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!
Calgary Food Tours | Visit Calgary. Thanks to Tourism Calgary for featuring my company Calgary Food Tours Inc. on their new Culinary Tourism feature page. So many people look for food to enrich their travel. Exploring a city or country’s food is a great way to really get inside a culture and understand it. Food […]
MoreThanks to my friends Cindy Lazarenko and Geoff Lilge for featuring me and my favourite kitchen items on their beautiful @Onourtable design blog. You can read that post here. I care for great design. It makes our lives so much better. I had fun writing for On Our Table. It was a thought-provoking exercise and […]
MoreI’m so happy to share this lovely blog about the tours my company Calgary Food Tours Inc is doing at The Calgary Farmer’s Market. I am fortunate to have lots of talented chef friends and two of my favourites, Pierre Lamielle and Judy Wood agreed to work with me and lead the weekend tours. Check […]
MoreI’ve been writing for Calgary’s City Palate magazine since 2007. I still have a copy of the first cheque the publisher, Gail Norton, sent me on my bulletin board. It was the first time I ever got paid for food or travel writing. That cheque is doubly meaningful and sweet to me because it was […]
MoreCulinary Tourism and my trip to the 2013 Okanagan Food and Wine Writers Workshop (@OKFWWWorkshop) in Kelowna, British Columbia were the topics of my most recent food column on CBC Radio One’s Alberta at Noon . You can catch that podcast here. My column starts at the 17:53 mark in the show. Albertans (and people […]
MoreWant to be a Cheese Maker? Not all of us are going to become artisan cheese makers like the great Alberta cheesemakers I wrote about here. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get in on the fun. Ella Kinloch, was a high school teacher who dreamed of making cheese. She did an extensive internship in […]
MoreTaste Alberta: Two Alberta cheesemakers in Canadian Cheese Grand Prix finals. The Taste Alberta feature above by Lisa Montorton celebrates the fact that two Alberta cheese makers, Sylvan Star and Latin Cheese Co., have both made the Canadian Grand Prix finals. When I read this piece it reminded me that I did a lot of […]
MoreTaste Alberta: Close-to-home-grown goodness. I like to read Taste Alberta in the Calgary Herald every Wednesday. The focus is on Alberta food producers and processors and today writer Lisa Monforton gave several tips for getting more regionally produced foods on your plate. I always learn something from Monforton. Because I don’t watch TV, I didn’t […]
MoreTomorrow night I’m going to Calgary’s River Cafe to have a seven course beautifully sequenced Kaiseki sushi meal prepared by Canada’s (possibly North America’s) most accomplished Sushi master chef. His name is Hidekazu Tojo and he is owner of Tojo’s Restaurant in Vancouver. Here’s my colleague John Gilchrist’s description of the only other time Tojo […]
MoreI’m really proud of my friend and former neighbour Susan Sohn. She is community personified. She lives and breathes it. She is a bright bubbly bombshell who loves people so much she can be kind and patient with everyone. Best of all though she’s a ton of fun and she really wants her life to […]
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