Hotel Arts
#ArtInstallation No 17 – Love this @ToqueCanoe article on #ArtfulHotels
Toque and Canoe is a travel blog devoted to people who want the inside scoop on CANADA! I care for that. This week they published a piece called The Artful Hotel – Where every room is a gallery and it featured one of my favourite artful hotels – Hotel Arts in Calgary. Hotels with art […]
More#Cocktail recipe for my June column for @albertaatnoon
Coincidences make for great stories. One day last week, I went to visit Christina Mah. Mah is the general manager of The Hotel Arts’ “Viet Mod” bistro called Raw Bar by Duncan Lee. She is also the president of the Alberta Chapter of the Canadian Professional Bartender’s Association (CPBA). I interviewed Mah about cocktail making […]
MoreBehind the scenes @CityPalate Iron Sommelier Challenge #yycfood #yycwine
Fine wine delivers a small bouquet of joy. Especially when that wine is paired with great food. Knowing which wine to pair with what food is the work of sommeliers. Writing about a sommelier challenge that involved three incredibly talented sommeliers, three wine expert judges, two savoury dishes from one of my favourite chefs in […]
MoreVietnamese Pork Salad Rolls – recipe fr @Chefdly of @RawBarYYC @HotelArtsYYC
Humanely raised pork is a great ingredient. Yesterday, I wrote about a few Alberta Pork Producers that are raising their animals humanely. Today, I’d like to share the recipe for the beautiful pork salad rolls pictured above. Consider them an added incentive to go out and find some of these products. You can nourish a […]
MoreDoes the pork industry miss the point via @CalgaryHerald article today? – Deadly pig virus spurs Alberta Pork to organize farmer meetings
Deadly 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 […]
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