Food
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Prairie Bistro Review
Whenever I hear a restaurant is using locally sourced products, I get a little excited. So when Twitter started buzzing with what was going on at the Prairie Bistro in the new Enjoy Centre in St. Albert--a new project by the well-known Hole family of Hole's Greenhouse...
5th Annual Northern Food Night: Country Food in the Big City
For those people who attended our 5th Northern Food Night, THANK YOU! If it was your first time, congratulations...you can now cross off "eating whale blubber and raw musk ox" from your culinary bucket list. Whale Bacon and Eggs Char Carpaccio with Scotch Bonnet Dip...
Slow Food Edmonton’s Northern Food Night…don’t miss it!
There are only a few days left until our 5th Northern Food Night this Saturday, April 16th in the banquet room beside Bistro La Persaud at La Cite Francophone in Edmonton. The staff at the Bistro have been busy slicing and dicing in preparation for the big event. The...
A Night at NAIT with Blair Lebsack and Mara Jernigan
On Wednesday, April 6th, a handful of Edmonton's Slow Food members attended a local food affair arranged by Blair Lebsack. The event was held to invite Slow Food Canada's President, Mara Jernigan, to partake of a Black Box affair on her whirlwind tour across the...
Queen of Tarts: Edmonton Restaurant Review
These are good times to be a foodie in E-Town. Seems lately you can’t walk a block without running into a great food place. Talk about an omnivore's dilemma! Adding to this dilemma is Linda Kearney, long-known to Edmontonians as The Queen of Tarts, and who, during the...
Arviat, Nunavut: In Search of Tuktu, Muktaq and the Ahiarmiut
Before we left for Arviat, Nunavut, I took stock of the inventory in our freezer: umingmak (musk ox), tuktu (caribou), muktaq (whale blubber): three kinds - beluga, narwhal and bowhead; (We had deep-fried beluga blubber in Toronto and it was amazing!) and then there...
Yak Meat, Wine and Candlelight – How to Celebrate Earth Hour
I read in the Journal yesterday that energy consumption in Edmonton actually increased during Earth Hour on Saturday. I'm happy to say we had nothing to do with it! No sir, our dinner guests that arrived for our Yak Fest were kept completely in the dark for the entire...
Northern Food Night 2011 – An Arctic Culinary Adventure
For those of you who have been anxiously awaiting the 5th Annual Northern Food Night, wait no longer; the date has been chosen (April 16th, 2011), tickets are for sale online at Slow Food Edmonton's website, and you better get 'em quick because this NFN is going to be...
Niche – Edmonton Restaurant Review
There's something about the KISS method of cooking that I love. Keep it simple, use quality ingredients, throw in the right dose of talent and you've got a recipe for success. Nathan Saurette, in his tiny little kitchen at Niche, is KISS-ing big time. This dark and...