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Food News: Duchess Bakery and Giselle Courteau launch a new cookbook and location this month and I’ve got a preview recipe for you
“Baking is, after all, meant to be shared.” This quote comes from Giselle Courteau in the book Food Artisans of Alberta. Along with her business partners, Jacob Pelletier and Garner Beggs, Courteau has been sharing world class baking for 10 years at Duchess Bake Shop in Edmonton’s Westmount neighbourhood. The trio also self-published an eponymous […]
MoreCelebrating Food Day Canada 2019 and the bounty of Alberta this August
Food Day Canada is one of my favourite days of the year. It’s always held on the Saturday of the August long weekend and it’s a time to celebrate the height of our country’s growing season and the abundance of local produce available. This Saturday, August 3, I’ll be celebrating Food Day Canada a few […]
MoreGarden Greens with an Alberta Vinaigrette – from Food Artisans of Alberta
So often in Canada, we use imported ingredients for our daily cooking. This recipe takes a different approach. It uses a classic, imported French technique for a vinaigrette and and highlights some of Alberta’s signature ingredients to make our local – over global – flavours shine. Now that the greens are flourishing in the garden, […]
MoreThe Prairie Farm Project – a dinner by Food Artisans of Alberta: Redtail Farms and friends
Holy collaboration – this makes my heart sing. This is all about three young farming family in South Eastern Alberta doing what they do best and inviting you all out to enjoy a meal and learn more about them and how they raise the food they grow. Here’s what The Prairie Farm Project is all […]
MoreTalking Food Travel and Food Artisans of Alberta on CBC Radio’s Alberta at Noon
People spend 25 per cent or more of their travel budget on food. We need to eat three meals a day and thanks to the influence of TV chefs like the late, great Anthony Bourdain, we want them to be authentically local. That means the food should be made with recipes that are historically relevant […]
MoreFood Artisans of Alberta
Today begins an exciting week. After about two years of research, travel, photography, writing, editing and editing some more, the book I co-authored with my friend Matilda (Tilly) Sanchez-Turri, Food Artisans of Alberta, is for real and is starting to hit the shelves of bookstores, cafes, cooking schools, food artisans and even the odd gas station […]
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