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.
Growing up in Ontario, my dad used to come back from wintertime east-coast work trips with a bag of frozen smelt, but I never really understood where they came from (river? ocean? lake?) or why they were so delicious.…
Posted by: Karen Pinchin on Monday, February 11th, 2013
Categories: Guidance | Tags: local food, preserving wild foods, recipe, salted smelt, smelt, sustainable | No Comments »
(OK the title doesn’t quite make sense but I’m still going with it.) When I was back in Iowa for a few weeks this September, a story in the Des Moines Register about a local pig farmer doing some pretty out…
Posted by: Sarah Reinertsen on Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Categories: Worship | Tags: Cochon 555, farming, heritage breeds, Hydroponics, organic, Rustik Rooster, sustainable, Swabian Hall | 1 Comment »
Commercial Drive is one of the best food shopping neighbourhoods in Vancouver – I know people who come here regularly from other parts of town to take advantage of the prices and the great variety. There are numerous…
Posted by: Denise Boyle on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
Categories: Meditations | Tags: butcher, commercial dr, meat, neighbourhood, organic, ranch, shopping, sustainable, vancouver | 6 Comments »
Not too long ago, like just around canning season, we received a book called Put ’em Up! by Sherri Brooks Vinton. Canning seems to have come into vogue again. This is a good thing. The other cool trend is that as…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Categories: Worship | Tags: andrea bellamy, book review, canning, edible gardening, food preserves, gardening, heavy-petal, local, put em up, sugar snaps and strawberries, sustainable | No Comments »
Sockeye salmon have been returning to the Fraser River in record numbers this year – the largest run in almost one hundred years – and while outdoorsy sports news is usually the type of information that makes…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: chilliwack, fish, locavore, salmon, sockeye, sustainable | 10 Comments »
Slowfood, Edible Vancouver, Ocean Wise, and Foodists form a virtual neighborhood of like-minded responsible citizens in Vancouver that also adore great food. Where these paths cross is exactly where you want be for dinner…
Posted by: Miles Harrison on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: bistro, dinner, ocean wise, sustainable | 1 Comment »
Trafalgar’s Restaurant in Kits, best known for having the largest dessert menu in the city, is changing gears with a specially organized Ocean Wise Dinner this Sunday, July 25th. They’ve had an Ocean Wise…
Posted by: Degan Walters on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Categories: Worship | Tags: oceanwise, Seafood, sustainable | 1 Comment »
This version is decidedly earthy. If you have a cow and want to skim off some cream, that would be delicious. If you live in Jerez, grow grapes and make sherry, that might be a nice addition too (Sherry might also be a…
Posted by: Anthony Nicalo on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Categories: Guidance | Tags: dao tea, local, mushroom, Soups, sustainable, tea | 4 Comments »
There’s a new Vancouver-made documentary about slow food called Tableland that explores sustainable food production. From the orchards of Interior BC, Napa Highlands, rural Quebec and other places where “slow…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: documentary, dvd, film, Slow Food, sustainable, Tableland, Vancity Theatre | 1 Comment »
Organic. Sustainable. All natural. Renewable. Green. Terms bandied about casually these days–especially in food circles–but what does an environmentally responsible approach to beer making mean? For Brooklyn Brewery…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Categories: Meditations | Tags: ale, beer, Brooklyn Brewery, drink, natural, New Jersey, organic, sustainable | 1 Comment »