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
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
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
Spotting Pemberton’s most prolific graphic designer, Sumire Design
The artist otherwise known as Sumire Design? You definitely know her work. It’s everywhere. Take a stroll through Pemberton, take someone’s business card, log on to the Pemberton Arts Council website, admire a pair of G3 skis, pick up a souvenir tote or water bottle for Slow Food Cycle Sunday, or a Skate Park tshirt, … 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
Your crash course in the August 21 Pemberton Slow Food Cycle Sunday
Real food. Real people. Real fun.
Highway to foodlovers’ heaven
First, your soundtrack for the following post: And now, a special announcement from Michael McCarthy of the Province: Pemberton is heaven for food lovers. In an feature in today’s paper, McCarthy recounts the strange conundrum of Pemberton: a rustic agricultural outpost that is becoming a destination for the food-savvy, for those who appreciate wild rose … Read more
Best Place in North America to cruise for hippie chicks
Pemberton, BC, is hogging the headlines this summer, and that’s okay. Seattle’s Dan Kostrzewski features the Slow Food Cycle ride (alongside Dave Steers’ lush photography) as one of the season’s top trips for the summer 2011 issue of Mountain magazine. Dan joined a media visit last summer that took a bike through BC’s organic boom-town, … Read more
100 ways to enjoy a Pemberton potato
Fried, baked or mashed, distilled, or as crispy chips… Pemberton potatoes are at the heart of a healthy 100 mile diet. And harvesting is underway, now that Slow Food Cycle preparations aren’t here to distract our local growers! But they can be very sneaky. Hard to tell apart… …until you taste them. Here are some … Read more
