I’ve been watching the series on Netflix. It’s not your run of the mill cooking show. It’s so much more because in each hourly episode the series focuses on a particular chef that will inspire the hell out of you.
From Chef Meets BC Grape
You find out their story: what drives them, how they shop, about their relationship to food and their style as they prepare a culinary specialty. And it all looks so pretty….even something so simple and singular as a carrot. But it’s not just a carrot, it’s a carrot from the chef’s family run farm that tastes unlike any other carrot. And it makes everything you make seem so……...well, ordinary?
Anyway….just wanted to tell you about two upcoming chef inspired events in my home town, Vancouver because I really feel that Vancouver is becoming a world class dine out city. So much so that I just found out about a dine out week taking place next month that is very inspiring (UPS – upcoming post soon). But in the meantime:
#1 – Chef Meets Truck:
Roaming Dragon Pan-Asian Food Truck
On September 13, the Chefs’ Table Society of BC, in partnership with the Yaletown BIA and the Streetfood Vancouver Society host the inaugural event Chef Meets Truck in Yaletown at the intersection of Hamilton and Nelson. The event will run from 6:30pm-9:30pm and consists of Vancouver restaurant chefs hopping on board local Food Trucks to serve up the foodie event of the season. This collaborative event brings Vancouver’s hottest restaurant and food truck chefs together for the first time ever.
Purchase tickets to the inaugural event for $69 + taxes and fees here. Tickets include food samples from the eight participating food trucks, as well as, wine and beer samples from Nichol Vineyard, Lock and Worth Winery and Brassneck Brewery.
Thursday, September 15
Vancouver Convention Centre East
999 Canada Place, Ballrooms A, B, C
7–9:30 PM
Tickets are selling fast to the largest tasting of BC VQA wines in Vancouver! This popular fundraiser is a unique opportunity to taste a selection of more than 300 wines from 90 of BC’s top producers.
A tasting event for both novice wine tasters and connoisseurs—you can expect to sip and savour vintages of established labels, and find new favourites from an abundance of up-and-coming, family-run, and boutique operations. Guests will also have the opportunity to taste specially prepared pairing dishes from 12 BC restaurants!
Participating restaurants include:
Chicha Restaurant
Fable Kitchen
Hart House Restaurant
Lift Bar and Grill
Miradoro Restaurant
Provence Marinaside
Torafuku Modern Asian Eatery
Tickets are selling fast—buy now to avoid disappointment!
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe
Everyone knows that Poe is a Poet but we all have different viewpoints of another person’s image. That is called perception. What happens when someone doesn’t fit into the “usual” image we form for something they represent?
What is Window Horses?
Window Horses is a new Animated, Multi-Cultural, Unusual, Smart Feature Film with a Message. I find it inspiring. It is written, directed and produced by someone I know, Ann Marie Fleming, who has been making award winning films for over 25 years. Because she is such an unusual & inspiring person herself I knew that at the very least it would be interesting and worth checking out. So….
Rosie Ming is a mixed-race, 20-something, introverted, closet poet who dreams of going to Paris. She doesn’t know a thing about her parents. Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy, Sideways, Under the Tuscan Sun, etc…) is Rosie. Her work is about transformation!
Taken from the Website:
This film is our small effort to try and add a little more peace, love and understanding to our increasingly complex and conflicted world through art, poetry, history and culture. Heady stuff!
Not to give too much away but….
It’s about love (it’s always about love…) – love of family, poetry, history, culture. Here’s the story: Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry.
Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.
WATCH the Trailer:
“Window Horses hits all the things that are important to me: it’s pro-girl, pro-tolerance, pro-diversity and PRO-ART!! My nieces are mixed race and it’s very important to me that they see themselves represented in this society.” – Sandra Oh
Heady Stuff Indeed!
Window Horses will be playing during VIFF (September 29 – October 14, 2016). For program & tickets please visit:
“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”
―E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web (As a child adult I loved the book & animated movie). I am proud to say I’ve never killed a spider.
Doesn’t it feel different already? We’re in that in between stage – not quite summer (even though it is officially still summer) but not quite fall. Temperature is a bit cooler and it gets darker earlier. Just giving us a little glimpse of what to Fall for. I actually don’t mind it as much as I thought. I’m all for a little change as long as it’s not too too sudden or disturbing. I’m trying to embrace change. Not crazy life changing change….just little changes here and there that are healthy and positive.
What I’m Falling For this Year:
For starters exercise and diet – and it’s not even New Year’s Eve! I’m starting early. That’s not to say I don’t look after myself by getting proper exercise (I do) and eating as well as I can but I’m making an effort to do it better and more effectively. I’m kick starting this because I’m of no use to the important people in my life or anyone else if I’m not in top notch health myself.
I believe in looking after yourself as best you can and keeping your house in order. Otherwise things can get out of control.
I’m exploring some alternative methods of relaxation like meditation to help improve sleep and anxiety. I’m looking into acupuncture….just because I believe it can help with a multitude of symptoms. Not just for myself.
Getting back to reading. By that I mean….books. I have too many gathering dust up on the shelf.
Getting rid of excess. Going through clothing and other items that I no longer have use for. A few of these are bigger ticket items like condos & cars (possibly).
Dancing for exercise, enjoyment, expression, social and fun.
Language for communication & the mind (it is said to help prevent alzheimers).
Philanthropy because it feels good to help those more “in need”.
I’m researching some things on my own. I will look forward to sharing them with you in the upcoming months. I hope to bring more inspiring posts to this page over time. That is the main purpose of having this blog. By keeping track of things that inspire, make a difference and improve life mixed in with the usual fashion and fun.
Girl Who Would be KING on Life, Style and INSPIRATION. 
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