Honorary member of the Potato Nation – Melissa Craig, we have a crown (and a grilled cheese sandwich) for you.
The Bearfoot Bistro’s executive chef, culinary superstar Melissa Craig, was profiled in the Globe and Mail yesterday. Is there an ingredient that you feel represents Whistler? Pemberton [farm] vegetables, I even use them in the winter. Like carrots, potatoes and beets. I actually phoned them the other day to get some crosnes (Chinese artichokes) and … Read more
A taste of India, made in Pemberton – meeting Nidhi of Nidhi’s Cuisine
If you’re hankering for organic, locally sourced vegetarian cuisine around Pemberton, you don’t have to look any further than Nidhi’s Cuisine. And thanks to Nidhi, you don’t have to go to Kashmir to enjoy Pemberton produce with an Iranian and Muslim twist. As the weekly Farmers Market winds down, Nidhi Raina will showcase her food … Read more
Wild Planet Raw Foods – Sarinda Hoilett shares how to live deliciously raw, wild, and in tune
While a raw food diet might have a reputation as the bento box for the fringe and the freaky, Sarinda Hoilett’s clients and converts are regular folk, people with allergies and food sensitivities, yogis, conscientious moms, dedicated gourmands and the growing ranks of everyday people who want to know where their food comes from. The … Read more
Making coffee count, at the Mount Currie Coffee Company
Before November 2007, when the Mount Currie Coffee Company opened its doors, Pemberton was a kind of Siberia for coffee-purists, an isolated wilderness far far from anywhere. But when the much anticipated cafe opened it doors, that all changed. The Pemberton coffeehouse scene started happening. Owner Chris Ankeny, a photographer and snowboard pro formerly of … Read more
Taste of the Potato Nation
Pick up (or download) the summer issue of Taste magazine from the BC Liquor Store for a series of North Arm Farm inspired recipes featuring fingerling potatoes, fresh dill and chives, and local beef and root vegetables. Here’s the recipe for FINGERLING POTATO SALAD WITH BUTTERMILK DRESSING AND FRESH HERBS if you are inspired to try … Read more
Party on with the Rootdown pig and the Foodlovers
Chef Maxim Ridorossi and Pastry Chef Jenna Dashney are the Foodlovers Cooking Company. They have made their home in the Pemberton Valley after years of travel: Maxim refined his skills in some of Canada’s finest restaurants (Toronto’s North 44, Vancouver’s West, Victoria’s Café Brio, Sooke Harbour House, the King Pacific Lodge) and Jenna learned chocolatiering in Paris, … Read more
Bikes and Food. That’s how the Slow Food Cycle works.
Back in 2005, an event was dreamed up to let people see what Pemberton was all about. (Jack Christie writes the Untold Story of the original Slow Food Cycle in the Straight.) Now attracting thousands of riders, the “peloton of pleasure seekers” has also been voted one of National Geographic Traveler magazine’s top 20 travel-worthy … Read more
For the love of bread
If I were to write a movie set in Pemberton, the main character would be a pastry chef named Raven Burns who has a wild pet crow that follows her to work each day, and who runs a bakery called Blackbird Bakery, that is set-designed to look like the perfect archetype of a bakery, and … Read more
Your crash course in the August 21 Pemberton Slow Food Cycle Sunday
Real food. Real people. Real fun.
