Apr 6, 2011 Sooke Harbour House We are pleased to introduce you to our new tribute to the heroes of our local food system. The Green Star is awarded to those individuals and ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Anthony Nicalo of Farmstead Wines Photo by Tracey Kusiewicz In 1988, I and other newly minted BCLDB wine consultants knocked back the unique Adventures on the Wine Route with gusto. ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 UBC Farm Photo by Tracey Kusiewicz Amy Frye toodles the campus delivering UBC Farm free-range eggs to Agora and Sprouts, student-run organic cafés/stores. ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Michael Ableman of Foxglove Farm Perched high up Mt. Maxwell in a clearing you could miss if you didn’t know just how to find it, sits Foxglove Farm, one of BC’s most ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Barbara-Jo McIntosh Photo by Tracey Kusiewicz When Umberto Menghi’s Vancouver restaurants upped the city’s dining ante, several local luminaries were spawned. John ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Lee Fuge of FoodRoots Photo of Lee Fuge by Sherri Kostian Nowadays it seems many people know about food issues such as sustainability and security. Yet we’re still ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Apr 5, 2011 Lemon and Lavender Shortbread Cookies Sacred Mountain Lavender Farm on Salt Spring Island offers up this variation of a holiday ... Read More Sustainability Feb 16, 2011 Confessions from a degenerate Victoria gardener Or, “Why this city won’t let me ignore my weeds any longer” By Melanie Tromp Hoover I keep hoping for snow. Snow would mean that I ... Read More Books Dec 19, 2010 Blue Water Café, C Food, The Main, Vancouver Cooks-2 and more I adore my classic cookbooks. It’s wonderful having Elizabeth (David) and Julia in the kitchen and The Joy of Cooking on my shelf. I’ve no ... Read More Books Nov 30, 2010 In Search of Food Heroes Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition, by Georgia Pellegrini (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) I first heard of Georgia Pellegrini on ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Apr 6, 2011 Anthony Nicalo of Farmstead Wines Photo by Tracey Kusiewicz In 1988, I and other newly minted BCLDB wine consultants knocked back the unique Adventures on the Wine Route with gusto. ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 UBC Farm Photo by Tracey Kusiewicz Amy Frye toodles the campus delivering UBC Farm free-range eggs to Agora and Sprouts, student-run organic cafés/stores. ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Michael Ableman of Foxglove Farm Perched high up Mt. Maxwell in a clearing you could miss if you didn’t know just how to find it, sits Foxglove Farm, one of BC’s most ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Barbara-Jo McIntosh Photo by Tracey Kusiewicz When Umberto Menghi’s Vancouver restaurants upped the city’s dining ante, several local luminaries were spawned. John ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Lee Fuge of FoodRoots Photo of Lee Fuge by Sherri Kostian Nowadays it seems many people know about food issues such as sustainability and security. Yet we’re still ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Apr 5, 2011 Lemon and Lavender Shortbread Cookies Sacred Mountain Lavender Farm on Salt Spring Island offers up this variation of a holiday ... Read More Sustainability Feb 16, 2011 Confessions from a degenerate Victoria gardener Or, “Why this city won’t let me ignore my weeds any longer” By Melanie Tromp Hoover I keep hoping for snow. Snow would mean that I ... Read More Books Dec 19, 2010 Blue Water Café, C Food, The Main, Vancouver Cooks-2 and more I adore my classic cookbooks. It’s wonderful having Elizabeth (David) and Julia in the kitchen and The Joy of Cooking on my shelf. I’ve no ... Read More Books Nov 30, 2010 In Search of Food Heroes Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition, by Georgia Pellegrini (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) I first heard of Georgia Pellegrini on ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Apr 6, 2011 UBC Farm Photo by Tracey Kusiewicz Amy Frye toodles the campus delivering UBC Farm free-range eggs to Agora and Sprouts, student-run organic cafés/stores. ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Michael Ableman of Foxglove Farm Perched high up Mt. Maxwell in a clearing you could miss if you didn’t know just how to find it, sits Foxglove Farm, one of BC’s most ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Barbara-Jo McIntosh Photo by Tracey Kusiewicz When Umberto Menghi’s Vancouver restaurants upped the city’s dining ante, several local luminaries were spawned. John ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Lee Fuge of FoodRoots Photo of Lee Fuge by Sherri Kostian Nowadays it seems many people know about food issues such as sustainability and security. Yet we’re still ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Apr 5, 2011 Lemon and Lavender Shortbread Cookies Sacred Mountain Lavender Farm on Salt Spring Island offers up this variation of a holiday ... Read More Sustainability Feb 16, 2011 Confessions from a degenerate Victoria gardener Or, “Why this city won’t let me ignore my weeds any longer” By Melanie Tromp Hoover I keep hoping for snow. Snow would mean that I ... Read More Books Dec 19, 2010 Blue Water Café, C Food, The Main, Vancouver Cooks-2 and more I adore my classic cookbooks. It’s wonderful having Elizabeth (David) and Julia in the kitchen and The Joy of Cooking on my shelf. I’ve no ... Read More Books Nov 30, 2010 In Search of Food Heroes Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition, by Georgia Pellegrini (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) I first heard of Georgia Pellegrini on ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Apr 6, 2011 Michael Ableman of Foxglove Farm Perched high up Mt. Maxwell in a clearing you could miss if you didn’t know just how to find it, sits Foxglove Farm, one of BC’s most ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Barbara-Jo McIntosh Photo by Tracey Kusiewicz When Umberto Menghi’s Vancouver restaurants upped the city’s dining ante, several local luminaries were spawned. John ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Lee Fuge of FoodRoots Photo