Category: Eating
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Guest Post: Chomping down on the King of Fruit in Malaysia
By Deborah Tan & Ian Muirhead If you eat one thing in Malaysia, make it a durian. Durian is one of the most acquired tastes in the world. A hard, spikey shell houses this intimidating “king of fruit” and certainly makes it worthy of its moniker. It reigns in every way: the smell, the taste, the…
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Motivation Monday ~ Eat Love Local
Lately, I’ve been feeling really lucky to live in an area where there is so much abundant, fresh and delicious food. Did you know that there are 49,631 farms in Alberta (according to the 2006 census). For a place with 4.1 million people that’s about one farm per 83 people.
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Chefs Name their Ultimate Canadian Ingredients
Happy Canada Day! I recently asked a handful of Western Canadian Chefs: “What is your ultimate Canadian ingredient?” Here are their answers. I love berries, berries and more berries. I’ll eat them all: saskatoons, strawberries, salmon berries, huckleberries, soapberries. I grew up picking saskatoons, soapberries and strawberries with my grandma and as an adult discovered…