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Where’s the local food in the supermarket?

Leslie Javorski — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 01:21:16 +0000

You want to know why you don't see much local food in the supermarket? Supermarkets want volume. Lots and lots of it.

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Börek – a Turkish version of rolled & filled pastry

Leslie Javorski — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 21:37:37 +0000

A recipe for Turkish börek, savoury pastries using yufka.

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How to Eat Local

Leslie Javorski — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 20:00:19 +0000

I was asking Langley berry farmer, Rhonda Driediger about her customer’s enthusiasm. She laughed, “when it’s winter, people ask when the strawberries are coming. As soon as they’re out, they ask about raspberries. When they show up, everyone wants to know about blueberries.” What’s the rush? Our season is already so quick. We live where the sun isn’t warm... Read more »

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Hop On Farms

Leslie Javorski — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 19:40:04 +0000

Amazing what we have in our city. Long before there were farmer's markets Burnaby has had commercial market gardens selling local seasonal produce.

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BC Peaches

Leslie Javorski — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 18:27:59 +0000

Say goodbye until next year. The end of the peach season is here. I can tell because the texture changes and they are less juicy. The clarity of the flesh changes to milky, and worse, mealy if they’re cold-stored too long. Yet, I am suckered every year when I see peaches on the produce stand... Read more »

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Bowl of BC Cherries

Leslie Javorski — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 20:07:18 +0000

There’s some debate whether the phrase, life is like a bowl of cherries, first appeared in a song or the phrase inspired the late 1920s song. It’s American and implies that life is pretty great. Except when it’s not. As in, life is not a bowl of cherries, which a complaining sort of person might have been told before the less... Read more »

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International Sausage House

Leslie Javorski — Tue, 06 May 2014 19:08:50 +0000

I wonder, do the guys at International Sausage know that bacon is the flavour of the decade? Would they care if they did? They’ve been making bacon and smoked sausage for years. The staff wear lab coats not aprons, a clear sign to me that it’s European. I like this tradition; it suggests commitment to the... Read more »

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Shameful Hot Cross Buns

Leslie Javorski — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:11:19 +0000

It’s the season of the Hot Cross Bun, at least for Christian types. I’ve noticed over the last six or seven years a number of Vancouver bakeries proclaiming their HCBs to be the best. Maybe. The bun has suffered at the hands of mass production and in need of chest beating but I’m holding fast... Read more »

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The Missing Link

Leslie Javorski — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:38:43 +0000

The sausage roll, like so much baking, is in the hands of a new generation who wish to make a baking statement in what I like to call the Canadian farm grandma style. It’s a romantic one with coffee cakes, pies, sticky buns, and sausage rolls. I’m glad we’re having this revival even if the bakers,... Read more »

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