Travel Through Food: Ireland

Travel Through Food: Ireland

Ireland remains, to this day, one of my favourite places to have visited. Along with its storied history and jaw-dropping scenery, the food and drink culture absolutely blew my mind. This morning, on CBC Edmonton A.M., I spoke with Tara McCarthy about my experience...
Travel Through Food: Vietnam

Travel Through Food: Vietnam

My next few segments on CBC Edmonton (radio) are going to be about travelling through food. If you are like me, and a million other people, you might be getting a little tired of cooking the same ol’ same ol, day after day, week after week. In an effort to...
Lakeside Farmstead Cheese, Part II

Lakeside Farmstead Cheese, Part II

A year ago, I wrote a blogpost about having tasted the cheese that Ian Treuer was making at Lakeside Farmstead. You can read about it here, but in essence: I came, I ate, I loved (even though the cheese was young and being presented as a trial run). I knew it had...
Mac Memories (Fairmont Hotel MacDonald)

Mac Memories (Fairmont Hotel MacDonald)

On the day I stopped by the Hotel MacDonald to pick up a some of Chef Jiju Paul’s new Confederation Lounge offerings, a handful of Fairmont members stood at their curbside post, safely distanced and at the ready. We talked through our masks and over one another...
Edmonton 2020: The Year in Food

Edmonton 2020: The Year in Food

2020, yeesh. What a year that was. If you missed my Year in Food for Eat North on its publication date (December 30th), all you have to do is click this link to read it now. Let’s hope I have more cheerful news when I write the 2021 Year in Food. Fingers...