by Twyla Campbell | Jun 17, 2016 | Restaurant Review
A restaurant offering farm-to-fork food is one thing; naming a restaurant Farm to Fork, is quite another. There will be no room for shortcuts; if there is even a sniff of a suggestion that ingredients are coming from, say, GFS, and not a local farmer, the restaurant...
by Twyla Campbell | Jul 20, 2015 | Restaurant Review
I once asked a server in Italy if the pork they were serving came from a local farm. Although I couldn’t translate his words, his flaring nostrils and scrunched eyebrows said, “Are you nuts?” It was the same look I got from a server in Portland when...
by Twyla Campbell | Apr 9, 2013 | Restaurant Review
Fine food establishments The Elm Cafe and Cibo Bistro in Edmonton’s Oliver neighbourhood have been joined by another like-minded establishment, Bistro Saisons. And by like-minded, I mean headed by chef-owners who care about supporting local producers by sourcing...