Karen Anderson
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!
Making Irish Soda Bread with the McElligotts
If time with friends is a treasure then time with friends who have very little time is like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. This is how it felt to spend an afternoon learning to make Irish Soda Bread with my dear friend Donna McElligott and her mother. Donna’s worked […]
MoreSavour food Savour Life – Cool things #5 – @TakeThemAMeal
I grew up in a town of 1500 people in a close-knit Maritime community. When someone died, had a baby, or was convalescing my mother, grandmothers and friends took loving care of them by cooking for them and dropping things by. A little visit ensued. Support and love were shared. Healing happened. Flash forward to […]
MoreSavour life – Cool things #4 – @TEDxyyc
Inspirational speakers on tap for fourth annual TEDx event in Calgary. I love TED talks. Their mantra is “Ideas worth sharing” and though they originally focused on the fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design they have branched out to include just about any good idea. We humans have so many amazing ideas that TED will […]
MoreSavour Food – Calgary Co-ops could face challenges going cage-free, industry warns
Co-ops could face challenges going cage-free, industry warns. Things, they are a changing. The proposed changes outlined in this article from today’s Calgary Herald gives me hope for a better food production system in Alberta. Slowly but surely it can happen. The headline in the above article “warns” that it will take time and be […]
MoreSavour food Savour life – Growing a Food Forest
Growing a Food Forest. Amen for the writing of Jacquie Moore in The Calgary Herald’s Swerve Magazine today (click on the link above). I hope you will take a few moments to read her exemplary piece on the growing (pun intended – groan if you must) permaculture movement. If you look through some of my […]
MoreSavour Life – because it comes with the ultimate deadline
In the last few weeks I have had a lot of deadlines. They’ve kept me busy working when I’ve not been playing with my family and enjoying the bevy of engaging social events we’ve had lately. It’s been a demanding but fun time. In the last few months a dear friend was given the ultimate […]
MoreSavour Food – Start some seedlings or start a farm
Here’s the CBC Radio One Alberta @ Noon podcast from Thursday, March 7 when I talked about ideas to help you grow your own food – everything from starting your own seeds to starting your own farm. I’m at the 12.22 mark in the podcast. Karen’s Monthly Food Column on Alberta @ Noon – Ways […]
MoreSavour Life – Cool thing #2 – How great it is to be Canadian – Strombo | Astronaut Chris Hadfield & Barenaked Ladies Ed Robertson’s Song From Space Premieres Across Canada
Strombo | Astronaut Chris Hadfield & Barenaked Ladies Ed Robertson's Song From Space Premieres Across Canada. Cool thing #2 This song pretty much sums it up for me. I love to travel. I love to see the world, but as Chris Hadfield and Ed Robertson sing in this beautiful history-making song that they co-wrote (the […]
MoreSavour Food – Tasty Apple Chicken Turnover – Just in time for Easter Brunch
Tasty Apple Chicken Turnover Notes to the Cook I developed this recipe because I knew I was going to talk about Joel Salatin’s Farming Workshops on CBC Radio and I thought this would be the perfect way to use Pastured Poultry – one of Salatin’s topics for his workshops. Sunshine Organic Farm and Sunworks Farm […]
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