Summertime is a great time to enjoy fish. It cooks quickly, doesn’t need long marinating times, and is a light meal that can be made on the stove or the barbecue. It can even be served raw. Albertans primarily rely on flash-frozen seafood choices. Processed and frozen within hours of catch, preserves its peak nutritional value and texture. Locally sourced seafood is limited to fishes such as pickerel, whitefish, and rainbow trout. Pickerel is a versatile, mild, flaky white f

With backyard gardens and farmers’ markets bursting forth with beautiful produce, there is no better time to love vegetables than right now. How glorious it is to wander into your garden and pluck off a variety of veg for your summer supper! Or, if the farmers’ market is more your thing, a Saturday morning is well spent when tucking a variety of garden goodies into your basket. For me, the summer months are all about eating fresh and local, savouring and celebrating the mome

Back in 1910, a young woman in Spokane, Washington, wanted to honour her father and decided she wanted dads to have a day of their own just like Mother’s Day. From this, Father’s Day celebrations began to take hold and in the early 1920s arrived in Canada. Father’s Day celebrates one’s father, fatherhood and the importance of a male role in shaping children’s lives. Whichever form of dad you embody, you are an important part of family. Weather usually warms by the third we

Born and raised in Calgary, Christina Mah always dreamt of opening a restaurant. “I knew I would choose a career path that would end up with saving money to open a restaurant or a bar, or something in the hospitality industry. And then somewhere along the way, I started working in the industry,” says Mah. And at a young age, she set out on a path that would ultimately lead to just that. A job opening at Raw Bar in Hotel Arts piqued Mah’s interest. “There was a hotel that w

Photo courtesy prairiehardy.ca “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago, the second-best time is today” Chinese Proverb If you ever want to have an interesting conversation, talk to someone in horticulture, viticulture, or botany, about finding the right thing to plant and where to plant it. In the wine business, grapes are a perfect example of a predominantly single species, yet there are thousands of cultivars, all with different flavour profiles, tolerances