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Cooking for Engineers has a very cool (albeit somewhat geeky) visual way of diagramming recipes. Check it out.

[ROLAND's NOTE: Thanks J! Full info on this event can be found at Urban Vancouver and in the Delta Optimist:Feast of Fields returns for a second year at Westham Island Herb Farm. If anybody goes to Feast of Fields, please let us know how you liked it!]

Hi Roland, as a long time reader of your fantasic review blog I'd like to forward on the following regarding a wandering picnic this Sunday.

I am not a coffee geek, but I have finally found an espresso that's not bitter!

Check out my story on Vietnamese iced coffee. It's a good thing Au Petit Cafe (must do a full mini-review soon!) is not close to where I work or live or I would become totally addicted to the wonderful sweet, strong, Vietnamese iced coffee there as well as their excellent subs and Vietnamese food!

The 8-Day Basics Cooking Series for "serious foodies" at the Northwest Culinary Academy of Vancouver (6:15p.m.-9:45p.m., Mondays starting September 20, $695) sounds like an excellent way for passionate home chefs to hone their technique. Thanks to Kirsten and Saab Ken for pointing it out.

Don't forget you can get heirloom tomatoes as well as other locally grown produce from the Granville Island Farmers' Truck Market every Thursday (thanks to Dylan for reminding us).

Speaking of real tomatoes, such as the heirloom tomatoes from yesterday's post, the Tomato Festival starts next Wednesday September 8th at the Nat Bailey Farmers' Market and continues Saturday September 11th (8 days from now) at the East Van and West End Farmers' Markets. Check it out.

It's prime heirloom tomato season. Get the real tomato flavour experience now! The flavour is so good that you won't want to eat those plastic tomatoes that we get the rest of the year. The above tomatoes came from the wonderful Nat Bailey Farmers' Market.