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Talking Points

Is the World Ready for White Sturgeon Caviar from the Fraser River?

by paulkamon 10.04.2011

Is Sechelt going to be the caviar capital of Canada? The Sunshine Coast’s Target Marine Hatcheries, the producers of Northern Divine caviar think so, and have invested over $5 million dollars over the last 11 years to prove it.

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BC Box Wine

by John Clerides 09.22.2011

Most wine articles are confined to the back pages of the newspaper, or published in trade or tourist focused publications. They tend to focus on how great we are, where to go and what to do, rarely do articles get published on the business of wine. When Gordon Hamilton wrote an article on changing buying [...]

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Coffee Certifications

by Mette-Marie Hansen 09.19.2011

“Is Your Coffee Fair Trade and Sustainable and Organic?”
I just got this question from a concerned consumer, and she was raising valid questions about well known certifications and buzz-words. The question is simple, and doesn’t require more than a yes-or-no, but as much as I love coffee, I love the opportunity to discuss and explore [...]

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Selling Out – Part 2

by Jacob Galbraith 08.31.2011

(Read “Selling Out – Part 1“)
I walked away from the orientation sessions with a comprehensive knowledge of three things: the benefits packages, breakfast pastries, and the peripheral interests of several people I would never speak to again. At the outset I understood that I was signing up for a culture shock, but the environmental contrast [...]

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A Short History of the Human Diet

by Todd Caldecott 08.30.2011

(Image by Banksy)
Human evolution has been a gradual process over millions of years, from our earliest ancestors that diverged from other primates over four to seven million years ago, to the modern Homo sapiens of today. We first begin to bear some semblance to the modern human as Homo habilis and H. erectus 2-3 million [...]

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Why Not Wet Grind?

by Colter Jones 08.25.2011

A video was recently posted of David Walsh talking about the possibility of wet grinding coffee to prevent some of the limiting factors that modern grinders present us with. David is one of the minds at Marco that helped to create the Über Grinder and the Über Boiler, which are two devices in an elite [...]

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Selling Out – Part 1

by Jacob Galbraith 08.15.2011

I’m a large doses kind of guy, which isn’t always good. I’m lucking that hard drugs never found their way into my bloodstream, because I’d be the dead kind of drug addict, for sure. I either do something exclusively for years, like obsess over pop punk as an angsty middle class teenager, or pour myself [...]

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Sandwiches You Should NOT Like

by Canucklehead 06.30.2011

After all the chit chat about all the great artisanal sandwiches in Vancouver, it seems like the world’s two most powerful fast food chains have been listening. And their response has not been warm and fuzzy. It’s been Unleash Hell!
In the battle for anti-sandwich supremacy, KFC and McDonalds have both sent out their most fearsome [...]

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B.C.’s 90 Year Hangover

by Editor 06.15.2011

June 15, 2011 is the 90th Anniversary of the repeal of prohibition in BC and the establishment of government control of the sale of liquor within the province. The BC prohibition commenced on October 1, 1917. It was soon judged a failure, resulting in law-abiding citizens becoming criminals for simply wanting to have a drink [...]

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Coffee Tech Talk

by Colter Jones 05.25.2011

Portafilter baskets are a sadly neglected item in the espresso arsenal, which is a shame because their performance is one of the large contributing factors to the taste and ability to replicate great espresso. Most espresso machine companies have treated filter baskets as an after-thought by delegating basket production to outside manufacturers. A couple of [...]

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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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Alcohol

by Todd Caldecott 05.18.2011

At the height of summer when the branches weigh heavy with fruit and the wafting sweetness saturates the air, the wild yeasts have already begun to feed. These ubiquitous fungi found on the skins ferment the fruit sugars to provide them with the energy needed for their growth and reproduction, and in so doing, [...]

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