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.
If you love grilling and crave flavour, then you might want to consider going back to charcoal. Here’s what happened to me… At the beginning of the grilling and bbq (yes, there is a difference between these…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: barbeque, bbq-championship, charcoal, Cobb, Hardware, house-of-q, meat, slow-cooking, Weber, well-seasoned-gourmet | No Comments »
The government of Ontario has recently announced new Street Food Vendor Regulations which means we may be seeing some great new options added to menus at hot dog carts and fry trucks around the Ontario as of August 1st.…
Posted by: Alexa Clark on Friday, July 13th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Street Food, Toronto | No Comments »
The problem with Giant Pocky is the chocolate to stick ratio is off (too much stick).
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, July 9th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chocolate, dessert, glico, Japanese, pocky, pretzel, snack | No Comments »
Did you know that nutmeg and mace helps reduce gas, aids digestion and alleviates nausea? me neither. Here’s an interesting food site with an article called What Everybody Ought to Know About Medicinal Uses of 22…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: medicine, spice, therapy, website | No Comments »
K. and I have lived in Vancouver for two years now, and have had little to do with the spectacular setting which frames the city. This last weekend, however, we got out of the house and into the woods for a little fresh…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Monday, June 25th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Fruit, salmonberries, salmonberry, seymour-park | 2 Comments »
Lately it seems to be frothing up all over the place, but I just don’t know what a “foam” is. I’ve seen “tomato foam” on restaurant menus, “cherry foam” on a catering menu…
Posted by: Alexa Clark on Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: foam, sauce, steam, Top Chef | 3 Comments »
I love innovative car commercials, especially when they involve confectionary and cake! This ad for Skoda has a rather large team creating a life-size replica of the car, complete with engine and interior. Reminds me a…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 1st, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cake, Canstruction, commercial, dessert, marketing | No Comments »
The other evening we were enjoying some delicious asparagus with dinner and realized that we had no idea how asparagus was grown? Does it hang on a bush? Grow in the ground like a potato? Nope. So we looked it up online…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: asparagus, Vegetables | 1 Comment »
It’s late and I’m writing this from our small room on a goose farm in a tiny town called Veyssiéres just east of Sarlat La Canéda. This is our second to last day in the area of France known as Perigord, land…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, May 21st, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: duck, duck-confit, foie-gras, France, gisiers, goose_farm, Limousine, Travel | No Comments »
Well, here we are in the land of cheese and wine and what do I chose to write about? Nougat. Yes, the other day we hit the Bastille Market and lo and behold the first stall we come upon is filled with every type of French…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: bastille-market, calissons_d_aix, Desserts, nougat, paris, Travel | 3 Comments »
I’ve been away from posting on wines for a while now. Sorry. It’s the rain – very depressing and blog entry-suppressing. But today, I am inspired! This morning was so beautiful, and as I was walking to…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: drink, hot-day-wine, lower-mainland, portugese-wine, summer-wine, value-wine, vinho-verde, Wine | No Comments »
My wife and I are off to France for two weeks starting May 10th. Before we go if you have any great places, particularly food and wine related, let me know! I’d love to hit some off-the-beaten path culinary treasures.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: culinary_treasures, France, off_the_beaten_path, Travel | No Comments »
Organic. Sustainable. All natural. Renewable. Green. Terms bandied about casually these days–especially in food circles–but what does an environmentally responsible approach to beer making mean? For Brooklyn Brewery…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: ale, beer, Brooklyn Brewery, drink, natural, New Jersey, organic, sustainable | 1 Comment »
Sunday was a long morning. Nursing a post-Shiraz hangover, I slump into Savory Coast to package the wood-fired bread that Chef Romy Prasad created for our new company 700 degrees. Three months in and we’re in Capers and…
Posted by: Paul Wallace on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: 700, bread, chef, Frog-Legs, Romy-Prasad, Savory-Coast | 2 Comments »
That’s how I would describe the chocolate that just melted in my mouth. And given that it’s from a new shop called Mink, the words seem rather fitting. Mink opened last week at 863 West Hastings (Vancouver),…
Posted by: Erin Kampf on Friday, March 30th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chocolate, dessert, Mink, vancouver-cafe-chocolate | No Comments »