Have you started your holiday shopping yet? Me neither. I did make a list and check it twice. The list I’m talking about is my annual article on great gifts for food lovers for Calgary’s City Palate magazine. I came up with 17 gifts, gadgets and goodies for 2016. Click on the link and check it […]
MoreI’ve written about Long Table Dinners for CBC Radio One’s Alberta at Noon. I’ve written about Alberta Long Table Dinners for Calgary’s City Palate magazine. I love them. They’re a joyous occasion. Have you been to one? Now’s your chance. You’ve got about 19 hours left to get tickets here. You can never have too […]
MoreClick this The Local Pantry link to find an article I just wrote for Calgary’s City Palate magazine featuring 50 of my favourite local food and beverage products. Choose these products first and you’ll help grow a strong Alberta and Canadian economy from within. We are blessed with the very best tasting food in the […]
MoreChefly shorts trailer from Ramin Eshraghi Yazdi on Vimeo. Chefly Screen Shots Wednesday, May 7 6:30 p.m. Festival Hall in Inglewood This event qualifies as both a very #CoolThing and a major #ArtInstallation. It promises to be quirky, upbeat and delicious and I’d say it’d be the funnest event this year for those that love […]
MoreDeadly pig virus spurs Alberta Pork to organize farmer meetings. The United States has an epidemic of porcine diarrhea that has killed approximately three million piglets and cost that country $240 million dollars. I just finished reading this news in the article above by Amanda Stephenson. Stephenson’s piece also reports that Ontario has just seen […]
MoreStumped for gift ideas for the food lovers on your list? Check out the 20 ideas I wrote about for Calgary’s City Palate magazine here. UnwrapThis Enjoy, and if you see something you like, just “fast forward” it to your own personal Santa. Happy Holidays and remember to Savour it All. Cheers, Karen
MoreSunday, August 11, 2013 was the kind of Alberta summer day one dreams about. We have big sky in Alberta. When our big sky is nothing but blue as far as the eye can see and there is not a breath of wind and I have a farm tour booked for my company Calgary Food […]
MoreI’ve been writing for Calgary’s City Palate magazine since 2007. I still have a copy of the first cheque the publisher, Gail Norton, sent me on my bulletin board. It was the first time I ever got paid for food or travel writing. That cheque is doubly meaningful and sweet to me because it was […]
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