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Alberta entrepreneurs bring innovation and grit (no, not dirt) to gardening in small spaces
Ryan and Tessa Agrey with the Eden Tower indoor vertical garden system Tessa and Ryan Agrey are a determined pair. The brother and sister...
Lucy Haines
Apr 215 min read
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Serving up Deals: Alberta restaurants offer myriad ways to eat out for less
Getting a deal these days anywhere is tough, whether you’re in the market for a good steak or a wine-filled night with friends. But...
Shelley Boettcher
Apr 84 min read
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Little Gem Winery charms southern Alberta
You might not think a potato farmer and a cattle rancher have much in common with winemaking, but you haven’t heard the story of Joel...
Lucy Haines
Mar 184 min read
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Chef’s Tips: Straight from the Heart
We’ve talked to a lot of chefs over the years, and whenever we ask them about what drives them to cook, there is almost always some...
Keane Straub
Feb 114 min read
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Confetti Sweets knows the joy of a cookie
Many of us grew up making cookies with our moms, or still enjoy baking them with our own kids, or just for ourselves – it’s a simple...
Lucy Haines
Feb 55 min read
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Offally Delicious: This legendary Scottish dish “is truly delightful”
You’d be forgiven if you thought haggis sounds, well, unappetizing. Scotland’s national dish is made of sheep offal (the heart, organ...
Shelley Boettcher
Jan 214 min read
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Chef’s Tips: Holiday Entertaining for Extra Credit
Lately it seems when the holidays come around, more and more people are developing new traditions and scaling back the celebrations, so...
Keane Straub
Dec 20, 20244 min read
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Chef’s Tips: K-Food
Hallyu – The South Korean Wave By Linda Garson A couple of years ago, the most popular food trends for new restaurant openings were...
Keane Straub
Nov 26, 20245 min read
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Local Roaster Celebrates 50 Years as Pioneer of The Specialty Coffee Industry
Fratello means ‘brother’ in Italian – a fitting moniker for Calgary-based Fratello Coffee Roasters, the family-focused coffee pioneer...
Lucy Haines
Nov 26, 20245 min read
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Chef’s Tips: Weeknight Dinners 101
With the first months of the school year in the books, we figured it was a good time to catch up with students – in this case, students...
Keane Straub
Oct 29, 20245 min read
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Hunt, Gather, and Share…
By Linda Garson and Keane Straub with Janine Windolph We have long held the belief that one of the most fascinating and rewarding...
Linda Garson
Sep 30, 20243 min read
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Much more than a snack: Mitsoh aims to preserve and share Indigenous culture, too
It is said when you’re passionate about your work, it doesn’t really feel like work. For Ian Gladue and his Indigenous enterprise Mitsoh ...
Lucy Haines
Sep 19, 20245 min read
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Sweltering Summers and Shaved Ice
Summers are for memories and cold treats, so this summer give shaved ice desserts a try! Imagine a mound of a fluffy, lightly sweetened,...
Lailani Mendoza-Lai
Jul 22, 20245 min read
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Open That Bottle With Sky McLean
“You always hear, don't do food and beverage, and I was like, we're never doing food and beverage. And then here we are doing food and...
Linda Garson
Jun 25, 20243 min read
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From waste to resource, one chopstick at a time
Do you ever think about what happens to the chopsticks you use at the restaurant, or fast-food spot? Most of us don’t give it a thought,...
Lucy Haines
Jun 19, 20244 min read
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Edible Flowers in The Kitchen: Practical Tips & Guidelines
The sprawling world of culinary flowers can be roughly divided in two; half are flowers that have been processed for use in prepared food...
Morris Lemire
Jun 12, 20243 min read
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Alberta’s 7 Signature Foods
From our 60th parallel northern border down to the 49th parallel and our border with the US, Alberta covers a lot of land – around 158...
Linda Garson
May 26, 20245 min read
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The Big Dusty Book… of Beers Deserving More Love
The best thing to come out of the craft beer explosion of the past forty plus years is variety. After been stuck in a rut of bland lagers...
David Nuttall
May 20, 20244 min read
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Alberta Meadery Combines Local Product with Old Country Values
Calgary’s Dritan and Albana Qose are a local success story, entrepreneurs focused on using local products at their meadery, Apollonia...
Lucy Haines
May 6, 20245 min read
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Diony Distillery: From art to top shelf whisky, it’s more than a passion project
When Stephane Pilon decided he wanted to open a business a few years ago, he couldn’t have known the search would take him from Canada to...
Lucy Haines
Apr 22, 20244 min read
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