A true West Coast sign that spring has arrived: it’s finally halibut season! To celebrate, Save On Foods at Park and Tilford is hosting popular seafood chef Karen Barnaby for A Taste of Park and Tilford on Saturday March 31, 2012 from noon to 5pm.

Celebrating the local bounty of foods from North Vancouver and the surrounding areas, the event will include over 50 tasting stations throughout the store with 3 large demo stations. Karen will be on hand to demo a recipe from her book Halibut: The Cookbook.

Every spring Pacific halibut head back to the shallower waters of the BC coast in search of food. This coincides with the opening of the halibut-fishing season, which this year began on March 17th. Known for its elegant texture and sweet subtle flavour Pacific halibut is one of the most versatile fish for home cooking.

Karen will be demoing her Halibut and “Chips” recipe, which is featured in her book Halibut: The Cookbook and on The Fish House menu. The dish highlights halibut with accessible and local ingredients.

Karen Barnaby has been the executive chef at the acclaimed Fish House in Stanley Park since 1995.  Known for her words almost as much as her food, Karen is a regular food columnist for the Vancouver Sun and has penned many cookbooks including Pacific Passions, Screamingly Good Food, The Passionate Cook, The Low-Carb Gourmet and applied her seafood knowledge as the editor and feature contributor for Halibut: The Cookbook and Shellfish: The Cookbook.