Savour It All

March 23, 2017 · 2:00 am

Micro brewing in Alberta is catching up with the North American macro-trend

Wayne Sheridan, Situation Brewing, Edmonton Food Tours, Alberta Food Tours, Inc.

Wayne Sheridan, owner of Situation Brewing – photo credit – Karen Anderson

By the end of 2017 Alberta will have close to 60 microbreweries. That’s a cool thing (no. 51 on this blog) because in 2013 there were only 14. Here’s a little background on why local kegs are increasingly what’s on tap at your favourite watering hole. Continue reading →

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Tagged as Alberta Barley, Alberta Beer Scene, Alberta Culinary Tourism Alliance, Alberta Food Tours, brewpubs, Calgary Brewery Tours, craft beer, Edmonton Food Tours, micro breweries, mircro brewing, Situation Brewing, Wayne Sheridan

March 5, 2017 · 10:11 pm

Talking about Alberta’s signature foods on Global Calgary

Talking about Alberta’s signature foods – bison, beef, honey, Red Fife Wheat, canola, Saskatoon berries and root vegetables – is a great way to start any day for me.

Here I am on Global TV Calgary doing just that.

Watch the segment, get a super easy recipe for an Alberta Grizzly Gold appetizer and come on out and join one of the 15 talented food tour guides that lead our Alberta Food Tours in Calgary, Canmore and Edmonton during our 2017 season. It’s a great way to savour it all – Alberta-style.

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Tagged as Alberta beef, Alberta Bison, Alberta Culinary, Alberta Food Tours Inc., Alberta's signature foods, Analog Coffee, Calgary Food Tours, Canmore Food Tours, Edmonton Food Tours, food tourism, food tours, Food TV, Global Calgary, honey, J. Webb Wine Merchants, Karen Anderson, Organic Canola, Red Fife Wheat, root vegetables, Saskatoon berries, Sylvan Star, The Calgary Farmers' Market, The Cherry Pit, Yum Bakery

February 28, 2017 · 7:05 am

Eating #India with @AlbertaFoodTour – a @CityPalate article by Catherine Van Brunschot

Alberta Food Tours annual cuisine and culture trips to India with Karen Anderson

Cooking with Sumeet Nair in New Delhi – photo credit – Karen Anderson

Huge thanks to writer Catherine Van Brunschot for the City Palate magazine piece she wrote about the 2014 cuisine and culture trip to India I organized. I’ve been leading these tours with my company Alberta Food Tours and our business partner Indus Travels since 2012.

Catherine’s a writer’s writer. She quietly observes, scribbles notes and jots details. Her camera is always close at hand. She’s able to capture a moment and it’s feeling to share a sense of the traveller’s journey. I hope you enjoy reading her piece from the source: Eating India with Alberta Food Tours

I’m pleased to report that my 2017 trip to India is sold out and that Catherine is returning. When you get to the end of her article, you’ll see I’ve shared with you the answer to the question she poses.

For my 2018 trip to India we’ll return to some places I love – Delhi, Agra, Udaipur, Jodhpur and Jaipur – and also venture to a place I’m longing to visit – Kolkata. Please comment below if you’d like more information about that trip and I’ll be happy to email you an itinerary.

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Tagged as Alberta Food Tours Inc., Catherine Van Brunschot, city palate, cuisine and culture trips, food tours in India, India, Indus Travels, Karen Anderson

February 19, 2017 · 5:27 am

#FEASTthebook – a great way to #eatCanada150 and @feast_on upcoming book tour dates

Dana Vanveller and Lindsay Anderson - authors of FEAST - savour it all blog by Karen Anderson

Dana Vanveller and Lindsay Anderson – photo courtesy of the subjects

Four years in the making and it’s almost here! FEAST: recipes and stories from a Canadian road trip is the perfect way for Canadian food lovers to celebrate our country’s sesquicentennial 150th birthday. No longer will you be stumped when someone asks you “What is Canadian food?”

Turns out the answer is as diverse as our country and often as quirky as our Canadian sense of humour. Authors Lindsay Anderson (no relation – rats!) and Dana Vanveller spent five months touring all 10 provinces and three territories in their tiny Yaris during the summer of 2013. They blogged their hearts out at Edible Road Trip and won Saveur magazine’s Best Travel Blog award for their efforts. They captured the stories of our people and places and they shared the joy of eating the food that came with each day’s adventure. Now they are sharing the recipes that go with the stories they served up.

Next week, these fresh voices begin travelling Canada again and it’s your chance to meet them and get a copy of what will surely become an iconic Canadian book. Tour dates, recipes and a chance for a bonus gift from the authors follows. Continue reading →

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Tagged as #eatCanada150, #exploreCanada, #Feastthebook, @feast_on, Canadian cookbooks, Canadian Travel, cookbook, Dana Vanveller, Edible Road Trip, iconicCanada, Lindsay Anderson

February 11, 2017 · 6:15 am

#ArtInstallation No. 22 – @michaelkiwanuka – Love and Hate

Sometimes a record, a song, a voice, just creep into your soul. Michael Kiwanuka’s album and single both entitled Love and Hate are filled with enough sorrow to reach me there.

The Guardian’s review of the album spoke of authenticity. I hear the authentic sorrow for the deep contrast of how far we are from the dream of how we could be. This is an artist rising to the challenge of sharing his feelings in a time when we need a reminder of the common thread holding us together.

Surely that thread is our humanity. Though masked in an infinite expression of genetic code that unseen oneness exists. If our our every act is guided by what is humane, no one will take us down, no one will break us down. Choosing what’s humane, that is the something wonderful Kiwanuka is asking for, I believe. The lyrics follow.

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Tagged as art installation, commentary, humaneness, humanity, Michael Kiwanuka, music

February 5, 2017 · 10:10 pm

Chef Jinhee Lee – @Geenie52 – wins Gold at Canadian Culinary Championships #CCC2017

#CCC2017 - Jinhee Lee - Gold medal plates - Savour it All

Chef Jinhee Lee of Calgary (Gold) with Chef Eric Hanson of Edmonton (Bronze) and Chef Joe Thottungal of Ottawa (Silver) – photo courtesy of #CCC2017

I am thrilled for my friend chef Jinhee Lee. She just won the Gold Medal at Gold Medal Plates – the Canadian Culinary Championships.

I’ve known Jinhee a few years now. She was Executive Chef at Raw Bar by Duncan Ly at The Hotel Arts in Calgary and has moved with chef Ly to be his Executive Chef at the first restaurant where he is chef/owner. Continue reading →

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Tagged as @eatforeign, calgary, calgary chefs, Calgary's Best Restaurants, Canada's best restaurants, Canadian Culinary Championships, chef Duncan Ly, chef Eric Hansen, chef Jinhee Lee, chef Joe Thottungal, chef Michel Nop, Foreign Concept Restaurant, Gold Medal Plates