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If you are lactose intolerant, your body does not produce enough lactase to break down all the lactose in the foods that you eat and the beverages that you drink. I have been drinking lactose free milk now for the last…
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: lactaid, Lactose free, lactose free yogurt, yogurt | 108 Comments »
I love to read. I love to travel. I love food. I love all 3 combined. Sound familiar? So what’s a girl (or guy) to do when you can’t carry Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry Cookbook in your purse (or manbag) to…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: book, bourdain, celebrity, chef, cook, culinary, Ellerbee, food, humor, journalism, kitchen, learn, recipe, school, training, Travel | 3 Comments »
There are some days when I really wish I could read French. Today was one of those days. Julie Rothhahn’s website looks very fascinating and it looks like she’s an experimental food designer of some sort.…
Posted by: Lisa Nakamura on Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: food designer, french, Julie Rothhahn | 2 Comments »
I’m not a scotch drinker but this Macallan Maple Scotch is seriously delicious! It’s a sweet single malt scotch whiskey that is flavoured with maple and pecans. It’s a great after dinner drink and…
Posted by: Lisa Nakamura on Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Macallan, maple, Scotch, whiskey | 1 Comment »
Something we’ve always wished we did more of was have actual Foodists events. Of course, we’re making that happen now, and what better way to get that ball rolling than to celebrate the recent launch of the…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, January 30th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Foodists, Launch event, South China Seas, specialty, vancouver | 4 Comments »
At the very mention of a certain Tagalog word, I forget the deep fried bananas, sweet sticky rice, cassava, and mouthwatering mangoes; that word is Ube. Ube is a close cousin to Taro and for all of the other Laowai out…
Posted by: Stephanie Co & Todd Smith on Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: dessert, filipino, hopia, pastry, snack, ube | 15 Comments »
This year we gave a Betty Crocker Easy Bake oven to our young niece Chloe, who has been baking cookies in it like a fiend ever since. A regular baker! And during the holidays my young nephew Landon and I spent some…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cookies, Easy Bake, memories | 2 Comments »
Last weekend I cooked two dishes that required fresh herbs – a pugliese seafood pasta with sage, and a rosemary cake with… rosemary. Finding fresh rosemary is never a problem at our house, as we have two…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: herbs, public gardens, rosemary, sage | 1 Comment »
Recently I’ve been researching data visualization design for a project about our exposure to consumer brands and came across this website that explores the various tasting notes commonly associated with different…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: flavour, taste notes, visualization, website, Wine | 2 Comments »
Tonight, many of us at Foodists.ca were proud to celebrate the official launch of this tasty foodblog. What better way than an intimate demonstration of how Don Dickson & Joyce Chang-Dickson create flavorful…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Friday, January 16th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: asian, dumplings, food store, Foodists, gyoza, mandarin, South China Seas, truffles | 4 Comments »
Last weekend, I went to a Chinese wedding banquet. If you’ve never been, you should try to wrangle yourself an invitation to eat the twelve-course meal. You read right, it’s a twelve-course meal. We had:…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Monday, January 12th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chicken, chinese, cookies, fish, lobster, wedding | 2 Comments »
Is it going overboard, frustrated food stylist-wannabe or just very VERY creative parents? A fun gallery of extraordinary bento or lunch packs that make you feel like a slacker for having a process bologna sandwich on…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Monday, January 5th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: bento, bread, cheese, cookies, creative, eggs, Ghibli, Japanese, lotus root, lunch, luncheon meat, meat, meatballs, Miyazaki, nori, onigiri, rice, seaweed | 8 Comments »
Turkey or ham? Mashed or roasted? Sweet or savoury? Christmas cookies or Hannukah latkes? Eggnog or fine wine? Meat or vegetarian? European, North American, Latin, Asian? There are so many traditional dishes that make up…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Categories: Meditations | Tags: holiday, recipe, traditional | 12 Comments »
As part of an ‘under $10 gift exchange’ gone wrong we found ourselves on the receiving end of Disney’s High School Musical-branded “Artificially Flavoured Sack Lunch Sweet & Sour…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Categories: Meditations | Tags: candy, fast food culture, omnivore's dilemma, poor nutritian | 4 Comments »
I was strolling through Costco on my way to grab a bottle of maple syrup and stumbled into not the standard plastic bottle they usually sell, but this terrific looking bottle of organic syrup that looks just like a decent…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Categories: Meditations | Tags: LB Maple Treat, maple syrup, packaging | 3 Comments »