Another trip around the sun…

It’s our birthday! We’ve just completed our eleventh year, and with this issue we’re starting year twelve of bringing you stories of our local food and beverage communities and sharing their contributions to Alberta.

We’re hearing from chefs with their ideas of recipes for the start of the camping and cabin season, new spirit releases from local distillers, and our own unique wine industry – even if the climate is too cold to grow grapes. And there couldn’t be a better time to celebrate than Spring, a time for rebirth and regrowth, full of anticipation for the year ahead.

shape, and we’re looking forward to being able to reveal all very soon, and for you to join us on this amazing journey.

It’s been a fascinating time for me over the last couple of weeks, as one of my closest friends has been staying with me for her first visit to Alberta, and I’ve had to choose where to take her, what to see, and where to eat, whittling down my choices of favourite

But it’s a really good exercise to see our province through someone else’s eyes, to appreciate the things we take for granted on a daily basis through a fresh lens, and being forced to prioritise visits, realising yet again just how many wonderful and delicious experiences there are waiting to be enjoyed, and how vibrant and alive our province is with such kind, generous, and supportive people ready to make a stranger welcome.

Thanks so much to everyone we visited, everywhere we ate, and to all who extended the hand of friendship this month, as well as the last eleven years of eating and drinking my own way around our province.

Cheers

Linda, Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief/Publisher

Linda Garson linda@culinairemagazine.ca

Managing Editor

Tom Firth tom@culinairemagazine.ca

Multimedia Editor

Keane Straub keane@culinairemagazine.ca

Sales

Tara Zenon 403-472-1345 tara@culinairemagazine.ca

Design

Kendra Design Inc

Contributors

Natalie Findlay, Mallory Frayn

Lucy Haines, Dong Kim

Renée Kohlman, David Nuttall

Erika Ravnsborg, Keane Straub

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Culinaire Magazine acknowledges that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut'ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), and all people who make their home in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.