Cookies! Share your recipes… please
At a very early age my mother taught my brothers and I how to bake. Instead of getting sweets in our lunches for school, the three of us each had to bake a batch on Sunday…
Meditations - Enlightened gastronomic insights
The Beer Geek’s Guide to the Alibi Room’s 100th Beer List
In December, beer geeks (enthusiasts?) lined up early at the Alibi Room to celebrate an auspicious event – the Alibi’s 100th Beer List. Nigel Springthorpe…
Never Too Old for a Yummy Christmas Tree
This year, a simple, food-themed baby tree with entirely handmade decorations adorns my brick loft. I strung up some stale candy and yogurt pretzels and sprayed it down…
An Ode to Colombia’s Bandeja Paisa
While I’m not necessarily a fan of highly caloric, eat-for-protein, “Hungry Man”-type meals, put me in Colombia and I will gladly consume the bandeja paisa with…
Ladies Rock the Sortilège Cup
The BC Hospitality Expo last month had the usual assortment of entertainment accoutrements, but we were there to judge one half of the Sortilège Cup. Hosted by Nons…
Simon Speaks on Sortilège Cup and Mixology
Gastown has a dense concentration of watering holes so unsurprisingly, it also boasts of some of the finest cocktail establishments in the city. In a neighbourhood founded…
Contest: Green eggs and no ham
With vegetarianism practically a sacrilege amongst our collective (don’t even mention it in front of some), and vegan being the dirtiest five-letter word around…
Why I Love Being a Foodist
This post was supposed to be a review of the recent Night With Theo Chocolate event at The Refinery in Vancouver, but the event’s organizer and host Eagranie—a…
Immaculate Conception Whisky Dinner
‘Tis the season…to drink lots of whisky! December 8th 2009 marks a very special evening. The Refinery and Cask Strength present “Immaculate…
Dining during a recession = better home cooking
When I watched Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares UK Special this past January, he didn’t hold back about some of his own successful restaurants suffering due to the…
Guidance - Recipes & tips that will convert you
The Temporary Vegetarian and The Vegan Mac’n’Cheese
Six weeks ago, I stopped eating meat. Well…until today. As you may know, I am a culinary school student, and 6 weeks ago we started a class that teaches the art of…
Fall Salad: Roasted pumpkin with charred radicchio and pomegranate
1 small roasting pumpkin 1 small head of radicchio 1 small pomegranate, seeded Handful of Italian parsley leaves Renato Fenocchio Olive Oil Balsamic Vinegar (real stuff,…
Adobo Chicken
As the leaves start to fall and there is a chill in the air, my mind turns to warm comfort foods to take me through the winter. I feel a warm hug just thinking about my…
Canned Bourboned Peaches Recipe
Here’s a real simple recipe to save some of the incredible summer peaches for winter days, twisted with a notch of bourbon to add flavour. This was my first time…
Strathcona Sourdough: Adventures with Real Bread
As an amateur chef, I enjoy a good challenge. Over the years, I’ve tackled quite a few of them – a flakey pie crust, an authentic bolognese, a delicate…
Bullshit-Free Moose Chili Recipe
Everybody and their uncle has their special chili recipe, and they all swear theirs is the best. They all claim to have a secret, be it an unexpected ingredient or some…
Contest: Win a Copy of Wisdom of the Last Farmer by David Mas Masumoto
This month’s contest prize is a copy of author, farmer, and slow food activist David Mas Masumoto‘s latest book Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies…
BBQ Salmon À La Sooke
My buddy Handsome Rob (not my name for him – not that there’s anything wrong with that) took me salmon fishing out of Sooke on Sunday without much expectation.…
Almond Milk
Over the last few years, I have made a gradual transition over from cow milk to nut milk, in an attempt of finding a similar cream consistency that my body could readily…
The Dirty Apron Cooking School
Due to Vancouver’s anti-climatic nature, I have nurtured myself to forbid the formation of expectations with newly opened establishments. I do so in hopes of minimizing…
Worship - Feasting at the temples of others
New Orleans Adventures: Po-Boys
Hidden away on a small side street, mere steps away from the New Orleans Cooking School stands a small po-boy place – Johnny’s. The internet reviews rave: this is THE…
Visiting Vancouver’s Secret Brewery
I’d like to be able to start off this article with a shadowy meeting; with a blindfolded car ride or with a secret entrance of some kind. The truth, though, is that…
Something Fishy at Provence Marinaside
An experienced food writer friend once warned me to be suspicious of invitations from restaurants whenever a *free* meal was involved, explaining how difficult he found it…
Modern Tapas, yes! Shopping, no – Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona
I’m sure you’ve heard of the incredible markets in Europe. You’ve heard about the eccentric fish mongers, the ceilings covered with cured meats and the…
Toronto Cheap Eats Top 10
Recently, I was asked what my favourite restaurants in Toronto were. And I kinda sat there, blankly — stricken by the realization I couldn’t actually think of any.…
Gracias Madre
My love for Mexican cuisine started at the tender age of 17, when en route to Mazatlan, we stopped at a remote village somewhere just west of Torreón and entered a…
CocoaNymph – raising the chocolate bar!
She sat alone draped in the seductive and warm ambience of the room. Outside the coziness of the café contrasted with slick wet streets and the bluish air of cold winter…
Charlie Loves Pizza
Charlie’s, newly opened in Yaletown, thinks there’s an alternative to the 4 AM drunken, soggy pizza by the slice. Instead, they’ve opened a swish…
Corner Suite Bistro de Luxe
One of the most talked up restaurants of the summer finally opened with a page of press before they even got started, and it seems like it’s now about to get some…
Food, Camera, Action! Olympic Eats on Video
The bustling energy that the 2010 Winter Olympics brought to Vancouver was amazing but I’m relieved to reclaim our city back from the visitors. During the games, I…