Food

Dan Clapson is one of the top authorities on food in Calgary and stays busy writing for a plethora of publications including FFWD, Culinaire, up! and Avenue Magazine. Dan is also behind the new foodie website Eat North and is responsible for the Western Canadian culinary initiative that gets students learning how to cook meals beyond pop tarts and ichiban noodles

Toronto-based young professional (YP) Briana Santoro bares all with a sexy new cookbook that undresses the food we eat, appropriately called 'Get Naked in the Kitchen'. We caught up with her recently to undress the details

Reena Vadan is a bubbly and dynamic woman who knows how to roll up her sleeves in order to accomplish her dreams. At 31, Reena has just opened up her second business with her husband Amit; a market geared towards giving the downtown crowd healthier lunch options.

Today's Notable Young Entrepreneur is culinary nutritionist and health strategist Marni Wasserman, who also owns Toronto's first plant-based food studio and lifestyle shop. What was the inspiration behind her career route? Find out in today's profile

The holidays: a time for family bonding, seeing old friends, culinary indulgence and, in combination with the last point, wine beer pairing. That's right, your Christmas oysters want stout, not sparkling. We caught up with beer sommelier Craig Young of Ki restaurant to find out a little bit more about this recent craze and why it's perfect for the holidays

Pop quiz: What do you know about luchadores? And just remember that seeing Nacho Libre doesn’t qualify your answer. We love these guys for their bewildering ability to emanate pure masculinity in tights, and the fact that you rarely see the man behind the mask just adds to the intrigue

When it comes to hot topics, nothing is more scorching these days than any and everything to do with our food – or more specially, where it comes from and how it’s produced. And that’s just where that big buzzword GMO comes into play

We love talking foodie trends here on Notable, and this one-helluva-hybrid may just be our absolute fave: The cronut. We chatted with cronut connoisseur gourmand Alessandro Ficca of Montreal’s popular La Cornetteria to find out just how the tasty treat found its way north, and why he thinks it has become such a major foodie fantasy

Just look at you, you otherwise well-balanced young professional (YP) who keeps fit and eats clean, sitting there with Cheetoh-orange fingers, gut rot, and guilt. That’s right, you succumbed to temptation and impulse and pigged out like nobody’s business