BC Living
You’ve Gotta Try This in December 2024
From Scratch: Chicken Soup Recipe
Earl Grey Cream Pie Recipe
How Barre Enhances Your Flexibility
Top Tips for Workout Recovery
5 Tips to Prevent Muscle and Joint Pain When Working a Desk Job
Inviting the Steller’s Jay to Your Garden
6 Budget-friendly Holiday Decor Pieces
Dream Home: $8 Million for a Modern Surprise
Local Getaway: Hide Away at a Lakefront Cabin in Nakusp
6 BC Ski Resorts to Visit this Winter
A Solo Traveller’s Guide to Cozy Accommodations
B.C. Adventures: Things to do in December
Disney on Ice Returns to Vancouver This Winter
5 Boutique Art Galleries to Visit in BC
11 Advent Calendars from BC-Based Companies
10 Nourishing Hair Masks and Oils for Dry Winter Days
The Best Gifts for Travellers in 2024
Watch hot chefs in action and sample some food at EAT! Vancouver.
Chef Wan at EAT! Vancouver 09
Once again EAT! Vancouver is in town, and yet again I ask myself, “What do pest control and foreign consulates have to do with the Vancouver food scene?”
Vancouver cuisine is renowned for its freshness and the way it borrows from myriad cultures. It’s a grassroots experience that reflects the close relationship that we in Canada share with nature. Yet, the commercial slickness of EAT! Is more akin to an infomercial for the latest must-have gadget.
May 28-30, 2010 Vancouver Convention Centrewww.eat-vancouver.com
Among the used-car-salesmen-in-chefs’-clothing are a handful of passionate people with great food to offer. So make sure you wade through the plastic-wrapped, preservative-rich, hyper-marketed food, and past the travel agents to root out the real finds.
The big draw cards for EAT! are the live demonstrations. Local experts and chefs, like Rob Feenie of Lumiere fame and Brenda Cortes-Castrejon from Dona Cata, share tips and recipes, and CityTV’s Master Chef competition runs throughout the weekend.
If you head down to the new Vancouver Convention Centre for this year’s EAT!, be sure to: > Have a good look at the schedule in advance (most events are on several times) > Don’t be shy about taking freebies > Bring cash (to buy tokens to trade for food)