Dessert / Recipes Apr 6, 2011 Beet Snow Sorbet Beet Snow Sorbet Phil McCaffrey, chef at Inn on the Lake, provided this recipe to accompany Julie Pegg’s Jan/Feb 2009 Food Matters (pg. 9) 6 ... Read More
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
Interesting Locals Apr 6, 2011 Tom Henry “Everything I said is bullshit” is Tom Henry’s final remark of our interview. This modest dismissal of his pearls of wisdom galvanize ... 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 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 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
Wine Festivals Apr 4, 2011 Vancouver Playhouse 2011: Day 5 Home stretch! Final weekend of the whirlwind of wining and dining. Though a lot of my week was spent in trade and industry events, the weekend was ... Read More
Wine Festivals Apr 1, 2011 Vancouver Playhouse 2011: Day 4 Day 4, and the will is still strong, though the flesh is feeling a little weak. I realized I didn’t get out in the fresh air from 9am-7pm on Day 4. ... Read More
Wine Festivals Mar 31, 2011 Vancouver Playhouse 2011: Day 3 Today was the kid-in-a-candy store kick off to trade. I should translate. “Trade” is shorthand for the hospitality industry professionals-only ... Read More
