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A Calgary Eater’s Guide to Surviving RAID YOUR BOOKSHELF: Since we’re doing a lot of raiding, let’s not forget your bookshelf full of great cookbooks and other foodie fodder by Calgary authors. Karen Anderson and Matilde Sanchez-Turri’s awardwinning Food Artisans of Alberta will inspire you and help you plan your first road trip once we’re back on the highways, windows down, tunes cranked. Gwendolyn Richards’ Pucker: A Cookbook for Citrus Lovers is sure to cheer you up AND get you your daily recommended intake of vitamin C. One cookbook you’ll want to have on hand during these dark days is Calgary Eats by Karen Ralph and Gail Norton, which rounds up some favourite dishes by local chefs. Enjoy Chef Kayle Burns from Bread and Circus’ Bigoli all’ Amatriciana courtesy of Calgary Eats in the sidebar. While we’d rather leave the cheffing to the chefs, if we can’t dine with them, let’s dine with their help. All three of these books are available for virus-free home delivery on Amazon.
If there’s one thing we know about eaters it’s that no matter what, we’ll find a way to eat great food. We’re the people who will whip up Saskatoonberry compote with a stick and rock to complement the trout we caught with our bare hands for a post-apocalyptic creekside nosh. Fortunately, our spearfishing and rock mashing skills are not yet required. Calgary’s food suppliers and makers are just as passionate and ingenious when it comes to feeding the eaters. We may not be able to gather in large groups to enjoy the best our city has to offer (man, do we miss you guys!) but there’s plenty available for quarantined connoisseurs to cook, to eat and to drink. Here are some ways Calgary eaters can survive social distancing with a fully-pleased palate.
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RAID YOUR PANTRY: You know you have a bag of barley hanging out at the back of the second shelf of your cupboard. Local food blogger and Savour Calgary contributor Bernice Hill (Dishnthekitchen. com) has a great recipe for barley arancini with shittake and seaweed on her site – and we’ve included it here for you too. Bonus: it calls for a ¹⁄³ cup of pinot grigio and someone will need to drink the rest. Hey, there’s a pandemic going on out there, we won’t judge you for drinking on a Tuesday.
RAID THE INTERNET: Speaking of local food bloggers, Calgary has a bounty of talented cooks, writers, photographers, recipe developers and Instagrammers. In fact, some of our homegrown online talent is world renowned in online food circles. Savour Calgary associate editor Wanda Baker offers the delightful bakersbeans.com, foodie power couple Tara and Ken Noland say they bring in hundreds of thousands of page views per month to their Noshing with the Nolands blog, Our own Julie Van Rosendaal mustn’t go unmentioned with her very popular Dinner with Julie blog. If you’re looking for some visual stimulation and inspiration, visit @FoodKarmaBlog, @yycFoodJunkie, @HungryCoupleYYC, @FoodMammaCom and @Miss_Foodie on Instagram. Start there, and you’ll go down a delicious rabbit hole that will leave you hungry for more.
