- by Mijune Pak , Follow Me Foodie – WE Vancouver
- posted Dec 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM
It’s the last article of the year. Oh, the pressure. How do I sum it all up?
Highlight the restaurants that opened? Or mourn the restaurants that closed? Talk about the year’s most overdone food trends, such as mash-ups like the Cronut© or Ramen Burger? Or address the most over used culinary words of this year?
Hello “farm-to-table”, “artisan”, “hand-crafted”, “small-batch”, “foraging”, and “eat local”. I use all these words, too, and some do their subject justice, but much of it has become culinary “greenwashing”. I say, “Baloney!” No, not the lunch meat, but bull shhhh… Phew… Deep breath.
Okay, I don’t want to end the year on a bad note, so how about a Christmas carol from yours truly? Although, I can’t promise my singing is great.
Here we go…
On the first day of Christmas a foodie once told me: Read the full story.
See my other WE articles:
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: The “Forget-Me-Nots” of Vancouver’s restaurant scene
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Wild BC spot prawn season begins
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: The best thing I ever ate…
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Gentrification and Vancouver’s DTES
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Cooking up a career
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Father’s Day for Vancouver foodies
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Sushi 101: Part 2 – Try the nigiri
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Sushi 101: Part 2 – How to use comdiments
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Sushi 101: Part 3 – How to eat it
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Vancouver Food Cart Fest
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Vancouver’s High on Pie
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: What is the definition of local?
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Why Mijune Pak writes about negative experiences.
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Hog Wild in Whistler
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Looking for “authentic” food or authenticity in food
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Modern VS Authentic Ramen
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: We All Scream for Ice Cream
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Sous vide’s stock rising to the top
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Fresh from your local BC farm
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Evolution of the Stilton Cheesecake
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: The Art of Sausage Making
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Local restauranteurs honoured (BC Restaurant Hall of Fame)
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: New takes on Thanksgiving classics
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Tasting guide through Yaletown
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: The knives come out for BC’s Top Chef
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: The Obsession with Salted Caramel
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Thoughts on winning Best of the City
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Dim Sum Trends in Hong Kong
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Gastro goodness in Gastown
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Winter Delicacies in Japan
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Rethinking Christmas Cake
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: 10 “Must Try” Holiday Cookies
- FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Culinary Hot Tickets
