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Canadian cuisine

Tales of the Cocktail on Tour Returns to Vancouver in time for Valentine’s

January 27, 2012

It’s just a couple of weeks until Tales of the Cocktail on Tour rolls into Vancouver, Feb 12-14, to no doubt repeat its highly successful inaugural show from last March. Not familiar with this pretty awesome salute to the wood? Read all about last year’s here. This year’s program is greatly expanded. From the 2012 release: Held once [...]

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Going Haywire (with a little BS thrown in) at Edible Canada at the Market

December 20, 2011

Yesterday we took time out from our pre-holidays deadline whirl, and Zagat Survey wrap-up (hence the lack of posts here), to catch lunch with the Okanagan Crushpad gang and consulting winemaker  Alberto Antonini. His best quote of the day was: “If I was a yeast, I wouldn’t want to spend my life in stainless steel!”, [...]

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Edible Canada at the Market: A Tasty chat with Eric Pateman

August 18, 2011

The other day we checked out Edible Canada at the Market, the new, all-things-very-culinary-Canuckish bistro on Granville Island, that opened—appropriately—on Canada Day. As it turned out, getting there proved to be half the fun. I’d forgotten how enjoyable it is to take the ferry across False Creek–especially on a perfect summer’s day. But as I [...]

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Canadian Cuisine, eh?

February 11, 2010

Just what is Canadian cuisine, anyway? Here come the Feds to the rescue… At some ungodly hour yesterday morning, the Ministry of Agriculture threw a breakfast bash featuring some of the country’s top chefs preparing dishes of locally sourced ingredients from across the land. No seal meat or caribou, though, as the ‘True’ North didn’t [...]

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