Cuisine Canada Scene

Member Q&A: Dana Ewart

Dana Ewart attended the prestigious Stratford Chef’s School in Ontario, where she completed her chef’s training with honours as well as an extensive pastry training program. After completing her formal education, Dana worked as the head of pastry and garde manger at the highly-regarded Avalon Restaurant in Toronto and under Normand Laprise at Toque! in [...]

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 [...]

Postcards from Summer Camp

For many children summer camp meant hiking, canoeing, scraped knees and adventures. The postcards home were scribbled out of guilt and only when rained forced us indoors . But the Northwest Culinary Academy of Vancouver’s Summer Camp sends kids into the kitchen not the woods — rain or shine. Under the tutelage of Chef Barbara [...]

Member Profile — Judith Lane

Judith Lane is a Vancouver-based wine, food, and travel writer who contributes regularly to the Georgia Straight, Taste, BC Restaurant News, Flavours, Vines, and gremolata.com who will go almost anywhere for a good story and a glass of wine. She’s also an in-demand judge for wine, food, and cocktail competitions, including the several at the [...]

Member Profile — Jennifer Cockrall-King

Jennifer Cockrall-King splits her time between Edmonton, Alberta, and Naramata, BC in the Okanagan where she eats, drinks, writes and teaches food writing courses. Her articles have appeared in Canadian Geographic, Maclean’s, the National Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Slow Canada, Homemaker’s and on CBC Radio among others. She posts them on-line at her website, when she [...]

Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival

The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival, March 23 to 29, 2009, is a must for any wine (and food) lover. It’s been going for 31 years and is among the top three wine festivals in North America. Part of what makes it special is that a winery principal must be in the Festival Tasting Room [...]

Does no trans fat mean no business?

Come October 2009, British Columbia restaurants will be trans-fat-free thanks to provincial legislation. As a consumer, I avoid trans fats and would be happy to know they can’t creep onto my plate when I dine out. But as a restaurateur, how do you feel? Were you ahead of the curve on this ban or do [...]