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RICHMOND: Grilled bombs

Vancouver-area food bloggers are all abuzz about a Japanese food truck that does business in an empty Richmond parking lot. It sounded right up my alley!

On an overcast summer day, I circled Westminster Highway, Alderbridge Way and Gilbert Road twice before I found Tenku Bakudanyaki across the street from an ICBC and next to [...]

July 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Eating / Food, Vancouver | 5 comments

Eat real, eat local

Disclosure: I was invited to a food bloggers’ event and focus group-type sessions in Toronto last week by a marketing company representing Hellmann’s. They paid for all expenses, including airfare, hotel and meals, over one weekend. There was no obligation or contract required of me to write about it.

There we were, eight food bloggers [...]

May 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Eating / Food, Misc. | 20 comments

Food in the mail

I’ve been getting food in the mail from marketing companies. I think they’re targetting food blogs to get their products some more exposure. I don’t hope to make this a habit but if they’re going to spend the postage, I figure the least I can do is try it.

The first package I got was [...]

September 2nd, 2007 | Tags: , , , | Category: Eating / Food, Misc., Product reviews | One comment