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As a lover of all things hamburger, it often pained me to say that the landscape in Vancouver was historically uneven. Sure one could say “You’re crazy, why not just go to Vera’s or the Tomahawk…
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: burger, fast food, Nimby, vancouver | 3 Comments »
“Respect the animal. Show up on time and be prepared to work. You will eat some great food and take some with you to enjoy in the weeks and months to come, but the focus during butchery and prep is work. Take…
Posted by: Johnathon Vaughn on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: butchery, Cutter Ranch, lamb | 3 Comments »
Over the years I’ve been getting more and more into traditional low and slow barbecue. For the uninitiated, that’s good ol’ Southern style barbecue, not grilling. Ribs cooked for six hours at 250°F, 15…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: barbecue, barbecue judging, BBQ, low and slow, Mad Cow Barbecue, pnwba, ribs, Ted Reader, Weber Smokey Mountain, Well Seasoned, WSM | 2 Comments »
We’ve all heard stories about childhood food experiences, the memories of which scarred them for life. From my vegetarian friend’s story of eyeballs hanging from the eye sockets of a freshly clubbed, but still…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: chicken, farm, lamb, meat, memories, murder, Uncle Henry, where food comes from | 4 Comments »
I’ve tasted a lot of chocolate. While I try to be objective, I definitely have my favourites. Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to meet some of the chocolate makers behind my favourite bars.…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: amano, chocolate, claudio-corallo, patric, pralus, xoxolat | No Comments »
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Posted by: Degan Walters on Friday, March 26th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: poll, prize, questions, survey | No Comments »
I recently went through a big life change (hence my absence from foodists for the last little while, for which I promise to make up). Long story short I ended up having to move out of my old apartment. It’s amazing what…
Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: canned pumpkin, curry, meat sauce | 4 Comments »
Most people are pretty excited when they find out that I write a chocolate blog. They think it’s fun and frivolous and maybe just a little bit glamorous. Well, I’m still waiting for the glamour part, but…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: a loving spoonful, dining out for life, Friends for Life, fundraiser, vancouver | 3 Comments »
Seared Tenderloin with braised spinach, tomato confit, tomato powder and peanut veloute. This lovely looking dish is actually death on a plate. In the past year there have been massive recalls of spinach, tomatoes, beef…
Posted by: Anthony Nicalo on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: fair trade, food safety, health, obesity, organic, provenance, sustainability | 2 Comments »
The streets were eerily quiet last Sunday morning before the men’s gold medal hockey game, Canada v.s. the US. Line-ups of fans were winding around the block outside bars, all decked in red. My friends and I…
Posted by: Melody Fury on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Hockey, Olympics, vancouver, Vegetarian | 1 Comment »
I pride myself that I have never stolen anything in my whole life. But every morning as I walk my daughter to daycare I pass a house and see sausages just hanging outside the window. I am now tempted to steal every single…
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: suasage | 2 Comments »
I first heard of Perry while watching a great little show from the UK called ‘Oz and James Drink to Britain‘ where they try to find the one true drink that best represents Britain. Perry is very similar to…
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cider, Pear, Perry | 4 Comments »
French lemon tart is, naturally, more complicated than your average lemon tart. It’s a four-component dessert: sweet dough, almond cream, lemon custard, Italian meringue. It happened to be the focus of the fourth lesson…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: almond, disaster, french, lemon, tart | 6 Comments »
I was walking by beautiful bunches of organic young golden beets when a stark realization hit me that I’d never cooked beets. Ashamed of myself, being a foodist and all, I grabbed a bunch and was determined to cook them…
Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: beats, bechamel, parmesan cheese, Risotto, roots, Salad, vitimens | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I wandered the rainy streets of Kits sipping my first taste of Thomas Haas chocolate and ended up at the Salvation Army. I always look for used cookbooks that cover a particular ethnicity or from the…
Posted by: Boris Mann on Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: British Columbia Heritage Cookbook, cookbooks, Cooking in Switzerland, New York Times Cook Book, Salvation Army, Thomas Haas | 3 Comments »