From superfoods to top shelve booze, restaurants to recipes, we cover the tastes and trends that you need to try. Here’s what to eat and drink right now.
Calgary’s a beef city, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy some fine fromage from time to time. The city is home to a number of excellent cheese shops. Presenting some of our favourites: Janice Beaton Fine Cheese (pictured) With two upscale locations, Janice Beaton sells more than 150 imported … Read More
What could be better, in these lean, recessionary times, than some fatty, Quebec-style comfort food? Au Pied de Cochon’s Martin Picard has tapped into the zeitgeist with his new, permanent sugar shack in St-Benoît de Mirabel, where the star chef pays homage to maple products and to Quebec’s terroir with … Read More
To dine at Charlie’s Burgers, a new underground anti-restaurant with no fixed address and a rotating cast of star chefs, customers need to apply online for an invitation. The elusive founder – believed by some to be Jamie Kennedy’s sommelier, Jamie Drummond (pictured left, with Susur Lee, at a recent … Read More
The Problem: You want to impress your guests with your cooking skills, yet you can hardly boil water. The Solution: A charcuterie plate: Because nothing’s better than cured meat glistening with ribbons of fat. Most gourmet food shops and some butchers carry sliced charcuterie. The Meats: Try coppa – cured … Read More
Sherry – a fortified wine from the region around the Spanish town of Jerez – might be the world’s most underappreciated wine. That’s probably why the Spanish grape varieties Palomino Fino and Pedro Ximenez, which are used to make dry sherry, have been called incomparably dull. We beg to differ. … Read More
