Journalism
Ya Gotta Believe
Thoughts on sports and religion. This piece ran in 18 Bridges a number of years back.
Read MoreThe Polygon Gallery by Patkau Architects
A review of the new Polygon Gallery for Azure Magazine
Read MoreHow to Cook Very Difficult Food
For Cooking Light Magazine It was while I was attempting to make “soil” that it occurred to me that my experiment with very difficult dinners might drive me insane. This is edible soil, from the cookbook by René Redzepi, chef at the world’s most buzzy restaurant, Noma, in Copenhagen. Noma’s soil is sprinkled on a…
Read MoreCrypto Kingpin
Talking BTC with Lloydminster Saskatechewan’s most famous son.
Read MoreAnna Lena
When Chef Michael Robbins auditioned for Top Chef Canada, he stressed in his audition video that he was an “extremely competitive person”, like a promise of what might come. All the more painful an irony that he ended up cut first, before even preparing a complete dish. That was a loss for the judges and show.…
Read MoreChicha
Continuing with my repost of restaurant reviews written for my friends at Vancouver Magazine… I confess that I’m torn about posting the bad ones. There have been a few. But I don’t know many food writers who enjoy speaking poorly of a place. And if you have to – because a place is pretentious or…
Read MoreThe Farmer’s Apprentice
I started as Food Critic over at VanMag last year. I’ll be posting my reviews here periodically after they’re published. Chef David Gunawan’s restaurant Farmer’s Apprentice was my first assignment on the job. He captures perfectly the inversion of culinary values in the foodie west over the course of the past 30 years or so.…
Read MoreHappy Returns
Why you should look forward to tax time
Read MoreZahed Haftlang’s Big Idea
The first time I met Zahed Haftlang was over two years ago, in connection with an article I wrote for Vancouver Magazine called Blood Brothers. That story was one of hope and determination. An Iranian boy soldier during the Iran-Iraq War, Haftlang saved the life of an Iraqi soldier, Nadjah Aboud, on the battlefield. Twenty years…
Read MoreThe Way Things Are: Fred Herzog’s Art of Observation
First published in Canadian Art Winter 2013 By Timothy Taylor At 82 years of age, photographer Fred Herzog doesn’t move quite as quickly as he used to. But then, few people ever did. In his younger days, Herzog was the kind of guy who’d jump on his Norton motorcycle after lunch and ride back roads…
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