HIT THE BOOKS: A new season of learning with the latest cookbooks
Back to school means back to the books, and I have a crop of inspirational new titles and recipes for creative cooks. By CINDA CHAVICH...
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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
Cinda Chavich
- Jul 22
PRESERVING SUMMER: How to turn beach bull kelp into tasty sweet pickles
Seaweed is a wild food that's been consumed for centuries. Here's how to turn bull kelp into tasty sweet pickles.
Cinda Chavich
- Jun 24
THE BEACHCOMBERS: Exotic edibles galore at low tide in Tofino
The road to Tofino has reopened after recent closures due to forest fires — time to visit the wild beaches to photograph, forage and feast.
Cinda Chavich
- Aug 19, 2022
RECIPES: Wild Blackberry bars, jam, cocktails and other delicious diversions
Recipes for making jam, cheesecake, squares and cocktails with wild blackberries.
Cinda Chavich
- Aug 19, 2022
WILD BLACKBERRIES: Why we love this tasty but invasive coastal plant
Love them or hate them, wild Himalayan blackberries are part of the west coast landscape and a food delicious for free foraging in BC.
Cinda Chavich
- May 20, 2022
TRAVEL: Foraging for fiddleheads in Fredericton
Fiddleheads are a spring delicacy across Canada and finding wild fiddleheads in New Brunswick is a passion for many foragers.
Cinda Chavich
- Apr 10, 2022
INGREDIENT: Foraging spruce tips in spring
Add some wild Canadian flavour to your food with the citrusy new growth of spruce and fir trees, foraged in the coastal forests in spring.
Cinda Chavich
- Apr 6, 2022
DIG DEEP: IN SEARCH OF THE ELUSIVE WEST COAST CLAM
I trek out to a rocky beach on Vancouver Island to dig for a dinner of littleneck clams, and unearth the history of this indigenous feast.
Cinda Chavich
- Apr 6, 2022
Marvelous mushrooms: wild local food
Head out into BC forests to forage for wild mushrooms with an expert or grow a crop of beautiful oyster mushrooms with a kit at home.
Cinda Chavich
- Mar 2, 2022
INGREDIENTS: Nettles to forage in spring
Head to the forest to harvest young stinging nettles in the spring, you will be rewarded with a healthy and tasty treat!
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