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Vines and Brines
Top Table Restaurant Group, love child of Jack Evrensal, has long been known for its high-end gastronomic offerings, including Araxi in Whistler, and Blue Water Café, West and Cin Cin in Vancouver. Recently, the four restaurants’ wine directors—Araxi’s Samantha Rahn, Blue Water Cafe’s Andrea Vescovi, ...
Artisan Vinegar in the Okanagan
Vinegar -one of the most important discoveries in food history dating back to ancient times and used around the world by almost every nationality, is often ignored and given little recognition, with the exception of Italy’s Balsamic Vinegar. But things are beginning to change. Vinegar now has ...
Where to Find Artisan Ice Cream and Gelato in Victoria
Warmer weather has finally arrived, and it is no longer only the kids craving cold desserts. If you’ve had a hankering for something sweet, creamy and chilly, but want to avoid the busy tourist areas, look no further. Here’s the official EAT Summer Treat List. ...
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Comox Valley Launches 30-Day Local Food Challenge
June 25, 2011 (Courtenay, B.C.) – The Comox Valley 30-Day Local Food Challenge kicks off from 9 a.m. to Noon at the Comox Valley Farmer’s Market this Saturday as they begin live registration and passport distribution for what has become one of the largest month-long ...
Exceptional Eats! Reader’ Choice Awards 2011
You voted for your favourites—the best places to eat, dine, and shop for food and wine on Vancouver Island—and here are your results to all thirty-two questions. Taken together, they make a delicious snapshot of a moment in our culinary times. There are no losers; we ...
Health and Honeybees: A Complex Connection
The air around us was specked black with bees as we stood in the lot behind Babe’s Honey Farm and watched an apiarist lift honeycomb frames from a box hive. Each frame crawled and dripped with calm yet industrious honeybees, (while my inner child, who’d once been stung ...
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Pedigree Pigs
photo: Tom Henry with Berkshire Pig credit: Gary Hynes For an eating adventure, nothing can beat the taste of heritage pigs raised with love and fed their own proper diet. A heritage pig is a treasured heirloom – desirable and unique for its tender upbringing, ...
San Mai Stainless Damascus to be made in BC
San Mai Stainless Damascus This is an update to the article “Anatomy of a Knife” that appears in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of EAT Magazine. Cosmo Knives is now making San Mai Stainless Damascus knives and Seth Cosmo Burton maybe the only person in the ...
Harry Burton of Apple Luscious Orchard
In a world where, at most grocery stores, the same four or five varieties of apples greet us, day in, day out, every day of the year, Harry Burton is without question, a food hero. Champion of the forgotten fruit, his three acre orchard boasts ...
