Tiny Bites 2009: a year in review
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Karen Hamilton
December 31, 2009
As 2009 winds down to a close, I’d like to share the most memorable stories, experiences, and images of our threesome’s year in food.
Key Moments
What a time of transition. A new business, new contributors, and a new life to welcome into the world. 2010 is gonna be huge.
Dining Out
These are just a few of the places that Bruce, Degan, and I adored in 2009.
- Are you too cool for Qoola?
- Chinatown double feature: Phnom Penh and New Town Bakery
- Filipino Restaurant Series: Pinpin
- Visual Bites: Medina Cafe
- One fish, half a poutine at Red Fish, Blue Fish
- Visual Bites: Tamarind Hill
- Three things I’ll miss about Fuel Restaurant
- Diamond Girl
- A Refined Look at the Cocktail List
- Patio favourites in Victoria
- Bon eats at Baan Thai
Events Around Town
As a newly occupied parent, I’m sure that I’ll have to bow out of and/or delegate many of the events that we had enjoyed in 2009. This list is mostly for me to dwell in nostalgia as I tend to my little one in 2010.
- A play-by-play of the 2009 Culinary Tourism Society BC Conference
- An anthology of the 2009 Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival
- A pictorial of the 2009 BC Restaurant Hall of Fame gala
- Wolfgang Blass: the other man who turned me on… to wine
- A Tasting With Bill Hardy
- Blogathon 2009 for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society
- Foodists BBQ BootCamp
- Recap and tasting notes of the 2009 Gastown Blues and Chili Festival
- Wines of Chile supertasting
- Celebrating Oktoberfest with La Brasserie
- Treat yourself to the last days of the 2009 West Coast Chocolate Festival
- Cornucopia: the sessions
- Live coverage of Shark Truth’s inaugural fundraiser at Wild Rice Restaurant
Home Cooking
We sure did a lot of cooking this year!
- Football-friendly recipes for Super Bowl XLIII
- Recipes for a romantic Valentine’s Day at home
- Foodists fun with Wanda and the Butchers of Gastown
- On being a Yaletown Hobby Chef for a Social Bites dinner
- Family pho recipe revealed
- Rouxbe Cooking School Series: fun with pho, part 1 of 2
- Birthday cakes of immortality
- On the making of an edible Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
- My mother-in-law’s Christmas Eve tourtière recipe
Culinary Travel
I’m not going to be able to do nearly as much jetsetting in 2010 as our trio did in 2009. Here are the highlights of where we’ve been.
- Bites of Asia Series: dining along the edge of a volcano (Philippines)
- Celebrating Chinese New Year around the Pacific Rim (Macau / Hong Kong)
- A tale of two Daniel Boulud cities (Las Vegas, NV)
- Tiny Bites does the Langley Circle Farm Tour circuit (Langley, BC)
- A taste of Victoria with Coast Hotels & Resorts (Victoria, BC)
- High Tea Series: The Empress Hotel (Victoria, BC)
- Battle of Chicago deep dish pizzerias (Chicago, IL)
- Bruce eats New York: Republic and Viet-Cafe in a Vietnamese showdown! (Pho-down?) (New York City, NY)
- Bruce eats New York: fried chicken overload at Momofuku Noodle Bar (New York City, NY)
Favourite Visuals
With so much going on this past year, it was difficult to write about everything we experienced. Consequently, these became hidden gems in my Flickr photostream. Here they are again for your viewing pleasure.
- Bites of Asia
- Day tripping in Chilliwack
- A lesson in chocolate with the Dirty Apron Cooking School
- Harvest Picking Party at Township 7
- A Thanksgiving Wine Tour in the Okanagan
- Pie Day
- A Night with Theo Chocolate
- Foodists’ Decadent Dinner Potluck
Favourite Discoveries
These people, events, and treats helped make 2009 an even yummier year. Please check them out.
Categories: Events, Food, Miscellany, Recipes, Restaurants, Travel
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