Dining Features

Chefs dream up those salad days of summer
Books cooked to your taste
Go grazing at these summer food festivals
Pickers point way to bounty of fresh berries
Barbecue pro serves sizzling grill tips
Food fighter Michael Pollan works the UBC Farm
They design, you dine: restaurants decor it up
Even condo dwellers can grow their dinner

Chefs dream up those salad days of summer

Who says a salad has to be simple?
Book Features

Books cooked to your taste

Cookbooks run the gamut from simple to sumptuous.

Go grazing at these summer food festivals

Here are six festivals for which you’re advised to show up with an appetite and not hold back—summer comes but once a year.

Pickers point way to bounty of fresh berries

U-pick fans find satisfaction in staining their fingers, whether they pluck farm-grown blueberries or back-alley blackberries.

Barbecue pro serves sizzling grill tips

When it comes to barbecuing, Ron Shewchuk wants nothing to do with boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Give him a well-marbled steak or a fat, juicy sausage any day.

Food fighter Michael Pollan works the UBC Farm

At a UBC Farm fundraiser, author Michael Pollan will dish on the real-food revolution.

They design, you dine: restaurants decor it up

Some restaurants are blessed with location, location, location and naturally draw in customers. Others need to create a buzz about their room in order to appeal to those seeking a meal. That’s where great design comes in.

Even condo dwellers can grow their dinner

Fuelled by the smaller household budgets of an economic downturn, buzz about the benefits of urbanites producing their own food is spreading.

Rustic Hakka cuisine packed with flavour at Hakkasan

Mention Hakka cuisine to a friend and you might get a blank look. That’s because in Vancouver, Hakka cuisine isn’t nearly as widespread as Cantonese cuisine. But there are places to sample this unique style of cooking.

Let's do lunch, but for less

When times were good, downtown restaurants were packed at lunchtime with high rollers celebrating market upswings and impressing clients with lavish meals. Recent economic events, however, have taught companies to be cautious.

Thrifty cooking a dying skill

B.C.’s younger generations are particularly vulnerable during tough economic times, because they have no idea how to cook for themselves.

Aboriginal cuisine heats up

A handful of up-and-coming First Nations chefs may well make aboriginal cuisine the next big thing on the local culinary scene.

Healthy Indian recipes go back to village roots

When Bal Arneson moved to Canada 16 years ago, she discovered that the Indian food served in Vancouver restaurants wasn’t the Indian food she knew and loved from her native village.

Solo diners can savour these tables for one

Enjoying a meal all by yourself in a fine-dining restaurant may seem decadent or, frankly, terrifyingly daunting if you’ve never eaten alone before.

Cooks fire up the classroom

The theme for this year’s Eric Hamber Secondary School 11/12 class is Global Gourmet as students take a culinary tour of the world’s cuisines.