Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Calls for A Cookbook Celebration Try out new versions of your favourite recipes from these cookbooks by some of the best chefs out there for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and all year round! And if you’re still craving more dishes, check out Brandon Jew’s Lunar New Year recipe perfect…
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Les Dames d’Escoffier’s New Board
Les Dames d’Escoffier, British Columbia Chapter Appoints New Board for 30th Anniversary Year Here’s some news about an organization I am so proud to work with. Look forward to hearing about some great fundraising events for 2023! Les Dames d’Escoffier British Columbia Chapter (LDBC) is delighted to introduce its new board president, Cassandra Anderton, and the…
Pastel Easter Doughnuts
Pastel Easter Doughnuts Courtesy of BakeGood.ca These Pastel Easter Doughnuts from BakeGood.ca combine some of the most fun parts of the spring holiday, including delicious treats, bright pastel colours and everyone’s favourite candy-coated chocolate eggs. More recipes INGREDIENTS Doughnuts: 1/3 cup milk 1/3 cup water 1 (2-1/4 tsp.) envelope Fleischmann’s® Traditional Yeast 2 to 3…
Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns for Easter When I was younger Hot Cross Buns were not my favourite. We bought some supermarket brands that were inevitably stale and had those pieces of coloured candied cherries that come in the equally horrid Christmas Cake, very unappealing. Then there was the margarine!!!! Don’t get me wrong, some amazing things…
Purdys Easter Chocolates
Purdys Has Something for Every Bunny for Easter Sorry, I couldn’t help it with the pun, because Easter is always such a happy holiday for me. When we were younger the anticipation of Easter Egg Hunts and then finding eggs months later, usually melted, because my mom and dad were such good egg hiders, the…
KitchenAid Colour of the Year Hibiscus
KitchenAid Celebrates Hibiscus with Spring Recipes I’m a KitchenAid fanatic, I have two, one tiny one and one larger, but they’re not Hibiscus colour and now I am envious! However, I can whip up some recipes that will at least pay homage to the colour including a Mocktail, Galette and Chicken Wings. Looking for a…
The Artful Pie Project by Denise Marchessault and Deb Garlick
The Artful of Pie by Denise Marchessault In honour of pie day, March 14 3.14, we salute the Queen of Pie, Denise Marchessault, and her newest cookbook The Artful Pie Project, with Deb Garlick. Denise is a fellow member of Les Dames d’Escoffier British Columbia and has been an integral part of our scholarship committee…
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,…
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…
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,…
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….
Fresh Prep and Anh and Chi Collab
Fresh Prep launches a limited-edition collaboration with Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurant Anh and Chi to celebrate Lunar New Year We have Fresh Prep Meal Kits delivered weekly as they solve what to have for dinner and I just added the Lemongrass Chicken to the January 25th order as January 18th is already sold out. Act…
The Lazy Gourmet Joins Compass Group Canada
The Lazy Gourmet team, founded by Canadian female culinary trailblazer Susan Mendelson, joins Compass Group Canada Compass Group Canada is the nation’s leading food service provider. The historic deal will see The Lazy Gourmet and its entire team of 130, join the food service leader to further the locally run business’ footprint in Metro Vancouver…
The Best Cookbooks of 2022
Cookbooks You Need on Your Shelf from the Best Cookbooks of 2022 How does one proclaim that these are the best cookbooks of 2022, or even try to compete with that title in an SEO search without some absurd keywords that cater to the search engines and not necessarily the people reading this article? I…
Cheese4Change Holiday Recipes
Junior Chef Showdown Finalist Victor Chow’s Cheese4Change Recipes Victor Chow was a finalist in Junior Chef Showdown Cheese4Change and wowed the judges with his gourmet dishes. Now he’s created a stunning three-course holiday meal with a new focus: sustainability. More recipes Victor knows waste is at an all-time high this time of year, so he was…
Easy Appetizers with President’s Choice
President’s Choice Appy’s Make Holiday Entertaining a Breeze Around the holidays, we spend a lot of time in the kitchen. This year we’re headed over to Qualicum to visit Michael’s parents and then Kelowna to visit mine, and there will be siblings, nieces, nephews, and other family friends dropping by. Snacks will be needed and…
Organic Ocean Seasonal Offerings
Organic Ocean Offers Seafood Celebration Solutions This Holiday Season Organic Ocean – British Columbia’s award-winning purveyors of sustainable seafood have some exceptional bundles for the 2022 holiday season. Why not make nutritious, delicious, ocean-friendly seafood a part of your holiday celebrations and gift-giving? Organic Ocean Gift Card & Cookbook Bundle Give the gift of the…
