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Forget the presidential election noise, or the start of the school year. A crisp September Saturday in Iowa means only one thing to the entire state: It’s time to tailgate. The thing about growing up in a state with…
Posted by: Sarah Reinertsen on Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cocktails, community, football, pork, turkey | No Comments »
One dark morning last week, I made ham and eggs for one in a tiny skillet on an industrial range. Now, this has its pros and cons: Pro: With the high heat that comes out of that Italian thoroughbred, all stainless steel…
Posted by: Karen Pinchin on Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Culinary School, France, Provence, St. Remy, stage | 2 Comments »
When I was back in BC this summer I had the very good luck of meeting Chris Hergesheimer, who owns and operates The Flour Peddler Enterprises. My parents met Chris at the Robert’s Creek farmer’s market, and after…
Posted by: Katie Trant on Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
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In today’s internationalized and air freighted culinary world can a cuisine go extinct? A question raised by dinner at a small rural café in a tiny drive through town in an unremarkable region of southern France…
Posted by: Brett Macfarlane on Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cafe, dinner, France, french, southern france | 1 Comment »
When asked to become part of the Foodists community, I was flattered and somewhat surprised. Sure, my life is food, I know how to cook and I have strong opinions about food. But for most of my journalistic career…
Posted by: Karen Pinchin on Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: food writing, Foodists, France, journalism, Karen Pinchin, Provence | No Comments »
Labour Day long weekend is around the corner, signalling the end of summer 2012. Vacations are ending, kids are back to school, and it’s time to get back into routines again. And for many that means reconsidering…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Breakfast, cereal, contest, granola, Love Crunch, summer | 8 Comments »
Two summers ago in 2010 it was a record year for the BC salmon run here, the best since 1913 apparently. 2010 was also my father’s seventieth birthday and my brother Nathan and I wanted to get him something that…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, August 6th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: british columbia salmon run, butchers of gastown, fishing, sockeye salmon | No Comments »
The Wise Monkeys blog is a site that I’ve been following obsessively because of the great insider tips about Chinese food around Vancouver. Contributor Fernando is the one that also tipped me off about Nine Dishes,…
Posted by: Boris Mann on Monday, July 16th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Chinese Food, Hunan, Lucky Noodle, Luckynoodle, vancouver, Wise Monkeys | 1 Comment »
After the six hours of car and ferry travel, I needed something to eat that wasn’t prepped the night before or didn’t have saran wrap stretched around it like a band-aid – I needed something that…
Posted by: Gen Handley on Friday, June 15th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: British Columbia, curry, Indian food, Kashmir, Spot Prawns, Sunshine Coast | No Comments »
I think my mother once tried to serve us muesli when we were kids. This was back in the day when Cheerios and milk was our standard and anything else for breakfast was considered sacrilege. You want me to put yogurt in…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, June 4th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Breakfast, contest, Dorset cereal, muesli | 13 Comments »
Meet Sarah Reinertsen our latest guest contributor. The fortunate instance of a bus breakdown in the Himalayan foothills – after the bus driver tried unsuccessfully to fix the malfunction with a 2×4 and a hose –…
Posted by: Sarah Reinertsen on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: creme brulee, dessert, guest | 1 Comment »
“In the ever expanding universe of food television,” quips food TV host Bob Blumer. “Do you ever get the feeling you’ve seen it all?” Yes Bob. Yes, we do. We really do. So what could our…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: adventure, Bob Blumer, Food Network, restaurants, Travel, tv, weird | 2 Comments »
…Yogurt! Sorry, couldn’t resist. I remember my dad once bought one of those Salton home yogurt makers. He made a batch. It sucked. We never used it again. As a result, yogurt never played a huge roll in my…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: fat free yogurt, Greek yogurt, Liberté, yogurt | 3 Comments »
Yesterday when I typed the word “apple” into Google I was a little shocked to see that the first few references for the word were not of the fruit kind but of the computer kind (congrats Steve Jobs). The electronic…
Posted by: Erin Mussolum on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: apples | 1 Comment »
My wife and I stopped going to Dine Out Vancouver a few years ago after a couple of unfortunate experiences at restaurants who didn’t embrace the spirit of the festival—some even seeming to resent it. So when I…
Posted by: 1ndu3tr1@l on Friday, January 20th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: 2012, Dine Out Vancouver, Fresh Local Wild, Glowbal Group, Guest Contributor, Josh Wolfe | No Comments »