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Jackie Connelly

Sugar Snaps and Strawberries

by Editor 07.01.2010

Urban Diner’s own Jackie Connelly is a key contributor to a excellent new urban gardening book hitting the digital and physical shelves this week published by Timber Press and entitled, Sugar Snaps and Strawberries: Simple Solutions for Creating Your Own Small Space Edible Garden. Check it out!

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Cointreau Cocktail Competition at Pourhouse

by Jay Jones 11.09.2009

Bartenders are fiercely proud of what they do. It’s not a job, or a career, and much more than a craft – it is a way of life for those lucky enough to do it. Drinking brought us to what we do for a living, and it persists in maintaining our enthusiasm for it.

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Chefs To The Field at Terra Nova

by paulkamon 08.17.2009

If all the food and wine from The Dirty Apron Cooking School open house and VinoCamp CheeseCamp 09 wasn’t enough this weekend, I needed to eat more. Jeesh. However, on Sunday morning I headed to the Chefs To The Field event at Terra Nova Schoolyard Society in Richmond.

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Dirty Apron Cooking School Open House

by paulkamon 08.17.2009

I certainly don’t claim to be any expert on cooking schools, nor interior decorating for that matter, but The Dirty Apron Cooking School is gorgeous. Located at 540 Beatty Street, just a few doors down from Chambar and Medina, the School had their open house this past weekend and it definitely was a popular place [...]

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VinoCamp & CheeseCamp 2009

by paulkamon 08.13.2009

This past Saturday afternoon gave a large room full of wine and cheese nerds an excellent excuse to gather. VinoCamp & CheeseCamp 2009 , a new kind of social media conference “designed for people interested in technology, wine and cheese” was, by all accounts I was exposed to, a huge success. I did hear someone [...]

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UD Pictorial: Patio Season Part 2

by paulkamon 06.05.2009

Check out part two of Jackie Connelly’s patio pictorial inside.

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UD Pictorial: Patio Season Part 1

by paulkamon 05.26.2009

The sun is shining and everything is fine, fine, fine.

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Convention Centre Christened with Industry Fête

by BC Brew 04.01.2009

While it was gloomy outdoors on Monday evening, the glitz and glitter was inside Vancouver’s new Convention Centre West, which played host to 800 people attending the fifth annual BC Restaurant Hall of Fame gala. Appropriately, the expansion’s inaugural event was an opportunity to put the not-quite-finished facility and Executive Chef Blair Rasmussen’s team through [...]