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.
Small, local mixed-crop farmers are a dying breed. The average age of a BC farmer is 59 years. Despite the great urban farming efforts of good people like Sole Food Street Farms and Fresh Roots, making a living as a…
Posted by: Casey Hrynkow on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Casey Hrynkow, Dangling0, food supply, local, sustainability | 3 Comments »
For most kids with a fairly normal upbringing, fair food is comfort food. Gorging yourself on too much sugar, too much fat and too much fun was a right of passage. Sure, the elegant food snob has transcended that greasy…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 13th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Ben Garfinkel, Deep Fried, Fair, Foodists, mark busse, Pacific National Exhibition, Playland, PNE, vancouver | 3 Comments »
I would like to personally thank the protestors of Gastown and Downtown East Side restaurants. If it were not for the haute couture balaclava clad fashions and poetic typographic masterpieces on placards, it may be…
Posted by: Johnathon Vaughn on Monday, July 15th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: DTES, Gastown, protestors, restaurants, vancouver | 9 Comments »
I finally got around to making renditions of some favorite dishes of mine from the Yunnan and Hunan cuisine, as well as a Hakka dish that I learned from my father. I had invited a few friends who share my love for spicy…
Posted by: Kaishin Chu on Thursday, July 11th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chinese, cooking, dashoffood, dishes, home cooking, kaishin, kaishinchu, onelushlife, regional | No Comments »
London, UK – How did craft beer come to rule our taps? Who allowed the pleasure of a simple pint to drown under barrels of manhandled complexity? This insincere and insidious “movement” of macho…
Posted by: Brett Macfarlane on Sunday, June 30th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | | No Comments »
Today I made a dish called “Tum Bhu Pla Ra.” After I finished, I realized that in one dish I put in not 1, not 2, but 3 different ingredients that by Western standard would be considered “stinky”: Fish sauce,…
Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Categories: Meditations | | 5 Comments »
Beer has long lifted the burdens of the working class, and so it is fitting that Karl Marx who toiled to relieve the working class’ burdens was oft to lift an ale himself . However, back in my economic…
Posted by: Brett Macfarlane on Friday, March 29th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: alcohol, beer, beverage, London | No Comments »
Russians love tea more than vodka. Even though it is vodka, bears and Siberia that became the ubiquitous symbols of Russian culture in North America, for Russians it is the tea drinking that stands at the very core of…
Posted by: Elena Yugai on Friday, March 22nd, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: food culture, food history, Russian, tea | 1 Comment »
Every foodie seems to know what Sriracha is—the hot sauce with a cock on the bottle. It has become associated with Vietnamese restaurants, yet the current version was created in LA, and you can’t find it in…
Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Friday, March 15th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | | 7 Comments »
When it comes to Dine Arounds, Dine Outs or any “Eat At [INSERT CITY NAME HERE]!” complaints tend dominate the accolades. Why? In my experience, diner criticism goes along these lines: The service was…
Posted by: Karen Pinchin on Monday, March 11th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: #dinearoundFreddy, Dine Around, Dine-out, food cost, Fredericton, value | 2 Comments »
There are moments when you get slapped out of apathy and assumption-making that resonate a while. Meeting Elena was one such moment. In a few spoken words she shattered our first impression of her as merely the Korean…
Posted by: Elena Yugai on Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: spirits, vodka | 2 Comments »
I’ve had a few conversations regarding some customers wanting to customize their food to such an extent that it drives chefs up the wall and begs the question…who’s the chef here? In another part of the world,…
Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: condiment, fish sauce, thai | 2 Comments »
Many revolutions start in the belly. Empty stomachs and bare cupboards feed rhetoric, ideals and slogans. Sparked by food prices too high or food stocks too low revolution hungry citizens rally to the streets toppling…
Posted by: Brett Macfarlane on Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Categories: Meditations | | 3 Comments »
The ‘heat’ referenced in the post title is as much about competition as it is about spice At Foodists, we get a fair amount of attention from PR people pitching all manner of restaurants, products, etc. As a…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 17th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: asian cooking, Blue Dragon, brandade, charity, cod, recipe | 1 Comment »
When my friends and I decided to go to Naples we were warned by others who had visited not to stay for too long because it was gross, dirty and disgusting. To the contrary we found Naples an authentic Italian experience…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Brioche, clams, gelato, Italian Food, italy, mussels, Naples, Pasta, Pistachios, Seafood, Sparkling Lemonade, Wood Fired Pizza | 2 Comments »