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The Szechuan pepper truffles at Bad Girls Chocolates sound intriguing! Anybody tried them out? If so, please leave a comment.

According to a flyer I received on my last visit, Guu with Otokomae is giving away two free glasses of champagne if you dine there between December 20 and 26.  I assume this is for evening only and maybe they mean sparkling wine and not real French champagne!  We love their food so much, it wouldn't matter if this was not true, but if you must have free booze,  you might want to call them  at 604 685-8682 to verify.  See you there!

Here's a photo of the flyer:

It's Winter Market time again at the Heritage Hall at 15th and Main.  Like last year, it's from 10a.m.-5p.m. this Saturday and Sunday and it costs $2. 

For more info, check out  Your Local Farmers Market Society 8th Annual Winter Market  page at eatlocal.org.

See you there!

VegEats is a collection of links to vegan and vegetarian restaurants and recipes.  No RSS file to subscribe to so it's hard to keep up with the site but it looks like a great reference.  Check it out.

Barb and I noticed tonight at Choices that Farm Folk/City Folk are selling 2004 calendars.  $1.00 goes to Farm Folk/City folk and it's not just a calendar; it's a veritable treasure trove of info about the BC farmers who feed us.  Check it!

We'll be buying one soon.

Founded way back in 1994, The World-Wide Sushi Restaurant Guide (which I found through Derek Miller's excellent penmachine although I can't find the exact entry) is a compendium of the world's sushi restaurants along with  helpful glossary which has great information about sushi and Japanese food in general .

Barb and I had so much fun at the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinners in 2002 and 2003 that I started a blog about it called GungHaggisFatChoy.com with Toddish McWong, the creative genius behind the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinners.  Check it out!

Via MedMusings, I heard about Debra Weber's French cuisine blog ( RSS file that you can subscribe to).  Lots of great stuff here: e.g.  Apples as appetizer, main course and dessert and Almond and Hazelnut cookies filled with Nutel

A Critic's Coda is a fascinating interview with William Grimes who will step down on December 31st as New York Times food critic.  I love the following quote where he talks about eating four star meals day in and day out:

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 NEWSWEEK: You are leaving the coolest job on the planet.

Greg Baker, webmaster of Bad Girl Chocolates, emailed us that he followed our suggestion and added a Bad Girl Chocolates blog with an RSS feed that you can subscribe to! Of course we subscribed and we recommend that you do too!