Up in Ontario

BC Book and Magazine Week is on!

I'm a little late to the party, but showing up with enthusiasm. Starting this past Saturday it's been BC Book and Magazine Week!

So what does that mean?

Events. Tons of them. In Vancouver, Victoria, all over the province.

One of the events I wanted to make it to but didn't manage to because I had a friend in town for the weekend for fun and a viewing of his new son, Max, was the North by Northwest Cooking Club. Hosting the event were Dolly and Annie Watts of the Liliget Feast House, a 'First Nations fine dining restaurant specializing in wild game and seafood.'

I'm interested in finding out more about local traditions of food preparation and preservation. I hear a ton of talk about local eating (say, within the confines of a 100-Mile Diet) but no talk about local food practices. The way we treat and cook food descends almost exclusively from French and Italian traditions, except for what we consider 'ethnic food' -- Thai, Chinese, Indian, etc. I want to explore local eating in full scope.

I don't know how I'm going to do that, but desire and awareness blended must be the first steps in the recipe. I'm open to suggestions too. Hint, hint to anyone out there with a clue.

But no matter where you want to learn about food from, make sure to consider adding some of the BC Book and Magazine Week events to your calendar.

Disclosure: last year I helped out on BC Book and Magazine week as a client of Work Industries, though I'm under no such lucrative arrangement this time.