Farm & Market / Vancouver Jun 19, 2014 Meet Your Farmer: Urban Digs Farm Amidst office buildings and residential homes in the Big Bend area of South Burnaby sits three acres of agriculture property known as Urban Digs ... Read More
Top 5 / Victoria Jun 19, 2014 The Best Spring Rolls in Victoria A tasty appetizer in East and Southeast Asian cuisine is the spring roll. Not exactly for the calorie conscious, but let’s face it, spring rolls ... Read More
Okanagan / Wineries & Breweries Jun 18, 2014 20 Years at Tinhorn Creek Vineyards: Building A Sustainable Business In many industries, a sustainable business is the result of strategic planning, educated risk-taking, and continued innovation. In agriculture, ... Read More
Drink This / Wine Jun 18, 2014 Rosé Revolution – The Ultimate BC Rosé Guide: 40 Wines Reviewed Perhaps better Rosé Evolution? At least here in BC, where we have collectively embraced the joy of dry, refreshing rosés after far too long in the ... Read More
Elsewhere / Events Jun 17, 2014 Tofino Food and Wine Festival 2014 That’s it. I’ve been Tofino-fied, or Tofinated. Whatever it’s called, I’m pretty sure it happened to me this past weekend at the Tofino Food ... Read More
Restaurants / Victoria Jun 17, 2014 Dim Sum Two Ways Dim Sum, the Cantonese equivalent of tapas, is one of my biggest culinary fetishes. It is at its heart a communal affair; often one must share a ... Read More
Restaurants / Victoria Jun 16, 2014 Secrets of Victoria: The Solomon Edition These are not the five best spots in Victoria. They aren’t even necessarily my top five favourites. But they are five of the most underrated, ... Read More
Must Have / Victoria Jun 16, 2014 Thoughts from (Patisserie) Daniel At first, I don’t notice the breadboards crammed into spare pockets of space at Patisserie Daniel. Hundreds of breadboards. One entire wall groans ... Read More
Pantry Jun 13, 2014 Lettuce Be Friends The indispensable salad ingredient, lettuce, is packed with chlorophyll, giving it an earthy, lush taste. Gentle and delicate, lettuce is heat ... Read More
Interesting Locals / Restaurants / Victoria Jun 13, 2014 The Philosophy of Local Cuisine: Spinnakers Gastro Brewpub Turns 30 When I go to see Paul Hadfield at Spinnakers, he and chef Ali Ryan are twenty feet up in a tree behind the restaurant trying to corral a thick knot ... Read More
Restaurants / Victoria Jun 12, 2014 A Day of Eating Vegan – Top Victoria Spots Veganism is a scary and misunderstood word for many. Yet, unlike the prevailing understanding, which equates vegan food to carrot sticks and salad, ... Read More
Interesting Locals / Victoria Jun 12, 2014 How to Feed a Game Designer with KANO/APPS No Doritos, no Twizzlers, no Mountain Dew. What kind of game studio is this? In many ways, social gaming startup KANO/APPS is a poster child for ... Read More
