Tag: Food Writing
Recipe: golden rutabaga & parsnip soup with mushrooms & microgreens
This earthy soup could also be called “Early Spring at the Farmer’s Market.” It features two overlooked root vegetables that are among the last of the previous season’s veggies still available at market stalls in […]
Recipe: Extreme Green Soup
If you are low on vitamins or just need a quick hit of veggies (and seriously, who doesn’t), this is the soup for you. It’s totally unlike your average plain, boring vegetable soup: loaded with […]
Recipe: Faux-roccan Lamb & Chickpea Stew
A rock-hard tube of frozen ground lamb: not a common (or overly appealing) ingredient in my house; previously I’d only used it successfully in homemade ravioli. But a decent working knowledge of foreign cuisine is […]
Edmonton’s 2014 Food Year in Review & Predictions for 2015
You’ve seen enough annual year in review lists; here’s one more. I put together a collection of food trends over the past year, concentrated on local Edmonton stuff but with an eye to the greater […]
Edible Insects
I was psyched; I was ready; I actually wanted to eat this cricket. So reads the first line of an article I wrote about edible insects for Vue. I want you to imagine eating a […]
The Chocolate Issue
Humans have known that chocolate is awesome for millennia. This week’s Vue is The Chocolate Issue. It was my first feature issue as Dish editor, and I think it turned out pretty well if I […]
How do you like them apples?
Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton is doing good things around town. The group, which started in 2009, has rescued countless pounds of fruit over the past five years. But there is so much more that could […]
Downtown Edmonton’s Grocery Store Shortage
This week’s issue of Vue features a piece I wrote the new downtown location of Earth’s General Store. They opened the new store about six weeks ago on 104 Street, in the space formerly occupied […]
Welcome to my site, version 2.0
I’m back, with a new and improved site after about a year-long hiatus. I’ll be posting various vinous ruminations in due order.
