17 Reasons Calgary is awesome.
There are so many reasons I find it easy to savour it all in Calgary. This article speaks to 17 of them.
What are you waiting for? Hop on a plane. Come to Calgary and Savour it All
Tag Archives: #yycfood
Behind the scenes @CityPalate Iron Sommelier Challenge #yycfood #yycwine
The remains of the day…of wine tasting
photo – Karen Anderson
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 town and 12 incredible wines can only be described as a plum assignment with spicy notes and an incredible finish.
I hope you’ll enjoy this very fun article about City Palate magazine’s annual Iron Sommelier Challenge. I sure enjoyed writing it. It was fun to capture the very playful scene it became and to learn from the experts. If you’d like a sneak peak into what went on in the background of this article please read on…
Filed under Joy, Restaurants, Wine, Writing
Art Installation #5 – Cool things #16 – @CityPalate presents #CheflyScreenShots #film 2 celebrate 20th anniversary
Chefly 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 food, art and film.
Here are the details and ticket link from the City Palate press release as follows:
Filed under Art Installation, Cool things
Bean to Bar Chocolate by @Choklatyyc for Valentine’s Day – my @AlbertaAtNoon column for February
Valentine’s is the kind of special occasion that I get my little chocolate fountain out and actually use Choklat’s chocolate to lavish the love of my life with his favourite treat
photo – Karen Anderson
Chocolate is a great ingredient and some say it is its own food group. In the history of chocolate, we’ve gone from small family run firms concerned with ethical practices and the purity of their product – to big multinational corporations infamous for their exploitive monopolies and ruthless quest to increase bottom lines – to a new trend back called the “bean to bar” movement which appears to once again be focusing on purity and ethics.
This post will talk about what it means to be a bean to bar chocolate maker and the history of how we’ve arrived at this trend. To close we’ll focus on Alberta’s one and only bean to bar operation, a company called Choklat and its three Alberta stores.
Filed under Alberta at Noon
Savour food – Calgary’s Crossroads Market expansion news- @CalgaryHerald piece by @JohnGilchrist
Crossroads Market gets snazzy makeover.
If you read John Gilchrist’s article above, I think you’ll agree it’s nice to see that one of Calgary’s three year round markets is refurbishing and expanding. Now that we have three farmer’s markets open year round in Calgary it is so much easier to source your food locally and directly from a great local food producer.
Here are the links to our three year round farmer’s markets as follows:
I’ll be speaking about lots of ways to #EatLocally for the Calgary Public Library at three sessions this week and next. The schedule is as follows:
Louise Riley Branch – Thursday, April 4, 7 – 8:30pm
Nose Hill Branch – Monday, April 8, 1 – 2:30pm
Southwood Branch – Wednesday, April 10, 7 – 8:30pm
You can contact those library branches to see if there is any room available. There’s just so many ways to savour food and our local food scene. I hope you’ll join me as I share a few of my favourites.
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