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I do. This is Mary Kathleen O’ Looney, your reporter in a bottle and this is my drunkablog. The scenario: You are all alone in a darkened room with a laptop. You got a case of Charles Shaw Merlo...

Loulou has very quickly become one of our favorite restaurants, and is pretty much our go-to place when we have friends or family in town. I've written it up once before, but we stopped in the other ...

Brooklyn loves to eat almost as much as it loves to blog, and it's always great to read more combinations of the two. Eat It is a new Brooklyn food blog that's definitely worth checking out. They ev...

On the recommendation of Ted Allen, we recently hit up abistro for brunch on a Sunday, eschewing our regular haunt of Olea for something new. I'll be honest, I had no idea this place even existed. A...

Peter of Moderne Burger sent me the same photos that Andrew posted on UrbanDiner and I have posted them to flickr to further publicize the re-opening. Check out Peter's Moderne Burger Sneak Peek Photo...

Check out the video below and the Eat Local / Your Local Farmers Market website.

Fallen in love with "micro-blogging" 140 character or less updates for VanEats and my personal stuff. I've added them to the right sidebar. You can also:

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Since we haven't been doing so great at writing restaurant reviews, I'm going to start writing even briefer reviews. La Buca (4025 MacDonald Street, 604.730.6988) is a simply decorated but smart looki...

I love a good food challenge. Not that food should be challenging. I just like to push myself a bit, think out of the box and try out new ingredients, cooking methods and flavours. We have been thrown...

After a hectic week home from the holidays, today was my first chance to plug into Living Vancouver. I caught the Living to Eat segment and low and behold there's a link to VanEats' Baking Recipes! It...

I can't remember the last time I bought a loaf of "regular" bread. "Regular" bread meaning a loaf of whole wheat or multigrain sandwich bread. Over the last few months I've been experimenting with dif...

Michael Ableman, Michael Stadtlaender, Heidi Noble, Brent Petkau aka The Oysterman, Sinclair Philip: These are just a few of the people and personalities across North America who are building sustaina...

Roland and I live in a townhouse community with some great food lovers. A few years ago we started having progressive dinners. Tonight's theme was small plates. Heather and Andrew's (Spanish tapas):-s...

In the Lower Mainland we are fortunate to be surrounded by rich agricultural land that produces food for our area as well as across Canada. Circle Farm Tours highlight some of the great food producers...

I love this picture! It's reproduced from a slide that was taken in 1963. Since the day is winding it's way down and it being Friday and all I thought this was an appropriate (an beautiful) shot to...

According to the Michigan Apple Committee the Michigan apple crop is expected to be “1/3 or more below average.” April snow, a May freeze, and weather too hot for ideal pollination all co...

August is 2/3s gone and school starts in less than two weeks. Where has the summer gone? Normally at this stage of summer we are enjoying a bumper crop of tomatoes. Not this year. Yeah, my favorite...

Today's salad dressing recipe: A simple vinaigrette made with fresh blueberries. Low carb. Weight Watchers 0 points.How easy is this? Just a big handful of blueberries plus the usual suspects for a vi...

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From the Press Democrat:

Exchange Bank, one of the most visible companies in Sonoma County, is navigating through turbulent times. The Santa Rosa bank has suffered losses in two of the pas...