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Foodie Website of the Day: Voltaggio Brothers.com

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

If you watched (or knew someone who watched) Top Chef Las Vegas, you already know who Bryan and Michael Voltaggio are.

The chef brothers, both in their early 30s, battered and deep fried their competition on the reality TV cooking show with innovative cooking techniques and killer flavour profiles and ended up placing a well deserved 1st (Michael) and 2nd place (Bryan). I wanted to eat each and every thing those two made and was depressed when the season ended and I didn’t get my weekly serving of Voltaggio. (more…)

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Vancouver Island is a Place to Visit in 2010 – NY Times

Monday, January 18th, 2010

On January 10th The New York Times published their 31 places to go in 2010 and Vancouver Island ranked 25th in the world (in between Montenegro and Columbia).

This is yet another great recognition for Vancouver Island, who held the Conde Nast Traveler’s Top North American Island award for nine consecutive years before falling to #2 in 2009. The NY Times focuses on VI’s spectacular west coast hiking trails as a great reason to visit. (more…)

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Close to home – Getting to know Vancouver Island

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Over the next few months I`ll be focusing my travel and food posts on everything that there is to love about Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Vancouver Island is a long, narrow island running along side the southern edge of the British Columbia coast, and lives up to BC`s charmingly cocky slogan `The Best Place on Earth`. From the warmest ocean swimming in Canada (and north of California) right here in my home town of Parksville to the incredibly rugged and stunning West Coast Trail along the Pacific Ocean at the very edge of Canada, it`s almost ridiculously beautiful here year-round. (more…)

Tags: parksville, resorts, restaurants, spas, Vancouver Island, west coast
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Foodie Website of the Day – Roadfood.com

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

For someone who has been on countless road trips through my life, and eaten road food from terrible (rock hard biscuits and terrifyingly grey gravy) to sublime (the absolute perfect BBQ ribs), Roadfood.com is a revelation.

The website features restaurant reviews of good, bad, but mostly great road food all across America, with a few Canadian locations popping up occasionally. There are frequent great close-up photos of the food accompanying reviews, increasing the drool factor while reading. (more…)

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• I’m back!
• Lost a computer this month, and all the data. Thankfully back online now and firing on all cyber cylinders. Looking forward to visiting Tofino in the next month for some west coast storm watching. I’ll report back soon!
• Wild Chanterelle hunting on Vancouver Island
• I spent a great Sunday afternoon hiking through the wet green forests of Central Vancouver Island in search of Wild Chanterelle mushrooms. The fall rainy season has begun on the Island, which means mushroom season has also begun. As you can see from the photos below, there’s lots to see on the forest floor right
• Thoughts on the cougar shot near Parksville Beach
• I was on my way down to Parksville Beach on Saturday morning for an annual beach volleyball tournament when I abruptly came across a roadblock on the highway. I didn’t think much of it until I saw that the RCMP Officer blocking the road was holding a huge shotgun and there were sounds of shots
• Dog days of summer at See Ya Later Ranch Winery
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