Hi ,
How can we all save Vancouver's food scene from dying a slow cold death this winter. Growing up cooking and eating in this city, I've been shaped by its food scene. It's the blood, meat and bones of Vancouver culture and I want to see it live. I don't have all the answers, but for restaurants and food businesses to power through this, we've tried to pivot, re-imagine and simplify to get through. Swallow Tail has moved online with our food
education and will continue to create more outdoor food adventures next year, plus we may create an online cooking series with some of our chefs. You have kept us alive by supporting our crazy ideas, thank you. A lot of restaurants are struggling or closing, especially from our Chinese community. If you love Vancity, and you are still happily employed, keep buying our food:) Here are some tips that would help our community.
- Try to support restaurants by ordering on their websites/online for takeout or meal kits or dine in if you are comfortable with it.
- Tip generously if you can
- Buy from local vendors, cafes and stores rather than big box grocery stores
- Sign up for restaurant newsletters and social media
- Talk to us, tell us how to make you comfortable or safer
- Be kind with your reviews and talk to us directly if you have feedback first
- I was so happy to hear that all patios in the city were approved with heating options for restaurants this winter, please make use of them.
- Honour your restaurant reservations
Amazing restaurants like Ubuntu on Fraser St are selling tons of delicious baked goods and great natural wines and making use of its street patio. All I can say is that I know money is tight, but don't forget us, try and safely support us through takeout, online or by dining out if you are comfortable and just keep listening. We would love to hear your feedback on some new ideas and how Covid is affecting your food life, take the survey to help us
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FAT JACKS
Jacks are one of the most common, plentiful edible mushrooms found in BC. They are often passed over because they have a slimy cap and they weird people out:) But if you peel the cap, it's a delicate lemony tasting mushroom that is best dried or powdered into a mushroom mix for stocks.
WILD MUSHROOM TRIP
Nov 15th - Only a few tickets left
Come out with us this year and learn about edible and poisonous BC mushrooms in North Vancouver with our myco-experts.
Details: $45
Meet up in North Vancouver
ONLINE WILD MUSHROOM FORAGING COURSE
Learn about mushrooms from Chef Robin from the comfort of your own home. She's been putting together videos of her mushroom foraging travels in BC this fall covering matsutake, lobster, chanterelle, shrimp mushroom, comb tooth and 20+ more edible and poisonous Pacific Northwest fungi. To learn how to safely forage this long wet November, check out the course...
SWALLOW TAIL
Online Foraging Education
Virtual Foraging Survial Trip
2 hours with foraging expert Robin Kort
A fun way learn some useful food foraging survival tips in case of emergency covering forest to seashore ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. From sustainable edible wild weeds to nutrient rich plants for survival and beach forage superfoods like
seaweeds and shellfish. Learn about any poisonous plants you should avoid and simple cooking methods for the food you find in this 2 hour video collection. I've been teaching wild foraging classes for over a decade in BC and would love to share my knowledge with you.
FULL FORAGING 101 ONLINE COURSE
If you want more than one class, we have our full foraging 101 online course. In this video collection, I can show you how to safely forage for edible plants and mushrooms in all types of ecosystems; forest, meadow, river and even urban foraging in way more detail ...
MEDICINAL EDIBLES
Online Course with herbalist Lori Snyder
Our online video series featuring two hours with aboriginal herbalist, Lori Snyder, in her garden covering edible medicinal plants both native and invasive. She teaches us that food is our medicine, how to listen and get to know the plants that surround us. Learn how to identify, care for and prepare these powerful plants into simple medicines like edible
tinctures, teas and balms. She'll cover which parts of each plant to use for healing and which to leave for the bees.
GIFT CERTIFICATE
Available in any value. For our wild mushroom trips, sea foraging workshops, secret supper club or any Swallow Tail dinner featuring star chefs from around the city.
Note: a lot of our trips are outside and can be purchased as private tours.
We love our city and making fun food events in it, so see you soon!
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