Food

March 1, 2023 - Canadian passport and food for Ellie Shortt food story. Don Denton photo

Transport your taste buds

Travel the globe without leaving your kitchen

  • May 26, 2023

 

Chef Dez shares his recipe for cherry soup. (Chef Dez/Special to Black Press Media)

ON COOKING: First memories are of mom’s food

Some thoughts have been simmering for Chef Dez who explores how his food memories are tied to family

  • May 12, 2023

 

Grandpa J's Seasoning. Lia Crowe photography

Taste of Greece

Vancouver sisters turn to their roots to spice up the seasoning industry

  • May 3, 2023

 

Produce vegetables are displayed for sale at a grocery store in May 2022. Food costs continue to outpace overall inflation, but experts predict grocery prices to begin stabilizing this year as supply chains return to pre-pandemic levels. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)

LETTER: Langley City resident critical of rising grocery prices

Many Canadians are struggling during this economy, letter writer notes

  • Apr 16, 2023
Produce vegetables are displayed for sale at a grocery store in May 2022. Food costs continue to outpace overall inflation, but experts predict grocery prices to begin stabilizing this year as supply chains return to pre-pandemic levels. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)
January 16, 2023 - Illustration for food story on using food in your pantry. Story and recipes by Ellie Shortt.. Don Denton photo

Pantry to plate

Recipes for a rainy day

  • Apr 14, 2023
January 16, 2023 - Illustration for food story on using food in your pantry. Story and recipes by Ellie Shortt.. Don Denton photo
Otter Co-op CEO Jack Nicholson and founding Ribfest director Jeff Morfitt show off the new signs for the 2023 charity festival showing Otter Co-op and Angry Otter Liquor as the title sponsors. (Special to Langley Advance Times)

Otter steps into key role to help grow Ribfest

Co-op and its liquor stores have become title sponsor of the charitable Langley festival

Otter Co-op CEO Jack Nicholson and founding Ribfest director Jeff Morfitt show off the new signs for the 2023 charity festival showing Otter Co-op and Angry Otter Liquor as the title sponsors. (Special to Langley Advance Times)
Farm fresh eggs from a vending machine? Who would have thought? And, yet, Doug Groenendijk has made it a reality. (Photo by Don Bodger)

B.C. farmer comes out of his shell to sell vending machine eggs

Vancouver Islands’ Doug Groenendijk says timing right to get cracking with a new venture

Farm fresh eggs from a vending machine? Who would have thought? And, yet, Doug Groenendijk has made it a reality. (Photo by Don Bodger)
The Langley Food Truck Festival was held in September 2021. (Langley Advance Times files)

Langley food truck festival owners faced with bill for thousands

Husband and wife told the event must cover policing costs

The Langley Food Truck Festival was held in September 2021. (Langley Advance Times files)
Kelowna’s Lakehouse Home Store has opened Lakehouse Kitchens Cooking School with Lakehouse’s culinary director, Chef Bernard Casavant. Darren Hull photo

Romancing the stove

Date night at Lakehouse Kitchens Cooking School

  • Mar 31, 2023
Kelowna’s Lakehouse Home Store has opened Lakehouse Kitchens Cooking School with Lakehouse’s culinary director, Chef Bernard Casavant. Darren Hull photo
Karen Long showed a container of pre-made soup created by volunteers and then sold to raise money for Langley Meals on Wheels. (Dan Ferguson/Black Press Media)

Volunteer chefs helping fundraiser for Aldergrove charity

Apron-wearing groups are taking turns cooking for Langley Meals on Wheels

  • Mar 24, 2023
Karen Long showed a container of pre-made soup created by volunteers and then sold to raise money for Langley Meals on Wheels. (Dan Ferguson/Black Press Media)
Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport Lana Popham (front row second from left), Minister of Post-Secondary Education, Future Skills Selina Robinson (front row third from left) and Okanagan College President Dr. Neil Fassina (front row right) were on hand for the announcement for a new food, wine and tourism centre for the college. (Photo/Gaary Barnes)

Province cooks up new centre for tourism, culinary arts at Okanagan College

The province is providing OC with $44.8 million for the centre

Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport Lana Popham (front row second from left), Minister of Post-Secondary Education, Future Skills Selina Robinson (front row third from left) and Okanagan College President Dr. Neil Fassina (front row right) were on hand for the announcement for a new food, wine and tourism centre for the college. (Photo/Gaary Barnes)
Courtenay residents included in the city’s residential curbside collection program can now participate in weekly food waste collection. File photo

