Cocktails with Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey From National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day to International Whiskey Day and National Cocktail Day, March is packed with reasons to celebrate with a creative cocktail! May we suggest you try out Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey? Sounds crazy, but it’s delicious on its own or on…
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Naramata Bench’s Aasha Winery
Aasha Wines Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Rose I was so impressed with the bottles, the storytelling in the tasting notes and the gorgeously designed website of Aasha Wines that I couldn’t wait to get my hands on these mystical bottles. There are gorgeous illustrations on the labels, and they are sealed with wax to protect…
Battle of the Breweries H2 Kitchen + Bar
Competition is Brewing at H2 Kitchen + Bar News from H2 Kitchen + Bar – The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver’s smokehouse restaurant, hosts its inaugural ‘Battle of the Breweries’ dinner, on March 22 with two decorated contenders in the BC craft beer scene. Vancouver Island Brewing and Backcountry Brewing will go head-to-head for diners’ votes as…
Cookbooks for Black History Month
Celebrate Black History Month Through Cookbooks Penguin Random House has a wonderful list of Cookbooks to celebrate Black History Month. “Food is an important part of the fabric of our lives, and it’s one way we can connect with people from diverse cultural backgrounds from our own. In celebration of Black History Month, they’ve curated…
Cookbooks – Vegan Chinese Kitchen
The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition: A Cookbook – Hannah Che Author Hannah Che discovered the tradition of Zhai cai, a Chinese cooking technique emphasizing vegetarian cooking using umami-rich ingredients that has its roots in Buddhist temple kitchens. In The Vegan Chinese Kitchen, Che replicates Chinese dishes in a meatless way,…
Vancouver Cocktail Week at L’Abattoir
Dinners and Bar Takeovers at L’Abattoir for Vancouver Cocktail Week Many events have already sold out for Vancouver Cocktail Week, but if you act quickly, you can join L’Abattoir, one of Vancouver’s very best restaurants, complete with a stellar team of front and back house talent for one of two cocktail-paired dinners, a bar takeover…
VCC Foundation Annual Wine and Food Gala
Vancouver Community College (VCC) Foundation is excited to announce the return of Flourish After a two-year pause due to the pandemic, Flourish returns bigger and more delicious than ever — featuring elite wine tastings from Naramata Bench Wineries, local craft beers pairings, food designed and prepared by top local chefs, and music performed by leading…
Our Favourite Meal Kits for Healthy Eating
Meal Kits Help Make our Meals Healthier and More Sustainable When it comes to dinner decisions, we are always overwhelmed with the choices we have when grocery shopping and end up buying too many things, or items in portions that are too large, and we end up with leftovers that don’t always get eaten. Luckily…
Feast of Fortune Charity Gala 2023
Chef Lineup and Gifts of Fortune Announced for Scotiabank’s Feast of Fortune Charity Gala 2023 Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit by Supporting the Future of Health Care The Chinese Restaurant Awards will participate in Scotiabank’s Feast of Fortune Charity Gala at JW Marriott Parq Vancouver on February 11th, 2023. The chefs will create…
Il Centro’s East Van Beer Tasting Event
East Van Beer Tasting – Four Breweries Pour 16 Craft Brews Paired with Appie’s Calling all craft beer lovers! The East Van Beer Tasting event will feature four classic local breweries: Luppolo Brewing, Container Brewing, Powell Brewery, and East Van Brew Company; and provide each guest with an exclusive opportunity to try 16 different beers…
BC Ale Trail Launches Tasting Passports
BC Ale Trail Launches Five Tasting Passports Throughout Metro Vancouver Looking for an excuse to get out and try some great BC craft beer? During February beer lovers can collect stamps at up to sixty-four participating businesses for a chance to win fabulous prize packages along the BC Ale Trail in conjunction with Dine the…
Angel’s Envy Port-Finished Bourbon
Louisville Angel’s Envy Port-Finished Bourbon You might hear a bit more about bourbon this year as we’re heading to Louisville in October for the Les Dames d’Escoffier International conference and there’s research to do ahead of time. In preparation, we’ve been sampling the Louisville-based Angel’s Envy Port Finished Bourbon this month. Angel’s Envy is among…
Crypto Culinary Club
Crypto Culinary Club Announces First Opportunity for Membership Just when we thought crypto was dead, we just received news about the Crypto Culinary Club, a club that uses crypto as your membership token. Modelled on the Iron Chef concept of using unique and secret ingredients, Iron Chef Chairman Mark Dascascos’s son is behind the platform’s…
Bocuse d’Or Team Canada Wins 11th Place
Bocuse d’Or Team Canada wins 11th place at the world’s toughest chef competition After winning silver and their golden ticket to the world finals in France, today, our national culinary athletes to the Bocuse d’Or placed 11th, moving Canada up two places from the 13th position in 2019. Proud of their accomplishments, Chef Samuel Sirois,…
Asian Cookbooks for Lunar New Year
Asian Cookbooks to Expand Your Cooking Repertoire Start the new year with Asian cookbooks that will elevate your cooking skills and expand your recipe repertoire with Thai, Vietnamese, Korean and Taiwanese recipes. Written by Asian authors from all over the world, these cookbooks emphasize the joy of shared meals and gathering with family and loved…
Denmark Wins Bocuse d’Or 2023
Bocuse d’Or Gold to Denmark, Norway Silver, and Hungary Gold On 23rd January 2023, after two days of high-level competition, the victory of Denmark represented by Brian Mark Hansen and his commis Elisabeth Madsen closes the 19th Grand Final of the Bocuse d’Or, thus succeeding the French Davy Tissot, Bocuse d’Or 2021. The team from Norway,…
Vancouver Cocktail Week – The Alchemist magazine
Diageo World Class Canada Final During Vancouver Cocktail Week, March 5 to 11, 2023 After a spectacular inaugural event in 2022, Vancouver Cocktail Week presented by The Alchemist returns for a second round in March 2023. Tickets VCW 2022 featured sixty-five events over five days at some of the city’s most popular cocktail venues. In…
Chinatown BBQ Congee Bar Pop-Up
Fresh Ideas Start Here (FISH) and Top Chef Canada runner-up Deseree Lo launch Congee Bar at Chinatown BBQ on January 30, 2023 On Monday, January 30, 2023, British Columbia’s purveyor of boat-to-table sustainable seafood, Fresh Ideas Start Here (FISH) is launching a special one-day congee bar pop-up with FISH alumnae and Top Chef Canada season…
Cookbooks – The Woks of Life
The Woks of Life by Bill, Kaitlin, Judy, and Sarah Leung This is the story of a family as told through food. Judy, the mom, speaks about traditional Chinese dishes and cultural backstories. Bill, the dad, worked in his family’s Chinese restaurants and will walk you through how to make a glorious Cantonese Roast Duck….
Les Dames d’Escoffier Scholarships
Les Dames d’Escoffier BC Scholarship Applications Now Open Until February 13, 2023 As a past scholarship recipient and the current President of Les Dames d’Escoffier, I encourage you to apply for one of our Les Dames d’Escoffier BC Scholarships and up your skills this year! Effective immediately online applications are open to those who identify…