of Lee Fuge by Sherri Kostian Nowadays it seems many people know about food issues such as sustainability and security. Yet we’re still ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Apr 5, 2011 Lemon and Lavender Shortbread Cookies Sacred Mountain Lavender Farm on Salt Spring Island offers up this variation of a holiday ... Read More Sustainability Feb 16, 2011 Confessions from a degenerate Victoria gardener Or, “Why this city won’t let me ignore my weeds any longer” By Melanie Tromp Hoover I keep hoping for snow. Snow would mean that I ... Read More Books Dec 19, 2010 Blue Water Café, C Food, The Main, Vancouver Cooks-2 and more I adore my classic cookbooks. It’s wonderful having Elizabeth (David) and Julia in the kitchen and The Joy of Cooking on my shelf. I’ve no ... Read More Books Nov 30, 2010 In Search of Food Heroes Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition, by Georgia Pellegrini (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) I first heard of Georgia Pellegrini on ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Apr 6, 2011 Barbara-Jo McIntosh Photo by Tracey Kusiewicz When Umberto Menghi’s Vancouver restaurants upped the city’s dining ante, several local luminaries were spawned. John ... Read More Apr 6, 2011 Lee Fuge of FoodRoots Photo of Lee Fuge by Sherri Kostian Nowadays it seems many people know about food issues such as sustainability and security. Yet we’re still ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Apr 5, 2011 Lemon and Lavender Shortbread Cookies Sacred Mountain Lavender Farm on Salt Spring Island offers up this variation of a holiday ... Read More Sustainability Feb 16, 2011 Confessions from a degenerate Victoria gardener Or, “Why this city won’t let me ignore my weeds any longer” By Melanie Tromp Hoover I keep hoping for snow. Snow would mean that I ... Read More Books Dec 19, 2010 Blue Water Café, C Food, The Main, Vancouver Cooks-2 and more I adore my classic cookbooks. It’s wonderful having Elizabeth (David) and Julia in the kitchen and The Joy of Cooking on my shelf. I’ve no ... Read More Books Nov 30, 2010 In Search of Food Heroes Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition, by Georgia Pellegrini (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) I first heard of Georgia Pellegrini on ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Apr 6, 2011 Lee Fuge of FoodRoots Photo of Lee Fuge by Sherri Kostian Nowadays it seems many people know about food issues such as sustainability and security. Yet we’re still ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Apr 5, 2011 Lemon and Lavender Shortbread Cookies Sacred Mountain Lavender Farm on Salt Spring Island offers up this variation of a holiday ... Read More Sustainability Feb 16, 2011 Confessions from a degenerate Victoria gardener Or, “Why this city won’t let me ignore my weeds any longer” By Melanie Tromp Hoover I keep hoping for snow. Snow would mean that I ... Read More Books Dec 19, 2010 Blue Water Café, C Food, The Main, Vancouver Cooks-2 and more I adore my classic cookbooks. It’s wonderful having Elizabeth (David) and Julia in the kitchen and The Joy of Cooking on my shelf. I’ve no ... Read More Books Nov 30, 2010 In Search of Food Heroes Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition, by Georgia Pellegrini (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) I first heard of Georgia Pellegrini on ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Dessert / Recipes Apr 5, 2011 Lemon and Lavender Shortbread Cookies Sacred Mountain Lavender Farm on Salt Spring Island offers up this variation of a holiday ... Read More Sustainability Feb 16, 2011 Confessions from a degenerate Victoria gardener Or, “Why this city won’t let me ignore my weeds any longer” By Melanie Tromp Hoover I keep hoping for snow. Snow would mean that I ... Read More Books Dec 19, 2010 Blue Water Café, C Food, The Main, Vancouver Cooks-2 and more I adore my classic cookbooks. It’s wonderful having Elizabeth (David) and Julia in the kitchen and The Joy of Cooking on my shelf. I’ve no ... Read More Books Nov 30, 2010 In Search of Food Heroes Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition, by Georgia Pellegrini (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) I first heard of Georgia Pellegrini on ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Sustainability Feb 16, 2011 Confessions from a degenerate Victoria gardener Or, “Why this city won’t let me ignore my weeds any longer” By Melanie Tromp Hoover I keep hoping for snow. Snow would mean that I ... Read More Books Dec 19, 2010 Blue Water Café, C Food, The Main, Vancouver Cooks-2 and more I adore my classic cookbooks. It’s wonderful having Elizabeth (David) and Julia in the kitchen and The Joy of Cooking on my shelf. I’ve no ... Read More Books Nov 30, 2010 In Search of Food Heroes Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition, by Georgia Pellegrini (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) I first heard of Georgia Pellegrini on ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Books Dec 19, 2010 Blue Water Café, C Food, The Main, Vancouver Cooks-2 and more I adore my classic cookbooks. It’s wonderful having Elizabeth (David) and Julia in the kitchen and The Joy of Cooking on my shelf. I’ve no ... Read More Books Nov 30, 2010 In Search of Food Heroes Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition, by Georgia Pellegrini (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) I first heard of Georgia Pellegrini on ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Books Nov 30, 2010 In Search of Food Heroes Food Heroes: 16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition, by Georgia Pellegrini (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) I first heard of Georgia Pellegrini on ... Read More Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Dessert / Recipes Oct 6, 2010 Sherry-Poached Pears Poached and Roasted Pears 4 ripe Bartlett pears 300 mL oloroso sherry 100 mL sugar zest of 1/2 orange 1.25 mL ground black pepper 50 mL raisins 30 mL ... Read More Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
Food Events Sep 23, 2010 Vancouver Island Feast of Fields Day 6am – woke up to the bellow of fog horns and look out the window into thick pea soup 9am – thunder and lightning - ! 9:30am - the heaviest rain ... Read More 1...6465666768697071
