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From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Home is Where the Food is

by paulkamon 11.05.2009

Fabulous video by Vancouver-based animator Jody Kramer (The Juki Museum) produced for the 100-Mile Diet Society.
Also, check out the Vancouver 100-Mile Diet Foodshed Map, to get a lovely visual of where our local food is coming from. Buy a copy of the map here.
Thanks to Jackie Connelly for the link. ~ PK

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Bao Bei

by paulkamon 11.04.2009

Chambar alumni and accomplished bar veteran Tannis Ling is getting set to open her Chinese brasserie “Bao Bei” (‘precious’ in Chinese) by the end of December 2009 with a total of 50 seats (10 at the bar).
She describes the food primary restaurant as an “intimate, unpretentious room serving simple, traditional and quality dishes.”
Ling will be [...]

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The Keefer Bar

by paulkamon 11.04.2009

The Keefer Bar will anchor the ground floor of a luxury “boutique residence” in Chinatown (135 Keefer Street) containing 4 enormous custom designed, fully furnished and serviced lofts for rent. The bar will be overseen by the talented Danielle Tatarin (formerly db Bistro) and plans to serve an eclectic mix of modern Asian cuisine, think [...]

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Food Hero

by Keith Talent 11.04.2009

The Times Online has a good quick interview with should-be-superstar Fergus Henderson in todays edition. I love him , he’s like the UK version of Alice Waters, but without the faint smell of bullshit new age spiritualism and goofy floppy hats. Have a quick look, even though he’s wrong about rice cookers.
~KT

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Mad About Whisky at Campagnolo

by Rick Green 11.03.2009

The 25-seat wine bar at Campagnolo recently received a new lounge license. To celebrate, they held a Mad Men-inspired event on October 29 with Glenfiddich Global Brand Ambassador, Ian Millar. Bar Manager, Giovanni Giardino, served three new cocktails that he created featuring Glenfiddich, while guests were offered a variety of Italian canapés conceived by Chef [...]

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Tinhorn Creek Wine Dinner at Le Gavroche

by paulkamon 11.03.2009

In 2001, Tinhorn Creek Vineyards decided the time was right to craft a new series of wines and thus the Oldfield’s Collection (now called the Oldfield Series) was born. Tinhorn Creek celebrates this harvest season with the release of new Oldfield Series wines, a new vertical package and two winemaker dinners in collaboration with Manuel [...]

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Mission Hill Portfolio Tasting

by paulkamon 11.03.2009

When I was invited to taste the Mission Hill portfolio, I couldn’t help but think about the bargain bin at the local liquor store. What else exists between their innocuous stock wines and Oculus? The Shangri-La hosted a complete tasting that effectively changed my perception of this long standing vineyard and winery in the Okanagan.

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From The Tastes Like Chicken Department

by Keith Talent 11.02.2009

Save the earth, eat a dog. Aside from a slight cop out in the last sentence, Jonathan Safran Foer makes the sensible suggestion that we should eat more dog, if in fact local and sustainable are principles  you really care about. He makes a pretty good case, if even the only objection we have is [...]

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Serious Beer

by paulkamon 11.02.2009

Have you signed up for PICA’S Beer School with @SeriousBeer? If you haven’t, you should because Beer = Good.

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La Stella & Le Vieux Pin at Salt’s Cellar

by Katherine van der Gracht 11.02.2009

Monday night’s La Stella and Le Vieux Pin winery dinner had us all huddled up in Salt Tasting Room’s cozy cellar below Blood Alley. Salt’s underground lair is perhaps what makes their events so glorious: alongside the communal dining room table, are the contents of their showpiece walk-in cooler, temptingly displaying rows upon rows of [...]

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