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To follow up our previous item about Rebecca Blood linking to us, here are some more blogs about food that Rebecca found:

• The delightful Gohan Taberu about cooking in Tokyo complete with delicious sounding recipes and great anecdotes about her husband's cooking class and life in Japan
• f**kcorporategrocieres.net which apart from its silly name has some decent looking recipes and a great philosophy, eat cheap and local (in this case Chicago)

Haggis is one of those foods I've always wanted to try but never got around to trying. Partially because I don't have any close friends who are Scottish that practise the custom but mostly because few of my friends are adventurous enough to go out and try it. In most cases, Robbie Burns day would come and go and I'd read about the haggis as an after thought.

Gung Haggis Fat Choy was a blast! Check out our full Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2002 Report! Here's the songsheet (which contained Scotish and Chinese songs naturally!)

The Food and Service Resource Group provides lifesksills and food industry training ranging to youth and adults who do not have the resources or means for attaining training.

The food timeline is a fascinating window into history of food. For example, tomatoes were not used in Europe until 1544.

The accompanying culinary timeline is also very cool.

Please check both out for more fascinating food facts!

The Gung Haggis Fat Choy / Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner that we mentioned on the 16th was the subject of a hilarious column by Pete McMartin in today's Vancouver Sun. Check it out for more background on the event. Please note that we were slightly incorrect in our last newsitem; there's no need to phone for advance tickets.

Dee Hobsbawn-Smith's Twelve steps to carefree cooking are right on! Especially the ones about buying the best, trusting your taste buds and thinking! Check it out!

Our friend, Walter, sent us an email about an interesting upcoming fusion Gung Haggis Fat Choy / A Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner at Spicy Court, one of our favourite Chinese restaurants.

Here's an excerpt from the email. All the links except the last one (to the review of last year's event) were added by myself.
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January 27th, Sunday, 5pm
Spicy Court Chinese Restaurant, 5638 Cambie St. Vancouver.

Barb and I were walking down West Broadway today to do some shopping and bought some excellent Rooibos Tea from Herbal Republic (link doesn't work in Mozilla only IE, 2680 West Broadway, telephone 604 732-1732) . It has hints of chocolate, lemon and lemon grass and has minimal caffeine! Highly recommended!

One of our members, Sara, emailed us wanting to know about the dates for this year's wine festival.

I am not sure which wine festival she meant, but I did find out about the BC Wine and Oyster Festival through the Heart of Wine Website.

The festival does not appear to have a website (at least I couldn't find it). The link above is to the Heart of Wine website's news item about the festival.