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Dale Mackay Wins Top Chef Canada

by Editor 07.05.2011

Dale MacKay – Canada’s First Top Chef! At a friends and family fundraiser party at ensemble yesterday evening, Chef Dale MacKay and 65 guests enjoyed a four-course TV dinner of sorts, while the season finale of the Food Network’s Top Chef Canada played out on several flatscreens set up for the occasion.
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Local Fresh Food Market – Farmers-Owned Store (Re)Opens in Vancouver

by Editor 06.23.2011

The Local Fresh Food Market has risen out of the ashes of adversity and transformed into a farmer owned store that is fast becoming a vital part of the neighbourhood and a direct link to local farm products.
Formerly known as the Grow-In Grocer, the store almost collapsed when former owner, Deb Reynolds, disappeared with the [...]

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Solutions from the Underground: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

by Editor 05.21.2011

Fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer some powerful, practical solutions to many of the forces of environmental degradation facing the biosphere. The central premise is that habitats have immune systems, just like people, and our close evolutionary relationship to fungi can be the basis for novel pairings that lead to greater sustainability and better health. Paul Stamets [...]

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Spring PR Egg – Vino + Edition

by Editor 05.20.2011

Okanagan Crush Pad: “Eggs The Big Thing for Spring”; Looking forward – Playhouse Wine Festival 2012; Spring wines and special projects at Laughing Stock Vineyards; LaStella Spring New Releases; Summer begins at Market by Jean-Georges; Kristian Eligh announced as Chef de Cuisine at Hawksworth Restaurant; Upcoming events at Legacy Liquor Store; Hamilton Street Grill Monthly [...]

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2011 VCBW Collaboration Ale Launch at R&B Brewing

by Editor 04.04.2011

(Image courtesy of: Brian K. Smith Photography)
In celebration of Vancouver Craft Beer Week’s return, 25 of British Columbia’s finest craft breweries have banded together to create a collaboration ale, with all profits being donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society Tsunami Relief Fund. This year’s collaboration beer style is Cascadian Dark Ale, a style that [...]

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Sustainability Alert: Vancouver Tool Library

by paulkamon 04.02.2011

I caught this recent retweet from Vancouver City mayor, Gregor Robertson, of councillor Andrea Reimer’s post about a tool co-op starting up in East Van. Sounds like a great idea!
The Vancouver Tool Library (VTL) is a cooperative tool lending library currently being established in East Vancouver. The VTL will be equipped with a [...]

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PR ~ 2011 Spring Wine Edition

by Editor 03.26.2011

Tickets still available to top events at the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival; Sanafir raises a glass to the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival; Upcoming events at Top Table; Kurtis Kolt to direct wine program at Rosewood Hotel Georgia; March events at Legacy Liquor Store; Upcoming events at La Table Commune at Firefly Cambie Street; [...]

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Blue Mountain & Friends Event Raises $7,000 for British Columbia Hospitality Foundation

by Editor 02.18.2011

On Monday, January 17 2011, the Okanagan’s Blue Mountain Winery and a dozen local restaurants hosted an evening of fine food and wine at Vancouver’s Four Seasons Hotel. Blue Mountain Vineyard and Cellars is pleased to announce that the event raised $7,000 to benefit the British Columbia Hospitality Foundation.
Guests at the lively grazing-style event [...]

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Imminent Holidays PR Delivery

by Editor 12.21.2010

Vancouver restaurant industry trio make Food Bank appeal; Blue Mountain and Friends: A Feast for the Senses; Maenam goes southern Thai; New Year’s Eve wine drinker dinner at Two Chefs and a Table; The GLOWBAL COLLECTION of Restaurants celebrate New Year’s Eve; Celebrate the holidays at Hamilton Street Grill; Holiday events at db bistro and [...]

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Vancouver Screening: “Milk War”

by Editor 12.09.2010

Details and trailer inside.

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Good Cause: Dish n’ Dazzle 2010

by Editor 10.22.2010

Dish n’ Dazzle 2010 – the BC Hospitality Foundation’s Fall Fundraiser on Monday, October 25th will showcase 13 of BC’s top chefs and 6 high calibre bartenders. The evening will be one full of fun and energy featuring an exciting Cocktail contest, food and wine bars, live music from “lesismore” and a celebration honouring unsung [...]

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Passions – Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation Fundraiser

by Katherine van der Gracht 09.26.2010

UPDATED WITH PICTURES – 10:50 pm Sept 26/10
Over 300 of Vancouver’s best dressed and who’s who braved the blustery wind and the rain to attend “Passions”, the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation’s annual gala, held Sunday night at the foundation’s West End Centre on Comox Street.

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