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EDMONTON: Culina redux

No visit to Edmonton is complete for us without brunch at Culina. The Sunday menu is smaller and slightly different than its signature Saturday brunch menu, but both still have my beloved bacon and eggs ($15).

I can try to pretend I’ll order something else, but I rarely do. The slow braised “bacon” is to [...]

CALGARY: Prorogued = perogies

It started off as a joke. But the more times we heard and saw the word “prorogue” this morning — and believe me that’s a lot in a newsroom — the more we envisioned a warm, solid plate of perogies for lunch as the country falls apart around us.

Or as Perez Hilton calls it, [...]

EDMONTON: Hangin’ on the back bacon

UPDATE: Bacon closed as of September 2008. Original co-owner Cindy Lazarenko has reopened it as Culina Highlands and has taken over the helm as chef. The venture is shared with new partners, who are her husband, Geoff Lilge, and her brother, Brad Lazarenko, who owns the original Culina in Mill Creek.

It’s hard for me to [...]

EDMONTON: Screwless cabbage rolls

The first time I ever tried Ukrainian food was in a cafeteria in Regina, Saskatchewan. I found a screw in my cabbage roll. Not baba’s original recipe, I’m guessing.

Fast forward to Taste of Ukraine in Edmonton, heartland of proud Ukrainian-Canadians and mere kilometres from the world’s biggest pysanka.

Now THIS was real Ukrainian food. I know [...]