Shopping for a Picnic in Bruges, Belgium
I love all the little independent food shops in Belgium, and Bruges had tons. On the second day, after gazing at all these wonderful food ‘delis’, El suggested a picnic […]
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Sustainable Seafood UBC Cooking Class No. 4
Different types of tuna have different concerns as to both with mercury and sustainability. Again, the rough rule of thumb is that a smaller fish, such as albacore tuna, has […]
Sustainable Seafood UBC Cooking Class No. 3
Our third cooking class in ‘Sustainable Seafood’ looked at mercury in fish. Larger, older, predatory fish have the most mercury because they have had more time to accumulate it; watch […]
Sustainable Seafood Cooking Class No. 2
Our second class in Sustainable Seafood looked at the Canadian SeaChoice seafood guide – a handy little brochure that labelled the various seafoods as green (best choice), yellow (some concerns) […]
Sustainable Seafood – Class 1, a Pescetarian Menu
Our first class in sustainable seafood, taught by Chef Eric at UBC, featured a ‘pescetarian’ menu, based on a vegetarian diet that includes seafood or fish. All the dishes were […]
Taste of Mexico: Veracruz
For our next installment of “Taste of Mexico,” Chef Gabbi takes you to one of the country’s coastal gems. The state of Veracruz is a slender strip of land, squeezed…
Thai menu from northeast Thailand (Issan)
Wimaan Thai Restaurant, 1063 West Broadway, Vancouver. For the third Thai banquet in our UBC ‘eating’ course we went to Wimaan Thai Restaurant which featured food from north-east Thailand, the […]
Spanish Tapas at UBC, Class No. 2
My favorite dish of the evening was pickled mackerel, (escabeche), described as ‘fish in vinegar’. It didn’t sound all that appealing, and when I saw the amount of work involved […]
Japanese Home-Cooking Class #2
The second Japanese Home-Cooking class contained introductions to even more Japanese ingredients that I had never heard of. We started with miso soup with little beech mushrooms, and then began prepping […]
Albatz Travel Adventures 