Olympics even a foodie could love
- February 3, 2010 4:08 PM |
- By Amber Hildebrandt
The Vancouver Olympics start on Feb. 12. (Chuck Stoody/Canadian Press)
Olympic medal ceremonies may tug at my tear ducts, but it never occurred to me to consider forking over a pretty penny to see the Vancouver Games in person.
Not until I read the New York Times' saliva-inducing spread on Vancouver's culinary landscape, that is.
In it, NYT food critic Sam Sifton declares Vancouver "among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games." Part of this simply boils down to size, with the city being one of the largest metropolitan areas to host the Winter Games, but he also attributed it to Vancouver's diversity and the bounty of the region.
The venerable paper also photographs each eatery in drool-worthy detail.
I've been to Vancouver once before, but the gastronomic portion of my short visit now seems somewhat unsatisfying.
One thing I know for sure: I think I'll wait until the city returns to calm before I visit and then perhaps conduct my own test of athletic strength: freestyle restaurant jumping.
Did Sifton do Vancouver's culinary scene justice? What must-eats did he miss?
About the Authors
- Elizabeth Bridge is a producer with CBC's Digital Archives project. She got her start in the kitchen baking brownies and making fudge but is still trying to get pastry right.
- Andrea Chiu
is an associate producer at CBC Radio Digital. Though she loves to eat, cook and discuss food,
don't ask her to bake. It never turns out well. She tweets as @TOfoodie on Twitter and organizes food and wine events in Toronto called FoodieMeet.
- Amber Hildebrandt
works for CBCNews.ca in Toronto. Growing up on a farm in Manitoba, she acquired an insatiable appetite, but it was during a stint in Japan that she developed her discerning tastebuds and foodie ways.
- Tara Kimura
is a multimedia producer for CBCNews.ca.
- Andree Lau
is a CBC web reporter in Calgary. Her journalism career includes seven years as a CBC-TV reporter. Her own blog called "are you gonna eat that?" chronicles her eating adventures (including sampling snake and camel hoof tendon).
- Jessica Wong
is a CBCNews.ca writer who loves to eat and cook, as well as discuss, read and watch programming about food, sometimes all at once.
- Kevin Yarr
, CBCNews.ca's writer in Prince Edward Island, wrote about food and beer for national and regional magazines before joining the CBC. He acquired a desire for new tastes on his first trip to Europe, and an appreciation of eating locally and in season when he finally settled down on P.E.I.
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