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Creative? – An Audience With Ferran Adrià
London, UK It is a question that quietly haunts chefs: what is creativity? From raw ingredients, fire and knives a meal is created, but is it inherently creative? As individual professionals are...
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I thought I knew olive oil. I was wrong.
“The olive oil industry in North America makes me crazy.” says Tonio Creanza in his thick Italian accent to our group sitting around a large rustic table in what could only be described as a cavernous...
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Running On Wine
All marathons are long, but wineglass in hand one is longer than all others. Each September the legendary Medoc region of Bordeaux hosts the Marathon du Medoc; self-declared Le Marathon Le Plus Long...
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Tickets Still Available for Passion Charity Event This Weekend
Hopefully you’ve heard the news about the 10th annual Passions: “Paint The Town Red” fundraising gala happening Sunday, September 15, 2013, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m at the Dr. Peter Centre. Founded by our...
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Video: Eating Brackendale – Breakfast & Eagles
We’d heard chatter about a cafe up near Squamish called Fergie’s Cafe that people would literally drive up from Vancouver or down from Whistler for. We had to try it for ourselves, so one recent foggy...
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Revolver Ends Coffee Debate
The $9.50 I handed over for a morning coffee doomed this report from the beginning. The plan had been a one-day celebratory survey of what unique values Vancouver brings to the world’s gastronomic...
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The Booze and The Bees
Growing up in North Vancouver, Michael Cober recalls being fascinated by watching bees working in the hives his father kept. “My love of beekeeping is about not just getting outside and being in...
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Cooking Classes For DTES At Risk Women Needs Your Support
It’s well known that Vancouver’s DTES is crowded with women fighting to just survive, living in SROs like Atira’s 108 room Sorella House at Abbott and Pender. But have you ever thought about how these...
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Film and Feast – an exciting event from Yash & Winner Winner
We foodists are always looking for new ways to celebrate food and food culture. We’ve been kicking around the idea of doing a food-focussed film festival and, lo-and-behold, some very talented...
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Mange to Basta! My Pasta Freska Experience.
My dad recently turned 78 and for his birthday my upwardly mobile parents and I journeyed to Seattle by Amtrak for the weekend. I highly recommend the train – it’s a great way to travel down to the...
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Mahony & Sons at Stamps Landing
Just one of the stellar views at Mahony & Sons at Stamps Landing. I think I’m going to be spending a lot of time at the new Mahony & Sons at Stamps Landing. I could go on an...
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Raising the “STAKEs”
When I hear about restaurants in casinos I always think…“meh”. I conjure up visions of big plates of cheap food, smothered in even cheaper sauces. I once went to a casino in Kansas City where I...
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Greasy Spoon Diner Supper Series – Eating, Serving & Feeding in Vancouver’s DTES
I haven’t served meals in a restaurant since the 1980’s, and I rarely eat at old school diners anymore. Recently I got the opportunity to do both recently while helping those in need in my community....
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Whole Foods Launches Brain Food Speakers Series
How would you like to spend an afternoon with some of Vancouver’s most innovative, inspiring, and creative minds who work with food to innovate, unite, and create change? Right? Well thanks to Whole...
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Between Meals: Cycling the Italian Dolomites
Vacant eyes obsessively track the road’s painted solid white line. Deep breaths repetitively inhale the increasingly sparse oxygen. Pedals turnover rhythmically up the unceasing ten degree incline....
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