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Keith Talent

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Cloned Zombie Rib Eye? Yum.

by Keith Talent 08.16.2010

So now scientists are cloning dead cows? Anything that makes you reminisce fondly for the days when the only hazard caused by your burger was due being  amalgam of thousand of animals and feces and spines and what ever else was laying around the meat plant ground together. The beef industry already tried creating cannibal [...]

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The Vancouver Dining Drinking Game

by Keith Talent 08.15.2010

Who needs a drink? Clip this handy guide for next time you go out, booze should be readily available, and the proprietor should appreciate the uptick in business.

If your celebrity bar-star is sporting a jaunty pageboy cap, drink.
If the dork at the next table whips out a Nikon more appropriate to war journalism to snap [...]

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The Great Food Revolution, Online

by Keith Talent 08.04.2010

The constant low level nagging irritant of being denied streaming media a la Hulu in the states due to backward thinking copyright law and parochial Canadian rights holders is mitigated somewhat by CBC’s streaming media. Not enough to ease the sting of not being able to watch 30 Rock at any time, but baby steps [...]

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What’s Your Sign?

by Keith Talent 07.28.2010

Last week I posted a link to a piece critical of the practice of biodynamics. I was thrilled with the responses it generated, it’s heartening to have readers feel so passionately about a topic that they are willing to defend their beliefs tooth and nail. Now I get the bully pulpit to rebut some of [...]

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The Nuttiest Thing You’ll Read All Week

by Keith Talent 07.21.2010

If you read anything stranger this week, you may want to dial back the mescaline intake. The San Francisco Gate investigates (via Boing Boing) the rise of biodynamic wines, the truth is 100 times wackier than you ever imagined. Part organic farming, part new age zodiac nonsense, it’s as surreal a read as you are [...]

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Things That Make You Say “Huh?”

by Keith Talent 07.19.2010

Current subtle shifts in Vancouver’s post recession dining scene have got me scratching my head. Chief among them is the current insistence of the bright young things to do away with a reservation system. Cafeteria, L’Abattoir and Bao Bei, arguably the three hottest new spots operate on a first come basis. Why? Just because Vij’s [...]

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Today In Wine News

by Keith Talent 07.10.2010

Pennsylvania is the only other jurisdiction outside Islamic nations whose liquor retailing is as convoluted and juvenile as ours here in British Columbia. They are set to introduce an idea so epically stupid it’s hard to believe that it wasn’t thought of here first. Here is how the new wine vending machines will operate.

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Wine World Fraud

by Keith Talent 06.16.2010

Slate.com does a bang up investigation into alleged wine counterfeiting. The short version reads like this; Flashy dirtbags befriend Robert Parker, who then talks up fake wines bought by gullible billionaires, so yeah, a pretty much victimless crime. Here’s a wine buying tip, if your purveyor refers to ‘61 Latour as “Kinky Juice!”, you should [...]

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Quit Phoning Bees To Death

by Keith Talent 06.07.2010

So scientists claim to have figured what is causing bee mortality rates to mimic those of eighteen year olds with high performance motorcycles. They claim, wait for it, that it’s you and your iPhone. Uhhh, sure, spraying pesticides all over everything probably has nothing to do with it. Have these scientists never heard of Occam’s [...]

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Durbach Goes East

by Keith Talent 06.07.2010

Details about Parkside east in the old Pings location on Main are beginning to firm up. First, we can report the space will be called Cafeteria and will not accept reservations, it will be strictly first come first served. Plates will all be under twenty bucks and the menu will be reminiscent of the early [...]

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