Food and Drink

With all the talk of BLACKBERRIES around this time of year it's easy to forget that there are a bunch of fig trees in city parks and overhanging alleyways.

After a pretty weak effort last year , I decided to do more with my blackberries this time around with a pie. Mmmmmm.....Pie... What a great way to spend an evening, picking, baking, then eating.... Bob...the bar has been set....

Jef Choy alerted us that it's GAME ON for blackberry picking last week, and it really is.

Woah, remember the city's new FOOD CART program? Look at what CBC did for you: an interactive Google MAP of them all! They're on their way...

Get out there....this is the kind of thing you wait for all year for. I love blackberries so much. For the next two weeks at least, I'm going to be lugging around some ratty shopping bag, and a step ladder.

Every few weeks the nice folks at Ethical Bean drop off some fresh coffee beans to keep us caffeinated.

A reminder....Rule number one in blackberry picking....if it ain't fallin' off...don't pick it. But once they're ripe....get out of my way.... According to my post last year , we're right on schedule.

Do you love Granville Island like I do? Then you should probably enter a story in the "I Love Granville Island" storytelling contest! They're looking for your stories, typed out in 300 words or less or in video format.

The kind folks at Ethical Bean Coffee, who keep us caffeinated here in the V.I.A. office, made this short video below talking about their new iPhone app and how they score the different roasts that they produce.

Last week, in my quest to convert Vancouver author and comedian Charles Demers into a lover of one of my favourite Indian restaurants (the All India and Sweets at 49th and Main) I CALLED HIM OUT in a Green Eggs and Ham fashion.