barbeque sauce, Bosa, capicollo, Casatorie, Cioffi's, Columbus Meats, dulce del leche, Gourmet Warehouse, Honeycup Mustard, italian, JNZ Deli, mil hoja, Moccia Meat Market, Oyama, Panaderia Latina Bakery, peri peri, Polonia Sausage, salumi, sausage, smoked meat | 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 »
Our friend Natalie MacLean—a dedicated “Foodist”, wine expert, and author of the wildly popular Nat Decants website www.nataliemaclean.com—has just released Canada’s first wine & food mobile…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 19th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: app, BlackBerry, food pairing, iPhone, mobile, Nat Decants, Natalie MacLean | No Comments »
There’s something about being able to grill anywhere that’s imminently appealing to me. Add in some sweet design and you may have a winner. To me, portable grills are also more than just about being mobile and…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 12th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: barbecue, BBQ, Cobb, notebook grill, Weber | 2 Comments »
That’s how the saying goes: ‘Hungry enough to eat a horse.’ But have you eaten a horse? Or even just some horse? I have. Along with 9 friends last weekend we ate horse steaks grilled and seasoned with…
Posted by: James Sherrett on Friday, June 12th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: crab, dinners, ethics, horse, horse meat, horse steaks, meat, meat eating, omnivores | 12 Comments »
Just recently I was discussing halibut with my father-in-law who was commenting on having been served fresh halibut that was ruined by over saucing. With such a delicate flavour and texture, most halibut recipes call for…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Epicure Selections, halibut, herbs, rubs, seasoning, spice mixes, Spices, steak | 30 Comments »
Foodists, foodie….whatever you wanna be called, it’s people who love food. Really love it. They can have long conversations criticizing, rhapsodizing and just plain obsessing about it. Sound familiar? On one of my…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Friday, May 29th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: China, Diary of a Foodie, drunken chicken, dumplings, fatty pork, food, foodie, foodist, glutinous rice, Gourmet, italy, James Beard, Jose Andres, leaves, New Zealand, olive oil, Oro Liquido, Parmigiano-Reggiano, public television, rice, series, spain, sugar, television, Travel, WGBH, zongzi | 2 Comments »
My mother recently sent me some food sites from the UK. Check them out. GoodFood by the BBC. The site includes cookery videos (enjoy those funny English accents), recipes, plus a section on wellbeing. ASDA (big…
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: banana, butter, pineapple, recipes, UK, websites | No Comments »