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How sweet it is: Albertans have plenty of reasons to love this local Meadery
Give it up for the honeybee: the folks behind Fallentimber Meadery do. It's not a stretch to see the third-generation beekeeping family...
Lucy Haines
Jul 17, 20235 min read
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Open that Bottle with Sam Clark
From Liverpool to New Zealand and back again, to Australia, Canada, Scotland, and back to Canada, Sam Clark has packed a lot into 30...
Linda Garson
Jun 30, 20233 min read
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Chef’s Tips: All For Al Fresco
Summer is back, and rumour has it this one will be another scorcher for Alberta. That means that anything that can be done outdoors will...
Keane Straub
Jun 28, 20233 min read
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Alberta’s World Class Grains:
Generating Glasses Full of Opportunity and Optimism From farm to flask, grain to glass, and crop to cocktail, Alberta craft distillers...
Adrianne Lovric
Jun 21, 20236 min read
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GroundUp Eco-Ventures: turning beverage industry waste into high-quality food
Over the last decade or so, consumers have generally become much more conscious about which kinds of waste we send to the landfill and...
Elizabeth Chorney-Booth
Jun 12, 20234 min read
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Open that Bottle with Cam Dobranski
Born and raised in Edmonton, Cam Dobranski’s parents had medical and scientific backgrounds. He always loved cooking, and as a young teen...
Linda Garson
May 29, 20233 min read
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Fun at The Fort: A spirited bunch takes on distilling
Despite challenges facing the competitive liquor industry, The Fort Distillery is seeing steady growth, and company owner/founder Nathan...
Lucy Haines
May 23, 20235 min read
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All Fired Up!
The May long weekend is on! Time to take stock of what to bring, what to wear, and most importantly, what to eat! Whether your idea of...
Keane Straub
May 18, 20234 min read
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The Wines of Alberta
Way back when, in 2005, Alberta introduced the cottage winery licence (Class E) to add value to Alberta’s agriculture by diversifying the...
Erika Ravnsborg
May 10, 20234 min read
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Chef's Tips: Simply Sustainable
These days, sustainable cooking is less a trend and more habit, thanks to how easy it is to source local ingredients. A trip to the...
Keane Straub
Apr 24, 20234 min read
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A Slice of Goodness: The condensed history of bread in Alberta
Brio Bakery owner and baker Todd Barraclough spent 15 years working as a dental technician in Edmonton before moving into the world of...
Shelley Boettcher
Apr 17, 20237 min read
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Open that Bottle with Michiko Ono
Growing up in Niigata, Japan, tea played an important role in Michiko Ono’s family. Their home had a traditional Japanese guest room with...
Linda Garson
Mar 30, 20233 min read
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Okawari kudasai: More food, please!
When the topic of Japanese cuisine is broached, most minds turn to sushi, and to an extent, rice. But as we discovered from speaking with...
Keane Straub
Mar 26, 20233 min read
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The Art of Japanese Fine Dining
As Japanese cuisine has gained popularity in Alberta over the past decade, we now have opportunities to explore and enjoy more elaborate...
Patricia Lau
Mar 20, 20235 min read
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Japan’s most famous beverage is gaining ground
Gone are the days of one cheap bottle of sake on liquor store shelves. Sake is becoming mainstream and widely available throughout...
Adrianne Lovric
Mar 6, 20235 min read
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Say Cheese!
Perhaps one of the longest, continuous love affairs in gastronomy is that between humans and cheese. For more than 7,000 years we’ve been...
Keane Straub
Feb 8, 20233 min read
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Find Your Festival in 2023 (Part One)
Festivals. Remember them? No matter how you define of the word, they exist throughout Alberta, in every season, ranging from million...
David Nuttall
Feb 1, 20233 min read
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Partake: Low on alcohol, high on flavour
Over the last few years phrases like “non-alc,” “zero proof,” and the seasonal “dry January” and “sober October” have entered the public...
Elizabeth Chorney-Booth
Jan 17, 20234 min read
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Start it up: New Year, New Culinary Business
Have you always dreamed of creating your own culinary business? There’s a lot to consider - recipes, packaging, funding, selling. Here...
Shelley Boettcher
Jan 12, 20235 min read
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XhALE Brewing Co.: Serving social consciousness with a beer chaser
While you will find a few examples of women, people of colour, and a diversity of other people making waves in the always-growing local...
Elizabeth Chorney-Booth
Dec 21, 20224 min read
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