Living

This weekend, churches around the world will celebrate something that St. Francis of Assisi started almost 800 years ago: the blessing of animals. Coinciding with his feast day (the day that he died) on Oct.

It was during a random discussion in 2011 that Lundy Dale then-president of Campaign for Real Ale BC (CAMRA) and CAMRA Vancouver president Martin Williams decided to put a greater focus on craft beer.

The 9th Annual BC Restaurant Hall of Fame Gala took place on September 30 at the Italian Cultural Centre, and 11 of BCs restaurateurs, chefs, bartenders, pioneers, and industry leaders were inducted.

Putting a ring on it just became a lot more intense

Good Wolfe Kitchen & Bar has officially opened their doors and started lunch, dinner and brunch service.

Maria Leone spent decades building a Vancouver retail empire, and then, at age 50, she learned to swim. The feeling of treading water must have been a figurative first for the woman who has been the public face of Leone for the past 27 years.

When Cathy Whims opened Nostrana restaurant in Portland in 2005, it took me a while to understand why we werent making people happy. As a chef, she wondered if it was her food. But, no, it couldnt be that people were raving about her dishes.

The following first appeared as an advertorial in the Sept. 26, 2013 edition Married couple Cailyn and Steve Bays have barely seen each other since they moved into their newly purchased Main Street home in June.

This week, possibly my favourite kind of column a handful of recently tried wines that Ive been itching to share that have nothing in common with one another except the fact that I cant stop thinking about em.

Sausage making is one of the oldest forms of food processing and how meat was preserved. The whole animal was valued and remaining scraps and organs were ground up, salted, seasoned and stuffed into casings, often from a cleaned pigs intestines.