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After lining up in the rain (under an awning, thankfully), I got a chance to meet Jamie Oliver at his booksigning! He seems as genuine, friendly and fun as he appears on his show...no primadonna attitude. How refreshing!

I managed to slip him a VanEats business card and hopefully he'll check us out. Here are some photos of the event.

By the way, he isn't able to come over for a homecooked meal. Oh well!

Excellent site on Japanese Cuisine Basic Techniques (via Saute Wednesday).  My favourite is the vegetable cutting page.  Check it out!

Lee Murphy of Vista D'oro (604 514-3539) sent us an email several weeks back about the cooking classes at their Bed & Breakfast in Langely.  Lee writes:

On October 22, Jamie Oliver is coming to Chapters for a book signing session for his latest book, Jamie's Kitchen. I will be there with the other Naked Chef fans vying for an autographed copy of his book and a chat!

On a lark, we sent him an e-mail to invite him over for a homecooked meal.

The UBC Apple Festival is this Saturday and Sunday 18-19 October from 11a.m.-4p.m. Like last year, the cost is $2 for unlimited apple tasting and other treats and there will be lots of rare and exotic apples for sale as well as games and face painting for  kids.  See you there!

A week or so ago, we posted  about the public restaurant review guide, addyourown, that anybody could add their own restaurant review to.  Well, we are pleased to announce that addyourown Vancouver is now up and running.  All the credit is due to Mark Hurst, the brain behind the idea.  We, together with Caterina and Stewart, just helped with the names of the dining distri

Naomi Duguid, who together with Jeff Alford, wrote one of our favourite cookbooks,  Hot Sour Salty Sweet, will be giving a  class (Warning: link rot!

Barb and I celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday as usual with her delicious Roast Turkey.  We have much to be thankful for.  We are incredibly thankful to the readers of VanEats for sharing their food experiences with us!

Local Flavour is a new Vancouver food magazine.  They have a cool website that is running on a blog like system.  The only thing missing is an RSS feed that I can subscribe to.  I am sure they will add one soon.

Way back in June we speculated about the Salty Tongue Urban Deli (213 Carrall Street, 604 915-7258).

It's been open for eight weeks.  How did I miss it?

I spoke briefly with one of the owners and she talked about their neighbourhood focused approach.  Right now they are bringing in cheese from Les Amis du Fromage as well as bread from other local suppliers and they are serving deli sandwiches.