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taste the world
Taste the delicious culinary corners of the world -- and find the best food in Victoria -- with food + travel writer Cinda Chavich


EASTER EGGS: How to cook & colour a beautiful batch for your basket
Want to celebrate Easter with coloured eggs and a game of "egg knocking"? Here's how to boil eggs and make them beautiful with natural dyes.
Cinda Chavich
Mar 31


BAKING BABKA: The European tradition of sweet Easter breads
Remembering my grandmother and her beautiful Easter breads, with recipes for Ukrainian babka and poppy seed rolls.
Cinda Chavich
Mar 29


SLICE AND DICE: Icebox cookies, from easy bakes to culinary art
Nostalgic and convenient, icebox (a.k.a. refrigerator) cookies are having a modern moment
Cinda Chavich
Nov 1, 2025


HOLIDAY PUMPKIN 2.0: The cat came back as pumpkin gnocchi and more
Don't waste the Hallowe'en pumpkin — try this recipe for pumpkin gnocchi with sage butter and tasty roasted pumpkin seed snacks!
Cinda Chavich
Oct 29, 2025


DISCOVERING HEIRLOOM APPLES: Old varieties growing in our own back yards
We're harvesting heirloom apples around Victoria, and using them in fall recipes, from apple bread pudding and apple kuchen to tarte tatin.
Cinda Chavich
Sep 1, 2025


RECIPES: Picnic recipes for calzones, quinoa salad, brownies and more
Recipes for cold picnic dishes, including hand-held Italian calzones, seafood salad rolls and savoury corn pancakes with smoked salmon
Cinda Chavich
Jul 24, 2025


STICK HANDLING: Souvlaki, kabobs, satay and other stuff on skewers
Summer suppers are fast and easy when you take inspiration from the world's street vendors and grill something on a stick
Cinda Chavich
Jul 11, 2025


STRAWBERRY FIELDS: Strawberry recipes, from trifle and pie to brulee!
If you know, you know — there's nothing as tasty, and hotly anticipated, than those first, sweet, just-picked strawberries from local...
Cinda Chavich
Jul 6, 2025


RHUBARB: Recipes for our tart, pretty and oh-so-Canadian ingredient
Rhubarb is a spring tradition, growing in gardens across Canada, and we have recipes for rhubarb pies, muffins and desserts.
Cinda Chavich
May 14, 2025


ST. PATS FROM ST. PATS: An Irish menu (and recipes) for Saint Patrick's Day
In my house — on a street named for the Irish saint on the emerald isle of Vancouver Island — it's time for a St. Patrick's Day Feast.
Cinda Chavich
Mar 13, 2025
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