Foodists

Any dinner billed as The Dinner of the Decade has got to have some weight behind it. Not only does this one have some weight but also some of the most recognized names in Vancouver. David Hawksworth, Hidekazu Tojo,…

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Author’s Note Purloined is a fictional restaurant based on my home cooking and whimsy. If I did have a restaurant, this would be the menu. Though I couldn’t stand cooking the same dishes night after night. All…

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The Honey Bee Centre in Cloverdale BC is a great place to reconnect with nature, and the good old honey bee. While you’re there, you will learn about bee keeping as well as the process involved in making quality honey.…

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OK, this one is going to make chocoholics like Ben quiver with delight: custom-made chocolate bars! Settle down now. Much like custom muesli and coffee concepts that seem to be popping up online recently, a company in…

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This is a question that I used to ask myself when I lived around the corner from Meinhardts. They had quite a good selection of olive oils. I was always drawn in by the beautiful packaging but scared off by the price and…

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If you could eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner on a single day in Vancouver, where would you choose to dine? For the sake of this imaginary challenge, let’s assume that we all get an unlimited expense account (at the…

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I love to cook. My wife doesn’t. She bakes, but that doesn’t count on weeknights when I come home after work and there’s a meal to prepare (though I should get her into making meat pies). Generally, I…

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My family and I enjoyed 2 weeks in Tokyo & Nagano this October which turned out to be a repeat of a humid summer I once had as a kid. As usual, we had amazing food experiences. Some were comfortable flavors from past…

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It strikes me that the world can be divided neatly into two groups: Those who would willingly taste the contents of a poorly labeled, dusty bottle of homemade brown liquor and those who would not. My girlfriend and I fall…

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Here’s an interesting find one of our foodie friend stumbled across online: a conference hosted by Boston University called Foodies on The Web: A symposium on Food and New Media exploring how technologies have…

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Who knew that the most influential voice in Asia’s wine market is, well, a comic book character. Manga to be precise. The Drops of the Gods follows 20-something Shizuku, on a quest to learn about wine so he can…

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Here’s a fun short film courtesy of our friend Nathan. Al Dente is a colourful and musical  exploits of a little street girl who discovers the magic and the dangers of an ogre’s kitchen. Love the ravioli!

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As you may have heard, turns out that Julia Child was a spy! Most notably known for introducing French cuisine and cooking techniques to the the US she was recruited by the CIA at the age of 28. Check out the story on…

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I have to preface this with a short confessional. I’ve got this growing interest in culinary exploration but in typical Vancouverite fashion I jump at every opportunity to spend time in the sun and this last weekend…

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It’s not that I don’t LIKE vegetarians—I just don’t understand how they can live without bacon! So, the other day when I heard some TV host on the Food Network mention his monthly bacon delivery, I…

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