British Columbia

Canada's Original Cooking Vessel

Bentwood Box CookingCanada can claim only one indigenous cooking technique – the bentwood box from the First Nations along the coast of British Columbia. The world has taught us how to make oatcakes and pasta, pizza and Yorkshire pudding, perfect sushi and great perogies. We roast, boil, bake, stir-fry, microwave, pickle, freeze, preserve, pit cook, barbecue…ad infinitum but the bentwood box is the only method that’s utterly unique to our country.

Move over PEI, here comes Pemberton, B.C.

Prince Edward DistilleryOn both coasts this make such good sense but it may yet be up to some wise Ontario entrepreneur to come up with a REAL Canadian vodka using our very own Yukon Gold....or another one of the late Gary Johnston's varietals.Yukon Gold Vodka

A Coastal Recipe

 

CookiesWhere the mountainous British Columbia mainland almost touches Vancouver Island, the surging Pacific forces its way through Seymour Narrows just north of the vibrant city of Campbell River.

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