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Hmmmm. What do you think? I think this is a whole culture shift that won't fly in North America! I got along just fine without tipping in Germany (ok, well you round up a Euro or two or three or four or five but you certainly don't add 10-20%!) to the point where I had a hard time re-adjusting after 3.5 years there!

From Tipped Off - New York Times.:

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(Via email) This sounds great! Calling all Filipino bloggers, foodies or not! Read the whole thing and help celebrate freedom on the occasion of Ninoy Aquino's 22nd death anniversary!

From stefoodie.net: Launching Lasang Pinoy on Ninoy Aquino Day.:

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Inspired by American Pie Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads, Mel is looking for great tasting pies in Vancouver. Of course, SaabKen has already chimed in (thanks!). Anybody else?

The perfect Gin and Tonic comes to us courtesy of Lauren's friend Sally. Check it out!

Noriko Takiguchi's How To Eat Sushi is an excellent guide. Very traditionalist but open minded. Check it!

Barb and I attended the Slow Food Vancouver Tomato potluck at Granville Island tonight. It was my first Slow Food potluck and it was fabulous just like Barb said it would be. It's worth joining just to join in and eat and bring food to one of these fab potlucks!

Slow Food Vancouver is holding its 3rd annual tomato potluck picnic on August 9th.  Join the local convivium for an evening of tasty tomato dishes and good cheer!

Just to set the record straight (an article in the Edmonton Journal - link broken due to Canada.com not caring about being an authority on the web - said that lex culinaria is the only food blog in Western Canada), VanEats was the first foodblog in Vancouver (it started in June 2000 unlike lex culinaria which started in 2004) and probably Western Canada. Being first doesn't really matter though.

At yesterday's WaiterBlog dinner at Fiction, I was lucky enough to sit with the crazy fun Andrew "Mr. WaiterBlog" Morrison and "Chambar" Mark and other cool people.