Summer 2008

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Features

• Green Your Palate
  When it comes to greens, lettuce is just the tip of the iceberg

• Happy Camping
  Think ahead. Use our handy two-week planner to prepare for your next tent or RV excursion.

• Feather Your Nest
  Why wait 'til Christmas? When, where and how to have your fowl and eat it too.

• Ambassadors of Food
  Wellies and aprons? Three remarkable women redefine the word "farmer"

• Salacious Salads
  A salad doesn't have to have the same four ingredients. Re-invigorate your veggies

• Mix It Up
  Plan a great grill party that will have you swilling drinks, not sweating it out

Departments

• A Message From Growing Alberta
  Best of the season to you

• Travel
  Taste the beans on Bow Island, without getting wet

• In Their Kitchens
  A brother and sister culinary team put the "tang" in Wild Tangerine

• Since You Asked
  What's in a label?

• Health and Safety
  No foolin' with food. There are food recalls everyday, but most of us don't know it.

• City Slickers
  Jennifer rocks the Big Rock Brewery

• Just for Kids
  What came first, the chicken or the egg?

• Picture Perfect
  See how Jana Miko's daughter likes to pick flowers

Quick Bites

• Don't Fear the Kefir
  Imagine a new summer quaff: a cool, creamy, ever-so-slightly effervescent beverage. Served chilled, its pleasant tangy finish not only revitalizes you, it re-colonizes you.

• Cheapskate's Challenge
  Admit it, you love a bargain. Something fancy and fine, but bought for a song. Inside every one of us is a cheapskate, whether crowing or cowering.

• Out of a Jam
  Visit one of Alberta’s U-pick destinations this summer and load up on strawberries. Then keep the best of summer around by making and canning jam.

• Total Recall
  Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada have developed a website to provide Canadians with easy access to food safety and recall information.

• Have Dinner with Julie
  Looking for something new for dinner? Invite Julie Van Rosendaal over for a cuppa, or at least check out her website, Dinner with Julie.

• My Secret Ingredient
  Carole Amerongen and Ivo Piorecky of The Dish and The Runaway Spoon share their secret ingredients

• Grown Right. Here
  It’s time to get back to the flavours of Alberta, and the Calgary Stampede is doing just that with its new culinary program, called “Grown Right. Here”.

Online Only

• Give Barley a Boost
  If Wes Lafortune’s piece on the bean capital of the west on page 24 had you craving the taste of the home-grown fare, you should have been at the Alberta Barley Commission’s annual baking contest in February, where two SAIT students came out on top.

• Take Your Pulse
  Complex carbohydrates, soluble fiber, folic acid, potassium, B vitamins, protein: these are just a few things that legumes have going for them. Of course the main reason to eat them is the incredible taste.

• Nuts About You
  There’s nothing as delicious as chocolate cake, unless it’s chocolate peanut butter cake with chocolate peanut butter filling. It’s the Jif peanut butter baking contest winner.