Tiny B.C. island community’s answer to climate change? Feed everyone

Quadra Island volunteers combing discarded food for nutrition, getting it to those who need it

Courtenay residents included in the city’s residential curbside collection program can now participate in weekly food waste collection. File photo
This image provided by The Hershey Company shows the company’s new Hershey’s plant-based extra creamy with almonds and sea salt. The company said Tuesday, March 7, 2023, that Reese’s plant-based peanut butter cups will be its first plant-based chocolate sold nationally when they go on sale in March. A second vegan offering, Hershey’s plant-based extra creamy with almonds and sea salt, will follow in April. (The Hershey Company via AP)

Hershey debuts plant-based Reese’s Cups, chocolate bars

Chocolate line is made with oats instead of milk

This image provided by The Hershey Company shows the company’s new Hershey’s plant-based extra creamy with almonds and sea salt. The company said Tuesday, March 7, 2023, that Reese’s plant-based peanut butter cups will be its first plant-based chocolate sold nationally when they go on sale in March. A second vegan offering, Hershey’s plant-based extra creamy with almonds and sea salt, will follow in April. (The Hershey Company via AP)
FILE - An employee restocks meats on Jan. 17, 2023, in North Miami, Fla. Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans consume food could add nearly one degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study Monday, March 6, 2023. Researchers found that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from three major food groups — meat from animals like cows, sheep and goats, dairy and rice. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

The way we eat could add nearly 1 degree of warming by 2100

‘Methane emissions are really dominating the future warming associated with the food sector’

FILE - An employee restocks meats on Jan. 17, 2023, in North Miami, Fla. Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans consume food could add nearly one degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study Monday, March 6, 2023. Researchers found that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from three major food groups — meat from animals like cows, sheep and goats, dairy and rice. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
Chicken chop suey is one of the recipes created by Chef Dez in his cookbook on international cuisines.

ON COOKING: Chef Dez creates his version of chicken chop suey

Popular stir fry can be made at home

  • Feb 28, 2023
Chicken chop suey is one of the recipes created by Chef Dez in his cookbook on international cuisines.
As the cost of food continues to rise, grocery chains in Canada are reportedly making record profits. It’s time for the CEOs of these companies to explain themselves, says the federal New Democratic Party. (Unsplash photo)

OFF TOPIC: Bread or cake, the rising cost of food is giving me indigestion

How do grocery chain CEOs square skyrocketing prices with massive profits?

As the cost of food continues to rise, grocery chains in Canada are reportedly making record profits. It’s time for the CEOs of these companies to explain themselves, says the federal New Democratic Party. (Unsplash photo)
Professional chocolate sommelier Geoseph Domenichiello offers educational chocolate tastings in Salmon Arm. (Lachlan Labere-Salmon Arm Observer)

Salmon Arm chocolate sommelier passionate about opening minds and palates

Geoseph Domenichiello has been involved in the world of fine chocolate for 15 years

Professional chocolate sommelier Geoseph Domenichiello offers educational chocolate tastings in Salmon Arm. (Lachlan Labere-Salmon Arm Observer)
Chefs should be knowledgeable about optimum guidelines for preparing food, but ultimately, it should be up to the consumer of the dishes to decide their own taste preferences – steak being just one offered as example by Chef Dez. (Metro Creative Services)

ON COOKING: Don’t be bullied by culinary snobs

Chef Dez encourages people to be proud of their food preferences, and own it

  • Feb 20, 2023
Chefs should be knowledgeable about optimum guidelines for preparing food, but ultimately, it should be up to the consumer of the dishes to decide their own taste preferences – steak being just one offered as example by Chef Dez. (Metro Creative Services)
Laura Hashemi, CEO and creative director of The Graze Company. Lia Crowe photography

Gaze at Graze — and then tuck in

Boxes of edible art feed the need to “break bread” together

  • Feb 15, 2023
Laura Hashemi, CEO and creative director of The Graze Company. Lia Crowe photography
Eggs are sorted at an egg farm in West Lincoln, Ont., on Monday, March 7, 2016. Canada’s supply managed egg industry is quietly emerging as a boon for Canadian consumers as other countries grapple with massive egg shortages, rationing and spiking prices. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter Power

‘Made-in-Canada system’ keeps egg supply stable. But is it also keeping prices high?

Egg prices climbed 16.5 per cent from December 2021 to 2022

Eggs are sorted at an egg farm in West Lincoln, Ont., on Monday, March 7, 2016. Canada’s supply managed egg industry is quietly emerging as a boon for Canadian consumers as other countries grapple with massive egg shortages, rationing and spiking prices. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter Power