You founded EAT Magazine 18 years ago. Give us a glimpse of how you got started in this business and how EAT Magazine came together. I’ve always been a magazine junkie. I would buy every food magazine I could get my hands on, including obscure international ones. Working as a chef and having access to […]
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by Jill Van Gyn – We tend to get overwhelmed with food trends. They come fast and furious and are out as fast as they came in. Staying ahead of the game is work: you need to do your research checking in on blogs and websites out of major hot spots such as L.A, New
Yesterday’s Lunch & Tomorrow’s Dinner: What’s In & What’s Out in Victoria’s Food Scene Read More »
by Rosamond Ricketts, Rozy’s Jams – Back in the day, canning the harvest bounty was a necessary survival mechanism. An enormous fruit and vegetable garden, combined with a housewife who preserved, could make the critical difference to a family during the long harsh winters. Learning preserving was deemed an essential part of a young girl’s
story by Janice Henshaw, photos by www.nuttycake.com – Designing and acting as a contractor for your own home while managing a large farm involves taking on a mountain of extra work. Having built two previous homes though, Linda and her husband David knew what they wanted, and they had a good idea of what
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by Amanda Punch – On the verge of high school graduation, you are constantly burdened with the question “what will you do with your life?” It’s a question that I, like many, lost sleep over. After placing the final brick on a school my classmates and I helped build in Bandipur, Nepal, I found my
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Publisher Sue Hodgson Talks With Local Runner and Aspiring Olympian Casey Atkin – Do you remember the moment when you knew that the Olympics was going to be your lifetime goal? Have you ever wavered or questioned if that was the right decision? The Olympics have always been important to me; they are the biggest
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by Doreen Marion Gee – Our children and youth are fortunate to be on the receiving end of incredible advances in our knowledge of and treatments for mental health problems early in life, plus there is a plethora of educational programs to help families. One very promising direction in mental health is the concept of
Mental Health For Children and Youth: Building Resilience Read More »
by Doreen Marion Gee – SEPTEMBER 4 Sea Shirt Sunday Create your own fishy fashion with a cool ocean-themed T-shirt. Bring a T-shirt or cloth bag or buy a shirt at Centre. 1 to 3 p.m. All ages. Regular admission plus $2 for paint. Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea. www.salishseacentre.org. 250.665.7511. SEPTEMBER 10 Explore
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article by Janice Henshaw, photos by www.nuttycake.com – Upon arriving at the house on Wain Road, Kael Gray rushes out on his trike to tell me that he is four years old, and that he had slept right through a big storm, because his home is so safe. He added: “There was even lightning!” As
Seaside Homes: Concrete Comfort Read More »
by Lara Gladych – Little Piper Bowman’s life started out differently than hoped. On September 8, 2014, she greeted the world prematurely with an array of frightening health conditions that landed her and her family at Vancouver’s Children’s Hospital very shortly after birth. Piper was born with a collapsed lung and acute kidney failure, and
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