I'm an award-winning cookbook author, travel writer and founder of Alberta Food Tours, Inc. Eat Alberta First is my latest cookbook and my work in progress is Faces Places and Plates which will feature beloved chef friends throughout South India. I love to cook, hike, golf, and cycle with my family. How do I savour it all? It's very simple. Each day I meditate and do some yoga practices that keep me balanced and continually heading in the right direction - within. You are very welcome here!
One of my ways of being is to savour my food and savour my life. I can’t do one without the other. I try to balance my love of both. I love honey and bees symbolize for me the universal connection between food and life. The fact that bees are not doing well and that […]
MoreCongratulations to my dear friend Lindsay Lauren Anderson (no relation – sadly) on completing her amazing year – 365 Days of Dining – for Tourism Richmond in Richmond, B.C. Here is a video of her at the beginning of her adventure.
MoreToday on CBC Radio One’s Alberta at Noon I talked about Dirt Craft Natural Building. You can listen to the podcast here. I start at the 45 minute mark. The recipes are here or on the CBC site here. I went into much greater detail about Dirt Craft Natural Building here. I love the video […]
MoreHere are the recipes for my monthly food column on CBC Radio One’s Alberta@Noon. Thanks to my dear friend and dedicated Calgary Food Tours Inc. associate Tilly Sanchez for her beautiful galette recipe and thanks to Dirt Craft Natural Building’s Heather Noakes and Ashley Lubyk for the recipes and photos of their eggplant and flat […]
MoreThis week on CBC Radio One’s Alberta at Noon I’ll be talking about a company called Dirt Craft Natural Building and the courses they give on How to Build a Cob Oven in Alberta and across Western Canada. What is a cob oven and why would you want one? Read on.
MoreI love my friends at Crave Cookies and Cupcakes. Their cupcakes are a great source of joy for me. I’m craving one right now. I can’t get one right now but I remembered this lovely little video and I feel so darn good after watching it I pretty sure I don’t need the cupcake now. […]
MoreMy friend Louise Savoie (Lou Lou) helps me savour my life. She is an artist. My home and life are touched by her work as an oil painter and by the richness of our friendship. I’m excited to announce a show she will be featured in here in Calgary and I want to tell you […]
MoreI’m going to kick off my summer with a fantastic lobster dinner at the 5th Annual Thrill of the Grill. Why don’t you join me? Together we can raise a lot of money for Habitat for Humanity and have a lot of fun at the same time. On Friday, June 21, Calgary-area Delta Hotel chefs […]
MoreTaste Alberta: Chefs help feed eat-local movement with Taste Alberta Tuesdays. Tuesdays are going to taste like Alberta in the month of June. Don’t know what Alberta tastes like? Just go to the restaurants featured in Lisa Monforton’s Taste Alberta article above and you will find out what the taste of this place, Alberta, is. […]
MoreOff the Beaten Palate is a fun TV show that I got to work on in September 2012. I was hired by Travel Alberta to act as scout, guide and production assistant for a TV crew based out of New York and Toronto. We spent a week visiting ranches, farms, restaurants and some of Alberta’s […]
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