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Fascinating article on kitchen layouts in French restaurants which have influenced restaurants worldwide including Vancouver. From la marche en avant:

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Barb and I tried the Peanut Butter Chocolate Mousse cake at Trafalgars (2603 West 16th Avenue 604 739-0555)at Sweet Obsession yesterday and we loved it. A nice balance between the chocolate and peanut butter flavours without one dominating the other. Recommended! Worth the money at $7 a slice.

Gung Haggis Fat Choy (combo Scottish Robbie Burns and Chinese New Year dinner) tickets are $50/person or $500 for a table of 10 until January 23. Tickets will be $60/person at the door on the day of the dinners. This year, there are two dinners one on January 24 and another on January 25. The menu sounds gorgeous!

(Via megnut) - Chocolate and Zucchini is a food weblog written by a software engineer in France who wants to work full time in the food business one day.  My favourite section is the Chocolate Is My Friend category but it's all good and it's illustrated with sumptuous photography.

(via Ben Hammersley) - SushiFinder.com is a fun site to help you find sushi restaurants in various cities in the USA like Seattle and San Francisco.  They have an excellent philosophy: "It's not about business plans, ROI's, or free soda in the fridge. Produced in the off-hours and sometimes when the boss isn't hovering, SushiFinder is an oasis from our real jobs.

(via email from Simon) - I like Bramley apples and this Bramley Apple website is fun.  Did you know Bramleys are the best for cooking and that Bramley Apples are named after Matthew Bramley, a butcher?  Now you do.

All this site needs is an RSS file so I can subscribe to its updates.

I like HalfAGlass's approach to wine.  It's down to earth and their manifesto rocks! Especially 9 and 10: "Taste with your own tongue", and "Drink".  Looking forward to checking out their book too.

And they have a frequently updated blog which is informative, timely and fun.

Jane Mundy writes (the HTML of her original post got garbled so I am transcribing it here).  Please note that the page entitled Oppenheimer Park in the quoted part below is out of date (Jane needs a blog!) so here are the details for 2003:

To help with food on the day:

Date: Saturday December 20th, 2003
Place: Oppenheimer Park, West Side (Cordova St. & Dunlevy Avenue)

I just got a job at a new blogging company called StreamLine.  If you or your organization are interested in  blogs, RSS or social software, please contact StreamLine by calling me at 604 729 7924 or emailing roland AT rolandtanglao.com

Back to normal VanEats programming!

Enter  Don Genova's First Annual Christmas Cookbook Contest on his blog and you could win 7 cookbooks worth almost $250. All you have to do is leave a comment with your favourite cookbook, why it is your favourite and your email address before December 21st at midnight, Pacific time.