All You Can Eat Podcast

On this episode of All You Can Eat I welcomed Calgary cookbook author Cinda Chavich to my test kitchen. We chatted and I cooked a couple of dishes from her latest book, The Guy Can't Cook, a super collection of recipes that even the most challenged of cooks can handle. To listen to the podcast, click here . During the podcast you will hear details of how you can win a copy of Cinda's book! And to see some more photos of the dishes we cooked, you can view an album on my Facebook page. To save money on your website needs, check out www.godaddy.com. When you finish shopping, enter code eat3 for savings.

This week on All You Can Eat meet Andrea Nguyen, author of Into The Vietnamese Kitchen. She demystifies the home-cooking aspects of this fresh and vibrant cuisine. You can visit her website here. Andrea's cookbook is a great place to get started on making your own Vietnamese cuisine at home. If you follow this link to purchase the book through amazon.ca, you'll save over $16.00 off the cover price. Last night I made a couple of dishes from her book, and they both turned out in an amazing fashion. I wanted to keep some for leftovers, and had to battle my wife Ramona to keep her from gobbling down the entire serving of this cucumber salad. Here is the recipe , courtesy of Andrea Nguyen, which will open as a Word document.The other recipe I made was for grilled boneless chicken thighs, which were delicious in their simplicity with a marinade consisting of oil, lime juice, fish sauce and lots and lots of black pepper. You then make a fresh dipping sauce at the table in individual dishes using wedges of lime, salt, pepper and hot chili peppers. Here's the recipe. Don't forget, if you need an internet hosting company for your website, or many other web services, visit www.godaddy.com. When shopping enter the code eat1 to save!

This edition of All You Can Eat is all about Sustainable Seafood. In this show you will hear 2 documentaries. One is about Red Fish, Blue Fish, a great new take out fish and chips and more place on the Victoria, BC waterfront. You can get all the info on Red Fish, Blue fish by going to this blog entry for the documentary. The picture at right shows some of the most delicious anchovies I have ever eaten at Slow Fish in Genova earlier this year. You can see the blog entry for Slow Fish here . As you will hear in the podcast, it was weird to go to a city and see your last name plastered everywhere! But the Italian pronunciation is different from the way we say it here in Canada, where we put the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first, like they do in Italy. On the above blog entry, you will also find many links to websites concerning sustainable seafood. Someone else I met and interviewed was Anne Mosness , from Bellingham, Washington. She fished in the Gulf of Alaska for 28 years, now is part of the Go Wild Campaign and was also distributing some fact sheets from the Food and Water Watch . And for a great book that lays out all the pros and cons about the salmon farming industry, check out Peter A. Robson's Salmon Farming, the Whole Story.

I haven't produced a podcast since May of this year. I was very busy attending a Masters of Food Culture Course at the University of Gastronomic Sciences near Parma, Italy. But now I'm back in Canada, and will be producing podcasts every week. In this podcasts I offer highlights of my last few months in Europe, as previously broadcast on my Food For Thought program on CBC Radio. For more details, go to my website, www.dongenova.com.

The days that you hear about in the documentary parts of the show are prime examples of the kind of culinary tourism Kostas Bouyouris wants to bring to Crete. Kostas is an agronomist who is also involved with a Soil Health association and culinary tourism. He was with our class for the entire week and really gave us an authentic taste of Cretan life, not just through the food, but the music, art and above all, the people. If you are interested in reading more about what Kostas is involved in, visit the Mediterranean Association for Soil Health website. Much of the English side of the site is under construction, but there is an email address to contact for further information. For culinary tourism on Crete, which I highly recommend you experience at some point in your life, visit the Agrion Terra website. SPECIAL BONUS FEATURE!!! My classmate Marta loves taking portraits, both posed and candid of all of us when we are on our field trips, or 'stages' as they are known in our program. I downloaded some software called Photoshow which allows you to mix music and photos together with some special effects, and so I sifted through all the photos and put together "Classic Crete" . It is a .wmv file and hopefully it will just start playing in whatever player you have on your computer once enough of it has downloaded. The file is about 50 megabytes. Enjoy!All You Can Eat is brought to you in part by GoDaddy.com, a domain and webhosting company. And to take advantage of GoDaddy.com offers such as 10 percent off any order, use this code when you check out: eat3

