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Dine Around and Stay In TownDate: February 21 - March 9
City: Victoria Website: www.tourismvictoria.com |
Tourism Victoria and the BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association, Victoria Branch (BCRFA) are pleased to announced the dates of our 5th annual Dine Around Town & Stay in Town Victoria. For 2008 we estimate over 50 participating restaurants will offer 3 course menus costing $15, $25, $35 dollars per person. Offering outstanding value to customers will allow our restaurant members to entice locals and visitors alike to Dine Around and dine around often during this 18 day event. Victoria boasts the second highest number of restaurants per capita in North America and offers everything from casual cafes, to family restaurants, to fine dining. Foodies do not need to go to Europe to have a culinary vacation. Victoria and Vancouver Island have it all – fresh seafood, pasture raised meats, artisan cheeses, outstanding organic produce and wild foods from the forest. Local chefs and residents alike support the farmers on the Saanich Peninsula and Cowichan Valley who produce such high quality foods. Visitors can experience the Island’s bounty in many of Victoria’s restaurants, but local markets are also an entertaining way to get a taste of Victoria. |
Grassroot Solutions Workshop
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Sharon Rempel is an organic food educator and agritourism pioneer with a vision - allowing heritage varieties of crops that are adapted to survive in a diversity of changes in weather, soils and climates to feed us. She's worked for twenty years with heritage wheat, especially 'Red Fife', Canada's oldest variety dating back to the 1840s and has grown a Canada wide movement that links growers of 'low input' wheat to bakeries and food specialists who value 'farmer' and 'variety' identified products. The 'story' is a part of the 'value' of the crop, as well as the 'carbon credits' and the 'local food' value put on products by consumers. The added 'plus' is the expansion of agricultural biodiversity in food fields and less reliance on high input agronomic crops. Sharon recently hosted Canada's first 'Bread and Wheat' Festival in Victoria; the event drew 800 people. Eating locally is about having the opportunity to see your food, meet the grower, ask questions about handling and food safety and quality and keeping the profits in the community. It's not only old fashioned but sound economically, ecologically, socially and keeps land growing food (hopefully). Interested in knowing more about growing grains? Sharon is teaching a one day workshop in Victoria March 3… visit www.grassrootsolutions.com and go to workshops for more details. $50 – a bargain and something you probably can't afford to miss if you are interested in food security issues. The price of grain tripled the past year and with futures projecting even higher prices, communities have to consider grains in their fields. |
Taste of KelownaDate: Sunday, March 30, 2008
City: Kelowna |
The BC Restaurant & Foodservices Association (BCRFA) is holding the 19th annual Taste of Kelowna food fair on Sunday March 30th at the Kelowna Curling Club, 551 Recreation Avenue (just left off Richter Street in the north end of town). Tastings are from Kelowna’s finest restaurants, wineries and breweries and offer more than 100 delicious dishes from 40 booths including appetizers, entrees, desserts, wines, beers and great non-alcoholic drinks. This is the biggest food fair in B.C’.s interior, Proceeds to Kids Care and the Kelowna Food Bank. |
