I love these videos that Travel Alberta makes. They remind me of what I love most about living in Alberta – time in nature. Don’t get me wrong. I’m loving life in my city this week. I’m experiencing all the hustle and bustle of the Calgary Stampede this week. I’m really proud of the hospitality […]
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.
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 […]
MoreCalgary 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 […]
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 […]
MoreI love Indian food and culture so much I’m going to have to figure out how to get to Vancouver this summer to attend the Indian Summer Festival. It is an annual event celebrating arts, ideas and diversity and it connects Vancouver and South Asia via 10 days of music, literature, film, well-being, dance, cuisine […]
MoreEvery artist needs a muse. For the many artistically gifted chefs that have settled in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia it is the quality of the area’s produce that is the muse that has drawn them to this spectacular setting. That quality produce comes from food and wine growers who work with the land […]
MoreThis year’s Okanagan Food and Wine Writer’s Workshop is April 28 to May 1, 2013 in Kelowna, British Columbia. You can register here. The workshop is open to all food and wine writers – newbie to thoroughly nuanced. I attended last year for the first time and got a lot out of it. I’m going […]
MoreBy Karen Anderson, Katherine Donaghy and Megan Marshall The name of my blog is Savour Food Savour Life. I believe one of the best ways to savour both food and life is via travel. Travel affords the time to slow down and actually savour your surroundings, your food and consequently, your life. Incidentally, travel has also been shown […]
MoreGuinea 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 […]
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