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.
Small, local mixed-crop farmers are a dying breed. The average age of a BC farmer is 59 years. Despite the great urban farming efforts of good people like Sole Food Street Farms and Fresh Roots, making a living as a…
Posted by: Casey Hrynkow on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Casey Hrynkow, Dangling0, food supply, local, sustainability | 3 Comments »
Foodists is a collective of obsessed food fanatics, and as such our relationship with where our food comes from is super important to us. Many of our motley crew live in British Columbia, home of the spot prawn (Pandalus…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 11th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Ben Garfinkel, British Columbia, Chad Brealey, Howe Sound, mark busse, Organic Ocean, Pandalus Platyceros, prawning, Spot Prawns, sustainability | 2 Comments »
Bluefin Tuna are in danger of extinction, oysters are disappearing and more than 170 billion pounds of wildlife are being removed from the seas yearly. By all accounts, the oceans are in rough shape. But it hasn’t…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Categories: Guidance | Tags: ocean, sea, Seafood, sustainability | No Comments »
If you are like me you are increasingly conscious of the unsustainable and polluting use of plastic wrap in the cooking process. I use it for both mise en place and left-overs, and for other food prep techniques as well…
Posted by: Evan Leeson on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: environment, kitchen, plastic wrap, sustainability | 5 Comments »
Saturday evening. My cab cuts through Yaletown, dipping down under the Granville Street Bridge towards the marina. The heat of the day has begun to wane but the sun is still blazing low in the sky transforming the vehicle…
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: C Restaurant, events, restaurants, reviews, salmon, scallops, Seafood, Spot Prawns, sustainability, tilapia, Wine | 12 Comments »
“This is to confirm your reservation for the media dinner aboard the Floating Dining Room.” On Friday afternoon, with two designers down and minor fires to be put out on all fronts, the above words sat buried…
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Categories: Meditations | Tags: C Restaurant, event, School of Fish Foundation, Seafood, sustainability | No Comments »
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 ramshackle hut where, amidst the dust of the road, I was…
Posted by: Jules Morgan on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: mexican, mexican-food, organic, san francisco, sustainability, the mission district, vegan | 5 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 »