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Favourite Recipes from 40 Years at Western Living Magazine    
Top 40: Favourite Recipes from 40 Years at Western Living    

From vintage cookies to a pricey take on Beef Wellington, your favourite recipes from the past 40 years
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Best of Banff Dining
The ultimate cheat sheet on the Banff dining scene
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Recipe: How to Make Handmade Bread
An easy 24-Hour, No-Knead Handmade Bread Recipe makes a perfect host or hostess gift this holiday season

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Hot 6: Crémant
A buying guide to the best bottles of crémant—a festive sparkling wine where value and pedigree finally meet as equals
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Dining in Winnipeg with Iron Chef Rob Feenie
Rob Feenie’s favourite local eateries in Winnipeg


   
Homemade Cranberry Chutney    
Homemade Cranberry Chutney Recipe    

The ease of fresh cranberry chutney
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Easy Holiday Entertaining
Chef Julie Van Rosendaal makes holiday hosting effortless.
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Best Cookbooks
Awesome recipe collections for everyone on your shopping list this season.

 

   
Homemade Lollies    
Homemade Lollipops Recipe    

Making sweet treats from scratch.
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Hot Six: BC's Best New Wineries
Our favourite new Okanagan vineyards.
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Caribbean-Inspired Recipes
Take the flavours of the Caribbean home with these inspired dishes.

 

   

 

 

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My Thai    

Our writer heads into the chaos of Bangkok's Chatuchak market looking for Thai food bliss.
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Tomato Jam
A shortcut to preserving summer's sweet bounty.
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Hot Six
Sure, the economy remains in what can generously be called a "rebuilding" phase, but the tourists are still coming and the restaurant scene in Scottsdale and environs is as vibrant as ever.

   

 

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My Table in Venice    

Our writer revisits a haunt from his past to see if success has spoiled Osteria da Fiore.
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Pickles
Perfect hassle-free refrigerator pickles.

   

 

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Summer(ize) It!    

We unlock the secrets to three classic summer feasts-the seafood boil, the outdoor roast and the paella party-with our foolproof how-to guide.
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Popsicles
The many joys of artisan popsicles.

   

 

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The West’s hottest chefs share their secrets. Learn the tricks your grandma never taught you, from the proper way to peel an avacado to safety etiquette while handling liquid nitrogen.
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Infused Vodka
The exotic appeal of preserved lemons.

   

 

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Here in River City    

There’s no more exciting culinary destination these days than Portland. A local expert gives us the inside dope on the best new restaurants.
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Sour Times
The exotic appeal of preserved lemons.
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Fantasy Island
Tiny Lummi Island makes a play for Culinary big time.

   

 

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Top 40 Foodies Under 40    

It’s our third annual roundup of the best and brighest young chefs, restaurateurs, farmers, bloggers and merchants who help make the West a culinary mecca.
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Salsa Verde
Small-batch production of perfect Salsa Verde

   

 

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Mickey Mouse Cuisine    

From locavore dishes to stellar wine lists, there’s nothing childish about the haute cuisine at Disneyland.
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Seattle Communal Dining
Seattle’s rowdy (and smart) communal dining scene.

   
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Costa Rica Cooking    

The cooking schools found on this Central American paradise are the gateway to this hot new cuisine.
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Havana
A guide to finding Havana’s best restaurants.
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Build your own bar
How to create the perfect home bar.

   

 

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Recipe for Redemption    

Chef Marc Thuet and partner Biana Zorich turn a group of former convicts into a well-oiled restaurant team in Conviction Kitchen.
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Napa Valley
California’s Anderson Valley rocks pinot noir.

   

 

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Eat, Play, Love    

Vikram Vij and Meeru Dhalwala’s new cookbook takes us into their home to see how food soothes and nourishes their lives.
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Best of Victoria
Our resident culinary master seeks out the best of island fare
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Western Sweets
From the Pacific to the prairies, we found lovely (little known) sugar stops.

   

 

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The Slow Hot Summer    

Southern barbeque, with it's long cooking and rich flavours, gets a Western makeover by some local acolytes.
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Macarons
The ethereal world of Macarons.

   

 

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High Altitude Cooking    

A South American pilgrimage to the world’s hottest new food destination: Peru
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Swiss Wine
The surprising world of Swiss wine

   

 

 

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The Salmon Chronicles    

The salmon that lurk off the Queen Charlotte Islands offer adventure on the seas-and in the kitchen.

   

 

 
Spirits   Pizza
Distill it down.  

Where to find the best wood-fired pizza in the west.

 

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Soup's On    

The hot new trend in cooking is the hot old trend in cooking, so fill up the stockpot and simmer away.
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Maui Surf & Turf
Our tasty connection to the best of Maui

   

 

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Gold Standard    

We highlight the recipes that have brought Western chefs the top prizes in the Canadian Culinary Championship.
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Dim Sum Guide
The essential guide to Richmond dim sum.

   

 

   
Daniel Bolud   Cookie Monsters   Umami Tsunami
Legendary chef Daniel Boulud descends on Whistler to create a memorable holiday feast  

We tasted our way through the archives to bring you the very best vintage holiday treats.

 

Chefs in the West ride the wave of the so-called fifth taste, with tantilizing results.

 

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Our Second annual list of the best young talent the West has to offer.

In our second annual listing, meet the new generation of passionate chefs, restaurateurs, food producers, wine and spirits experts and activists who are helping to define and change the way we eat in Western Canada today.

PLUS...Custom Condiments - Hand-made condiments take off

 

   
Napa and the North   Spinning Platters   Red, Red Mountain
Two Western Canadian chefs are helping to define wine-country cuisine in Napa Valley’s most important kitchens  

Dinner just got a whole lot bigger.

 

Red Mountain, the hottest new oenophile destination.

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In our second annual listing, meet the new generation of passionate chefs, restaurateurs, food producers, wine and spirits experts and activists who are helping to define and change the way we eat in Western Canada today.

 

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