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 all levels. From September 16 to 19, 2010, food and wine writers and editors from Canada and the US will gather to eat, sip, nosh and talk about the hottest topics in the world of …

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.  Food writing is added to magazines and newspapers almost as an afterthought.   The most stunningly–stupid nail in the coffin was driven in last week in Toronto.  With the dismissal of James Chatto from Toronto Life it …

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 — about the price of a package of real birthday candles you use once.
While the black-and-white, non-illuminated Kindle hasn’t made much of a dent in the cookbook market, the shiny bright iPad might. It rivals …

The observant reader will notice we’ve added a new category — Food Writing. Since the majority of Cuisine Canada members write cookbooks, articles, columns or recipes, we thought this blog would be an ideal place to discuss the changes our profession is experiencing thanks to the Internet, portable technology and shifts in lifestyle.
At a recent food writing symposium in New York, a group of emerging and established food writers gathered to figure out where food writing was going. Are cookbooks dead? Should we blog? Will the …