Restaurant: Fish Market & Seafood Dinner in Korea Cuisine: Korean/Seafood Last visited: April 7, 2010 Location: Seoul, Korea Address: Fish Market Price Range: Varies – Market price 1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very good 5: Excellent 6: Tres Excellent!! Food: n/a Service: n/a Ambiance: 6 Overall: 5 Additional comments: Seafood only Relatively inexpensive fresh … more
There is a VHS video of my little brother, at age 3, hunched over our old dinner table, intensively focused on chewing off every piece of meat off a soy-roasted pig’s feet. This was the late 90s, we had been in the States for a few years but not long enough to forget the old Chinese custom of enjoying different textures in what we eat. If you know anything about a pig’s feet, you would know that the Chinese regard its place on the dinner table as some sort of a rare delicacy. It has … more
A few days ago I promised to share some of my thought about The Economist’s Special Report on The 9 Billion People Question. There is a lot of good information from this report and it’s hard for me to get a handle on how to tell you about the complexity of our food situation. How do I help you start in this conversation without committing you to the mistakes that so many, including myself, have committed? www-personal.umich.edu I don’t … more
Restaurant: YEW Restaurant & Bar Cuisine: West Coast/Pacific Rim/Eclectic/Seafood Last visited: February 2, 2011 Location: Vancouver, BC (Downtown) Address: 791 W Georgia Street Price Range: $30-50+ 1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very good 5: Excellent 6: Tres Excellent!! Food: n/a didn’t try enough Service: n/a Ambiance: 5 Overall: n/a Additional comments: Casual … more
“Dinner in the Dark” at Culinary Capers Catering Dinner in the Dark: The Experience of a blindfolded dinner event. Eating blindfolded. It’s an old concept, but rather new to the Vancouver dining scene, and Culinary Capers Catering is one of the first to introduce it. I was invited by Tourism Vancouver to experience “Dinner in the Dark” at Culinary Capers, a local and award winning full service gourmet catering company. It was an eight course blindfolded dinner paired … more