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!
Savour food – Soup…and what it means to me
Today is a special day for me because I’m going to be “guest chef” for Soup Sisters. I’ll help organize 24 people to make four kinds of soup. We also package and label it for delivery to The Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter. The soups we make today will serve as the lunch program for the […]
MoreSavour food – The Autumn “Turkey” Tootle Farm Tour – shopping for Thanksgiving dinner at the source
This is the third time we’ve done this particular City Palate farm Tootle tour and it always resonates with people. They start out curious about where the food for their Canadian Thanksgiving dinner is coming from and they end up grateful to our local farmers for all that goes into growing their food. This year […]
MoreSavour food – The City Palate Summer Tootle to Southern Alberta Farms
Saturday, August 20th was a big Alberta blue sky day with not a breath of wind to disturb it. A perfect day to take a bus load of city folk out to meet farm folk. Our first stop was http://www.aspencrossing.com where owners Donna Biggar and Jason Thornhill showed us their Pullman Dining Car, kitchen garden, […]
MoreSavour food – Green Tomatoes got you in a pickle?
I’m going to dedicate this post to longtime clients Candy and Lucia who love to go on my farm tours and who love to garden and cook. I recently ran into them at Slow Food Calgary’s Feast of Fields and learned that due to a very slow start to our high altitude summer they have […]
MoreSavour food – The 2011 City Palate Magazine Spring Tootle
Tootling according to Webster’s dictionary refers to the practice of “proceeding in a leisurely way”. City Palate magazine has sponsored “Foodie Tootles” to local farms around Calgary for 13 years. I used to help my friend Dee Hobsbawn-Smith run these and last year when she moved to Saskatchewan I took on the task of keeping […]
MoreSavour life – The Joy of Movement – how anyone can do a triathlon
Here’s an article I wrote for IMPACT magazine online a few years ago. I’m sharing it now because I am currently training for my first Olympic distance triathlon. I’m doing the Peach City Tri in Penticton on July 17, 2011. I am really looking forward to it but that has been a real journey from […]
MoreSavour it All – Finding Joy after Grief
Angel things By Karen Anderson Because of Ryan (March 18 – 20, 1996) Originally posted in 2011. Updated March, 2014 – because he would have been 18 on the 18th of this year. A golden birthday…not forgotten. My son is an angel. I knew it the second I laid eyes on him. His energy was […]
MoreSavour food – Recipes are for Sharing – here’s one from my friends at Succulent Paris
Guinea Fowl with Hazelnuts Whenever I am in Paris I spend a day with my friends at Succulent Paris because they live up to their name and I care for that. Notes to the cook This is a medieval recipe recovered by a food historian friend of my friends Aurélie Mahoudeau and Marion Willard who […]
MoreSavour food – Savour life – Joy in the Journey
Greetings to all of you who are looking to Savour your food and most importantly, savour your life. I am a joyful person and strive for balance and happiness in each day I am blessed to be on Earth. I have been in the fortunate position to follow my passions all my life. I was a […]
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