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!
If you love food ENOUGH, you might like to grow some of your own. If you are growing some of your own food, you’ll likely want to grow more and grow smarter, not harder. If you grow food for a living (a.k.a. FARM – the verb), you will ALWAYS look for better ways to do […]
MoreThis is an article I wrote for City Palate Magazine last year and I’m sharing it here because I’m writing a lot about gardening and farming this week in preparation for my Alberta at Noon column on CBC Radio One this Thursday. The information about this “urban agriculture” movement, for those of you interested in […]
MoreI am always out and about. It’s part of my job to explore Calgary, Alberta, Canada and the world’s food scene. I constantly meet exciting people and see the fun things they are doing and the delicious ingredients they are working with. I realized this week that I am constantly saying, “That’s so cool”. The […]
MoreThis is funny. And it’s a great ingredient too. It’s mustard; Grey Poupon, in this instance. When I have a great ingredient I am always inspired to cook. In fact that is usually the genesis of all my cooking. Shopping for great ingredients is where it all begins for me. I have enough cooking know-how […]
MoreThanks to my friend Marianne for sending me this video by Shane Koyczan called To This Day. It’s about recognizing that bullying exists, bullying hurts and bullying takes healing and strength to recover from. Watching this video has inspired me to write about my beliefs in the importance of inner beauty and kindness.
MoreNotes on Joy What makes you joyous? It’s a good thing to think about because sometimes if you know what causes your joy wellspring to bubble up from where you are grounded then you can do things to sway the odds of that happening more often. I started thinking of what brings me joy and […]
MoreHere’s my Alberta @ Noon podcast about Honey and Beekeeping in Alberta from today. I’m at the 13.50 mark. Holly and I had a lot of fun talking about honey and Valentine’s and you’ll never guess what? Carl Honoré, author of The Slow Fix:Solve Problems, Work Smarter and Live Better was in the green room […]
MoreWhere are the honey bees It’s almost Valentine’s Day and I love my honey and I love honey. This year I decided to bake my honey a honey-baked treat. And that got me thinking more and more about honey and where it comes from and what I really know about it anyway? I decided to […]
MoreCheck out this CBC Alberta @ Noon podcast where I talked about Sustainable Seafood with host Holly Preston (I’m at the 13 minute mark): http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?clipid=2328725716&position=822330&site=cbc.news.ca Here are the recipes I posted on the CBC Alberta @ Noon website today. Five One-Liner Fish Recipes that will have you hooked 1. For Salmon fillets – Make Asian Zip Salmon […]
More“The work of the Marine Stewardship Council” I came across this video from the Marine Stewardship Council just now which outlines a positive change for the status of fisheries on our blue planet. We know that food has been industrialized and treated as a commodity. It is becoming very apparent that while that model works […]
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