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Leah’s mother exaggerates most things by a factor of 1000. Filling up her car these days, for example, costs about 100,000 bucks. So, while listening to Dixie as she told a wonderful, romantic story of cooking a…
Posted by: Jay and Leah on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: beer, clams, fire, roast, roasting, thanksgiving, turkey, video, Wine | 4 Comments »
1. It’s not just about wine. This year there was a CheeseCamp track too. Yes, real, serious, delicious conversations about cheese. 2. You’d have understood that if you forget your wine country map that’s…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: booze, cheese, CheeseCampVan09, event, pairings, VCCC09, VinoCamp, VinoCampVan09, Wine | No Comments »
My sister & I had bought this bottle in the first week on the evening of a balmy July, at the Kitsilano Wine Cellar near my apartment. The intent of whatever wine we had chosen was to serve not only for taste, but as…
Posted by: Sylvia Zygalo on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: Grateful Palate Imports, Luchador Shiraz 2006, Wine | 1 Comment »
Don’t forget that tomorrow, August 8th, is VinoCamp Vancouver 2009, with the first annual CheeseCamp! Various Foodists will be in the crowd at UBC’s Grad Student Centre, likely half-cut on wines from Mark…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 7th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cheese, CheeseCamp, event, UBC, vancouver, VinoCamp, Wine | No Comments »
What goes better with good wine than a fine cheese? That’s right—nothing! Which is why the organizers of the second annual VinoCamp Vancouver 09 have added CheeseCamp to their educational sessions and tasting…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cheese, CheeseCamp, event, UBC, vancouver, VinoCamp, Wine | 5 Comments »
Sure there are those packets of ready made risotto but nothing beats making it from scratch yourself. Fellow Foodists Colin has written about his Best Risotto Ever (and the amended New Best Risotto Ever), and I revisited…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Categories: Guidance | Tags: avocado, chardonnay, Risotto, seasonal food, shallots, tomato, Wine | 6 Comments »
A read through the comments on the Foodists post To Review or Not Review will reveal an interesting discourse on the notion that today’s restaurant cannot afford to ignore the online world. What’s said about…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, May 8th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: blogger outreach, r.TL, Regional Tasting Lounge, restaurant, review, Wine | 2 Comments »
Many of us Foodists flocked to the opportunity for a private dining evening at an Underground Restaurant known only as “12B”. I was with a fantastic group of 8 diners for the Saturday evening leg of a two…
Posted by: Johnathon Vaughn on Monday, March 30th, 2009
Categories: Worship | Tags: beverage, champagne, dinner, Wine, wine pairing | No Comments »
Wow, did Anthony just say that in front of 200 marketing professionals? Yup, seems so. This is how the BCAMA wine & cheese event began recently—an evening promising lessons about how great wine makes farming sexy;…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: anthony nicalo, BCAMA, canada, cheese, event, farmstead, marketing, vancouver, Wine | 2 Comments »
In wine-producing regions around the world, wine is accessible: celebrated in daily life and shared often with family and friends. Why, oh, why is this not the case in Vancouver?
Posted by: Karen Hamilton on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Memphis Blues, Raincity Grill, restaurant, Salt Tasting Room, vancouver, Wine | 5 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 »
Recently I’ve been researching data visualization design for a project about our exposure to consumer brands and came across this website that explores the various tasting notes commonly associated with different…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Categories: Meditations | Tags: flavour, taste notes, visualization, website, Wine | 2 Comments »
Every day on the way to work, I walk past a bunch of great restaurants on 4th Ave. Fuel, Gastropod and more recently, Trattoria. The one time I tried to go before, the line up was over an hour long and I’ve never…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Categories: Worship | Tags: italian, Pasta, restaurant, review, Trattoria Italian Kitchen, Wine | 1 Comment »
Any dinner billed as The Dinner of the Decade has got to have some weight behind it. Not only does this one have some weight but also some of the most recognized names in Vancouver. David Hawksworth, Hidekazu Tojo,…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Categories: Meditations | Tags: celebrity, chef, dinner, event, french-food, Wine | 3 Comments »
I was running through a great recipe from Rouxbe yesterday, Chicken Saltimbocca, and ran into an all too familiar situation. The recipe called for 4oz of white wine which left…well…almost an open full bottle…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Categories: Guidance | Tags: ingredient, liquid, Wine | 8 Comments »