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Our friend Rebecca forwarded us an email about a benefit this Saturday Morning 29 March 2003 to build a playground in the local North Van French school featuring some French chefs. Check it out and let us know what you think!

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If you love French food and want to taste some of what Vancouver's best French chefs have to offer, you might want to drop by St. Catherine's Anglican Church in Edgemont Village (North Van) this coming Saturday morning.

I was leafing through the latest issue of Canadian House and Home and was delighted to read that Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford will be releasing a new book in the fall called, Home Made: Sweet and Savory Baking from Around the World! Their other books, Seductions of Rice, Flatbreads and Flavours and Hot Sour Salty Sweet, are among my favourite cookbooks.

I went to Blitzen Break last Friday to find out what was happening with their opening hours.

I confirmed that their opening hours have been reduced to Monday-Friday noon-3p.m. That's the bad news. The good news is that they they gave me their Bircher-Muesli recipe.

Check it out! I bet it's awesome! Too bad I didn't get the chance to try it out before they stopped serving it.

To answer my own question that I posed earlier, of course there is good food in Abbotsford!

This weekend at the Lindy Hop Swing (dance) Summit 2003 in Abbotsford, we ate at two good restaurants that served inexpensive and tasty food:

Ryan's Best of British Chef's Table at Dubrulle's Stanley Park Pavilion last Thursday was spot on!

Ukrainian food in Chiliwack at Sherry's Carpathian Kitchen in Chiliwack (#3 - 45835 Airport Road Chilliwack, B.C., 604 792-8073) sounds great! Unfortunately, I think it's too far from Abbotsford to go in between our Lindy Hop workshops. Still looking for good restaurants in Abby! Please let us know if you know of any.

Help! We are going to Abbotsford this weekend for the Lindy Hop Swing Summit. And we are desperately seeking VanEats type restaurants.

You know the type: ethnic, hole in the wall, or offbeat. Even better would be a pointer to a website about food in Abbotsford. Something with soul and passion that's operated by a bunch of foodies.

I walked by Blitzen Break today and was dismayed to find out that they have changed their opening hours to Monday - Friday noon to five p.m.!

Schade! I was really looking forward to having muesli for breakfast there. I'll drop in for lunch soon and get the full scoop.

Steve Burgess of CBC's |> play, linked to our news item on Kintaro Ramen. Thanks!