Cuisine Canada Scene

Beating Procrastination

According to a recent MailChimp survey based on more than 9 BILLION emails, most of us read and answer work emails from home. If you’re a freelancer, as many food writers are, email alone threatens to eliminate the already blurry line between work and personal time. Add in smart phones, laptops and portable devices such [...]

Recipe Code Plugins to the Rescue

Wondering what the picture is of? It’s an example of the code Google now requires for their Recipe Search feature. If you think it looks scary, you’re not alone. When Dianne Jacobs wrote about the issue on Will Write for Food, more than 100 comments poured in. The curious may read about it here. In [...]

Google Recipe Search

Will Google Recipe Search Help or Hurt Us? Written by Charmian Christie Google has added a new search function, Google Recipe Search, that allows people to locate highly targeted recipes using a wide range of parameters. Want chicken curry without cardamom? Just click a few buttons. Got a time limit? Set that too. And don’t [...]

Will Write for Food

Will Write For Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir, and More Written by Dianne Jacobs Reviewed by Jennifer Cockrall-King When you jump into the world of food writing — most probably out of sheer enthusiasm for writing, eating and perhaps cooking as most of us do — the terrain is uncertain [...]

Okanagan Food & Wine Writer’s Workshop 2010

With hundreds of world-class wineries, and increasingly home to a number of Canada’s best chefs, the Okanagan Valley is a top global food and wine destination. It’s also now host to the Okanagan Food & Wine Writers Workshop, based out of Penticton, British Columbia, a two-and-a-half-day workshop with professional development seminars open to writers of [...]

Canadian Food Culture Dismissed Along with Chatto

There is no more fundamental component of culture than food and drink.   As Brillat Savarin wrote, “The fate of nations depends upon how they eat.” A starving nation is known as a failed state. These are dark days here in Canada. Food sections have been radically down-sized.  People who merely eat have become self-proclaimed experts.  [...]

iPad Blows (out the candles)

In a recent episode of Modern Family, Phil blows out virtual birthday candles via his brand new iPad. This party trick is not the imagination of a TV writer. The application, Birthday a la Carte, exists.The screen’s sensor is so advanced it allows users to extinguish candles with their breath. And the app costs $0.99 [...]