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.
How do you truly compare four different porchetta sandwiches from across Vancouver? Eat them all at the same lunch! To help burn off the 10,000+ calorie carbo load, it’s always good to throw in an exercise regime…
Posted by: Johnathon Vaughn on Monday, March 18th, 2013
Categories: Worship | Tags: bread, meat, porchetta, pork, vancouver | No Comments »
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 »
Most people think that curing your own meats is a quick way to waste meat, or worse, end up in the hospital (or even worse: dead). While there is some risk involved, it can be minimized. People have been curing meats for…
Posted by: Cliff Hammerschmidt on Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Categories: Guidance | Tags: charcuterie, cooking techniques, pork | 1 Comment »
When it comes to farm-to-table food in Ohio, no one does it better than Heather Haviland at Lucky’s Café in Cleveland. In 2003 Chef Haviland started a small baking business inside a then coffee shop. In 2006 she bought…
Posted by: Helen Fernandes on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Categories: Worship | Tags: apple, bake, biscuits, Breakfast, butt, Cleveland, compote, cream, farm, fresh, garden, ginger, gravy, Heather Haviland, honey, Lucky's Cafe, Midwest, Ohio, organic, pork, sausage, scallions, Tremont, waffles | 1 Comment »
Say the words “pork belly” and the eyes of any foodist will light up. That’s what happened when I read the words “crispy braised pork belly” on the recently updated menu at the venerable…
Posted by: Evan Leeson on Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: braise, Gastown, irish heather, pork, pork belly, skin, The Irish Heather, vancouver | 1 Comment »
Foodists.ca is extremely excited to present our second annual Barbecue Bootcamp featuring BBQ Champ and author, Rockin’ Ronnie Shewchuk. Modelled after last summer’s smash hit Foodists.ca event, we guarantee you will…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: barbecue, Barbecue Secrets, BBQ, bbq course, bootcamp, brisket, cooking class, game hen, instruction, meat, oysters, pineapple, pork, quesadilla, ravenswood, Rockin' Ronnie Shewchuk, salmon | 1 Comment »
I don’t know if you’re like me, but if you are then you love pork. When I heard that Refuel was offering up a family style, late night, all-you-can-eat celebration of pig with all the trimmings and endless…
Posted by: Brenda Lowe on Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: pig, pork, Refuel | 1 Comment »
Last month was my birthday. As always, my lovely husband spoiled me rotten – dinner at Tojo’s, a beautiful Shun chef’s knife and a cooking class at Dirty Apron. He had originally signed me up for the…
Posted by: Denise Boyle on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: beef, cooking classes, food, lamb, learning, meat, pork, steak, vancouver | 4 Comments »
Offal, in the form of animal innards or refuse bits, bounced back to the top of the food trend ladder. Woohoo! Go, North America. In many regions around the world, offal is neither novel nor a delicacy; it’s just a…
Posted by: Melody Fury on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: Florence, italy, market, meat, offal, pork, Travel | 3 Comments »
The other day I was talking about regionalism in food and what determines what dishes get to represent a culture abroad. “Take Thai food,” I said, “Northern Thai cuisine is really quite different from…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: class, cooking, curry, Don Dickerson, duck, grilled beef salad, instruction, nam prik, Northern Thai, pork, relish, rice, South China Seas, thai, vancouver | No Comments »
I commute weekly between Victoria and Vancouver. For those of you who have never been, Victoria is a small city on the Southern tip of Vancouver Island. It is 30 minutes by float plane from Vancouver. It is also within…
Posted by: Evan Leeson on Monday, July 6th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: artisan, chop, choux choux charcuterie, european, island, pig, pork, sloping hill, smoke, smoked, vancouver, Victoria | No Comments »
This is one highly enjoyable read that is informative, fascinating and hunger inducing. Now, it’s also a 2009 James Beard Foundation Book Award winner. (This book was already noted in a previous Foodists article by…
Posted by: Nancy Wu on Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: beef, butter, clarified butter, fat, ghee, James Beard, Jennifer McLagan, lamb, pork, poultry | No Comments »
Say hello to Wanda. Wanda was purchased by some of the men of the Foodists collective a few weeks ago. She said her farewell to her time at Sloping Hills Farm this past week and was greeted with much excitement and…
Posted by: Karen Hamilton on Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: bc, butchers, butchery, canada, downtown, events, Foodists, Gastown, knives, manly men, meat, pig, pork, vancouver, wanda | 18 Comments »
During our Foodists launch at South China Seas it was unanimous that Don and Joyce’s recipe for jiaozi with Chinese black truffles and ginger was the best we had ever tried, and their cooking method was backwards…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 27th, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: black truffle, Japanese, jiaozi, pork, veal | No Comments »
It goes without saying that it will rain the day after you take your umbrella out of your purse and by the same token, I should have known that a trendy, tasty Italian restaurant would open up in the culinary dead-zone…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Monday, January 26th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: chick peas, chinatown, fish, italian, Pasta, polenta, pork, restaurant, review, Risotto, sausage, steak, vancouver, Wine | 2 Comments »