meet jamie beck
photos by Jamie Beck Easy: Getting lost in the dreamy, evocative photographs of From Me To You. Ridiculously difficult: Choosing just a few images to include in this post. I have no idea what series...
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At the end of a Gulf Island vacation, my friends and I dropped in on the Salt Spring Island Cheese Company. If you’re in the Pacific Northwest, you’ve probably seen their pretty, petite chèvre rounds...
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The dog days of summer are here and I just returned from another quick trip to Portland, Oregon. I know I seem to write more about Bridgetown than my own home of Vancouver, BC, but there’s just so...
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photos courtesy Molly Watson I live on the West Coast and love seafood, so you’d think I’d be intimately familiar with mussels. Right? Wrong. For years, those delicious little devils scared the shells...
View Articlethinking outside the kitchen
photo by Fred R. Conrad / New York Times I loved Frank Bruni‘s recent New York Times story about ballsy chefs burning the rulebook to create unique dining experiences. The highlights: - John Fraser...
View Articleescape to italy
photos by Lissa Cowan It’s 3 pm on a Tuesday afternoon. Heavy rain (or worse, snow) is flying sideways past the window, whipped into a frenzy by late-winter winds. Someone dented your bumper in the...
View Articlecafé culture
I’ve written before about my love for Monocle magazine. My only complaint? It’s seriously dense. There’s so much good stuff jammed into every issue that it’s tough to finish one in under a month. All...
View Articlelinks to love
After dinner at Delancey Some notable links as we head into the weekend: 1. I was thrilled to see Delancey get some love in last week’s New York Times. A longtime Orangette reader, I licked my chops in...
View Articlea spring feast
all photos by Jamie Mann On an unseasonably warm night in late May, about 35 people gathered at Vancouver’s Zientte to eat, drink and laugh together. It was a diverse group, but we all had one thing...
View Articlemeet paul jarvis
photos by Marnie Recker He’s an accomplished web designer, musician, llama lover, nut enthusiast (yup, you read that right), blogger (who writes posts like “fuck being cool”) and now, the author of an...
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