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Today is Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday also known as Pancake Tuesday and Paczki Day. It is the day that in many Christian calendars households need to get rid of all the fat, flour, sugar and fruit from their…
Posted by: Alexa Clark on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: holiday | 3 Comments »
Fat, it’s a misunderstood and much-maligned part of a cook’s arsenal. Without it pastry would be paste, roasted potatoes might as well be boiled, even chicken soup wouldn’t have its famed magical properties. And…
Posted by: Alexa Clark on Friday, February 20th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Coupe Space, fat, foie-gras, ingredient, Jennifer McLagan, tasting club | 7 Comments »
On March 12, 2009, more than 200 participating restaurants will donate 25% of that day’s food profits to A Loving Spoonful and Friends for Life, two Vancouver agencies that support people living with HIV/AIDS.…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: 2009, charity, event, Friends for Life, Loving Spoonful, vancouver | 1 Comment »
Last January, I was in Toronto for 2 weeks art directing a food magazine. I was surrounded by amazing ingredients, talented stylists and foodie photographers. I was also given a nice meal allowance per diem to try an…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Monday, February 16th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: bucatini, italian, olive oil, Pasta, Toronto | 12 Comments »
Looking for a really amazing cream puff? Beard Papas, recently opened up here in Vancouver and I’ll admit there have been a few late night trips to their Denman Street location since then. If you order a box to…
Posted by: Janeen Leynes on Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: beard papas, chocolate, cream puff, dessert, matcha, vanilla | 5 Comments »
It seems that Spam is a “love it or hate it” ingredient; it makes some smile and it makes many people gag, but it’s a selection that Steph and I often consider at our local haunts. It can be found boiled…
Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: food, fun, instruction, Meats, recipes, Spam | 5 Comments »
Anybody who knows me, knows that I love food — particularly hamburgers. So after being prodded and poked here is my list of favourite burgers. As a side note my criteria is based around the idea of the original…
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: California, cheese, Dick's Drive In, fast food culture, Five Guys, hamburger, In-n-Out, philadelphia, Seattle, Splitz, The Counter | 26 Comments »
Our old friend Mark Holland (coolest radio voice ever) and his colleague Janine de la Salle have published a terrific article entitled Food For Thought in today’s West Coast News section of The Vancouver Sun. In it,…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: article, janine dela salle, local food, mark holland, town planning, vancouver sun | 2 Comments »
Hot beef sundae. Corn dog pizza. French fry-encased hot dog on a stick. Turbaconucken. Deep-fried Coca-Cola. Deep dish pizza vending machine. In-N-out 100×100 burger. Deep-fried twinkie on a stick dipped in chocolate…
Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: fat, food, fun, junk, love | 1 Comment »
I would be quite remiss if I failed to write about food books that DO include visuals, whether it be sumptuous food photography by the likes of John Sherlock & Quentin Bacon or excellent how-to, step-by-step demos…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Friday, February 6th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Books, bourdain, Cioppino's, cookbooks, Feenie, food, French Laundry, Jamie Oliver, Jeffrey Alford, John Bishop, Martha Stewart, Martin Picard, Masaharu Morimoto, Naomi Duguid, Nigel Slater, Nobu, Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, photography, Pied de Cochon, Ramsay, Thomas Keller, Travel, vij's, Williams-Sonoma | 5 Comments »
Near the conclusion of the wonderful wedding I was best man at in Mexico recently, the parents of the bride gave Andrea and I a lovely gift. Inside we discovered an adorable mini Persian rug, a purse-sized woman’s…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: almonds, dessert, Persian, tradition, wedding | 2 Comments »
A truly inspirational talk by chef Dan Barber recounting a trip that he took to a goose farm in the Extremadura region of Spain run by Eduardo Sousa who not only produces a humane foie gras, but the best foie gras that…
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: beliefs, Chefs, ethical, foie-gras, goose_farm, spain, traditional | 3 Comments »
In wine-producing regions around the world, wine is accessible: celebrated in daily life and shared often with family and friends. Why, oh, why is this not the case in Vancouver?
Posted by: Karen Hamilton on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Memphis Blues, Raincity Grill, restaurant, Salt Tasting Room, vancouver, Wine | 5 Comments »
My wife had fish ‘n chips last week. She told me we would. Three days later I got an inexplicable craving for them. Took me a moment to realize why. Then we had to have some. This was a Friday night after a long…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: eastside, fish 'n chips, vancouver | 20 Comments »
There’s just something so special about those Monday mornings when your client pops by the office unannounced carrying a cardboard box with two plump, frozen geese he recently shot himself on a hunting trip. He just…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: BBQ, goose, hunting | 3 Comments »