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I thought I knew olive oil. In fact I’ve always sort been an olive oil snob, willing to pay extravagant prices for “the good stuff”, most often from Italy, Spain or Greece, but Famiglia Creanza Olive Oil…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
Categories: Worship | Tags: GoVoluntouring, italy, Messors, olive oil, Puglia, recipe, Tonio Creanza | 13 Comments »
If you aren’t familiar with Patricia Wells, you should be. She’s the doyenne of bistro cuisine, and runs what I’ve heard is the best cooking school in Provence. She has a pied-à-terre in Paris where…
Posted by: Karen Pinchin on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Categories: Guidance | Tags: best, best cooking school Provence, bistro, cooking classes, cooking school, grape, olive, olive oil, Provence | 1 Comment »
How often does a friend say to you, “Hold on, I want you to try this new brand of olive oil my friend is importing from Spain. It’s quite special, tell me what you think.” Well, that’s exactly what…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 5th, 2011
Categories: Worship | Tags: Cazorliva, Jaencoop, olive oil, spain, vancouver | 2 Comments »
Playing around with contrasting ingredients to create unlikely flavours riles me up. I love it when my guests look hesitantly at their plates at first, then burst out saying “wow, I never thought that would work”…
Posted by: Melody Fury on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Categories: Guidance | Tags: cheese, corn, Goat Cheese, lime, mint, olive oil, Olives, onion, summer, watermelon | 1 Comment »
It is Sunday morning, one of those rare, sunny January days where brunch plans have been cancelled last minute and I haven’t made it out to do my grocery shopping. A quick glance in my fridge is less than inspiring;…
Posted by: Jules Morgan on Monday, January 18th, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: blueberry, Breakfast, muffins, olive oil, recipe | No Comments »
Foodists, foodie….whatever you wanna be called, it’s people who love food. Really love it. They can have long conversations criticizing, rhapsodizing and just plain obsessing about it. Sound familiar? On one of my…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Friday, May 29th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: China, Diary of a Foodie, drunken chicken, dumplings, fatty pork, food, foodie, foodist, glutinous rice, Gourmet, italy, James Beard, Jose Andres, leaves, New Zealand, olive oil, Oro Liquido, Parmigiano-Reggiano, public television, rice, series, spain, sugar, television, Travel, WGBH, zongzi | 2 Comments »
Following my previous article on Terroni and the search for Vancouver restaurants that served bucatini all’amatriciana, my husband decided to make it himself. Joseph found two key ingredients at the Granville Island…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Babbo, bacon, Bosa Foods, bucatini, David Rocco, Duso's Pasta & Cheese, fat, flavour, Granville Island Public Market, guanciale, italian, Mario Batali, noodles, olive oil, Oyama Sausage, Pasta, pecorino cheese, pig, recipe, tomato | 12 Comments »
Last January, I was in Toronto for 2 weeks art directing a food magazine. I was surrounded by amazing ingredients, talented stylists and foodie photographers. I was also given a nice meal allowance per diem to try an…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Monday, February 16th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: bucatini, italian, olive oil, Pasta, Toronto | 12 Comments »
This is a question that I used to ask myself when I lived around the corner from Meinhardts. They had quite a good selection of olive oils. I was always drawn in by the beautiful packaging but scared off by the price and…
Posted by: Lisa Nakamura on Monday, December 1st, 2008
Categories: Meditations | Tags: infused, olive oil, salad dressing, The Olive Pit | 11 Comments »