The 100-Mile Diet , a Year of Local Eating, is a book by James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, based on their experience from March 2005 to March 2006 of eating only ingredients produced or procured within 100 miles of their homes in downtown Vancouver. You can click on the link above to order the book from amazon.ca and save 37 percent off the cover price! You can also learn more about their experiences by visiting the 100-Mile Diet website. All You Can Eat is brought to you in part by Go Daddy.com. And to take advantage of GoDaddy.com offers such as 10 percent off any order, use this code when you check out: eat1

This show takes you to a 500-year old olive grove in Puglia, southern Italy. Before you get there I'll tell you about the origins of the tarantella, take you to a fish market on the docks of Brindisi. Oh, and did I mention the more than 500-year old olive oil mill you'll hear about? Be sure to visit my blog posting for this episode for photo albums and video. http://blog.dongenova.com/2007/03/all_you_can_eat_2.html And you'll hear some pieces from my archives, on an olive oil grove on Pender Island, British Columbia, food safety and the battle against childhood obesity. Thanks to my sponsors for this week, Folgers Gourmet Selections and GoDaddy.com. For free samples of Folgers Gourmet Selections coffee, visit www.folgers.com/podshow . While quantities last, act soon! And to take advantage of GoDaddy.com offers such as 10 percent off any order, use this code when you check out: eat1

In this show you find out why manufacturers are moving toward putting more wines in tetra-pak boxes and you'll meet award-winning wine writer Natalie Maclean for tips on how to make your way through a wine shop without getting overwhelmed. Natalie also talks about her first book, Red and White and Drunk All Over, and I tell you about a neat way to do a blind-tasting of wine that not only tests your perceptions of wine, but how others perceive your perceptions!You can find the directions about how to do the blind tasting as well as info on Tetra-Pak wines and Natalie Maclean by going to my blog at blog.dongenova.com and clicking on the My Podcast Category.Thanks to my sponsors for this week, Folgers Gourmet Selections and GoDaddy.com. For free samples of Folgers Gourmet Selections coffee, visit www.folgers.com/podshow. While quantities last, act soon!And to take advantage of GoDaddy.com offers such as 10 percent off any order, use this code when you check out: eat1

In this episode I talk with a panel of home economics teachers about what they think high school kids should learn about food and nutrition, and then see how some elementary school children are getting a head start. I also mention my recent trips to Venice and Milan and you can see restaurant info, some scenic shots, food shots and links on my blog, blog.dongenova.com. Just look under the 'My Podcast' category.Sponsors for this week's podcast include Folgers Gourmet Selections and GoDaddy.com:For free samples of Folgers Gourmet Selections coffee, visit www.folgers.com/podshow. While quantities last, act soon!And to take advantage of GoDaddy.com offers such as 10 percent off any order, use this code when you check out: eat1

I am pleased to have three sponsors on my podcast this week, Folgers Coffee, Barilla Pasta, and web services provider GoDaddy.com. To download the free cookbook I mentioned from Barilla, go to www.pastaloverscookbook.com.For free samples of Folgers Gourmet Selections coffee, visit www.folgers.com/podshow. While quantities last, act soon!And to take advantage of GoDaddy.com offers such as 10 percent off any order, use this code when you check out: eat1

For more information on the people and processes mentioned in this show, go to my podcast index on my blog, http://blog.dongenova.com. To download the free cookbook I mentioned from Barilla, go to www.pastaloverscookbook.com.For free samples of Folgers Gourmet Selections coffee, visit www.folgers.com/podshow. While quantities last, act soon!And to take advantage of GoDaddy.com offers such as 10 percent off any order, use this code when you check out: eat1

For photos and information about this episode and other podcasts, visit my blog.You can learn more about British Columbia oysters and other shellfish by visiting the BC Shellfish Growers Association.

For photos and recipes from this episode, check out the blog entries on Christmas In Rome, and Ingredients 2007 under this blog index: http://blog.dongenova.com/food_for_thought/index.html

You can find full notes for this show at www.dongenova.com. Once you're there, just click on My Blog and look for the post headed 'All You Can Eat Volume 27'.

Meet three researchers from the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/