Why Fasting Boosts Brain Power – Mark Mattson
Mark Mattson explains how fasting helps to boost your brain power by activating adaptive stress-response pathways which help your brain cope with stress and disease.
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February 8, 2016
Britt’s Pickles (Lactofermented in Oak Barrels)
The most delicious, nutritious pickles. Lacto-fermented with love in oak barrels on Whidby Island.
March 8, 2013
Chocolate-Coconut Comfort Tea
Simple and delicious comfort tea using two of my favorite BC based beverages. Chocolate Mint tea and Coconut water. Tasty treat. Desert tea.
December 11, 2011
Holy Creamline Baby!
One of the reasons Industrial Dairy's don't want us to have access to real, unprocessed milk direct from the farm-gate. All the cream they are skimming off for themselves will be exposed.
December 11, 2011
Local // Global #Occupy Truffles
Everything tastes better when you put in the time and effort to track down food grown and prepared with a conscious and respectful attitude. This is a delicious homemade truffle recipe.
October 27, 2011
Scoozi’s Fresh Fruit & Yogurt
Raving about the delicious, diverse, fresh fruit salad and homemade yogurt drizzled with local honey from Scoozi's Restaurant in Vancouver, BC.
August 2, 2011
Vancouver Tourism Challenge
I’ve just had the most amazing weekend, and thought it might be of interest to others living here in Vancouver.
I wasn’t even aware of this until a couple days ago, but there is a great program here called the Vancouver Tourism Challenge, which is available to everyone working or volunteering in the tourism industry in the city. How it works is each spring participants are given a tourism challenge passport, which grants free admission for themselves and a guest to a whole slew of tourist attractions in the city and surrounding areas for the next month. By collecting stamps in the passport at enough of these attractions, they earn free admissions for the entire year, as well as discounts at restaurants, hotels, and being entered to win prizes.
June 1, 2010
Kitchen Community
During the Winter Olympics I helped out at Lazy Gourmet which was very busy catering to French House, General Electric Hosting, Price Waterhouse Coopers, events for the Polish Government, Vanoc, Richard Branson and a bunch of other stuff. Given this line up, and knowing Lazy Gourmet’s reputation as being the best catering in Vancouver, I expected to be working in a high stress environment. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself in an easy-going but highly efficient kitchen full of interesting and widely varied people. I realised in the 11 days I spent working there, how much I have missed the special sort of community you get when you cook together.
March 11, 2010
Fresh Noodles at Sha Lin
Fresh noodles at Sha Lin Noodle house, Vancouver BC. Watch as your noodles are made before your eyes.
November 22, 2009
Burmese Dining in London
I was very excited to get a message from a friend in London who was taking her man out for his birthday dinner to Mandalay, which is a very good Burmese restaurant in London, one of the few Burmese restaurants outside of Myanmar in the world. There is also a very good one in San Francisco and a couple in New York, if anyone else knows of any others, please let me know!
Burmese food is really it’s own thing and I highly recommend trying it out if you get a chance. Kat’s message follows:
I just got back from the restaurant and the food was fantastic! I had that coconut chicken noodle soup (Kaukswe) that you recommended and it was divine! It reminded me a bit of Penang Laksa only better ‘cus they use chicken breast which I prefer! So no bones or funny offal stuff that you sometimes get in noodle dishes. I had battered veg for starters a bit like tempura and some lovely chicken samosas. For dessert I had a tapioca pudding in coconut milk (a bit like Gula Melaka) and Jake had a lovely semolina cake (pictured above).
November 13, 2009