It feels great to be moving ahead with Season 2 of the podcast after having had so much fun with Season 1. The first season of Cheftimony gave me the chance to interview my friend and mentor Chef Andrea Carlson…

Congratulations on finding your way to the final episode of Season 1 of the Cheftimony podcast! Soon the whole of the Season 1 will be available on iTunes and elsewhere, so please stay in touch here and on Instagram and Facebook, and you’ll know where and when you can download any episode you like.

Today’s show came about through a happy meeting on Instagram, and that virtual meeting happened because of shared interests in chefs and their stories.

I’m really grateful to have connected with my friend Thompson Tran at Kafka Coffee and Tea on Vancouver’s Main Street. Thompson and I first met years and years ago at Bishop’s Restaurant in Vancouver.

For the interviews today, I sat down at the bar seats that look directly into the open kitchen line at Burdock & Co. in Vancouver.

For the interviews today, I sat down at the bar seats that look directly into the open kitchen line at Burdock & Co. in Vancouver.

Have a look the next time you’re walking into a restaurant and see if you notice something in the window. In recent days and in three different cities in British Columbia,

Consider the oyster. There’s a good deal in that. In 1941, M.F.K. Fisher wrote her short wonderful treatise on the oyster, and the book has inspired readers and oyster eaters (and readers to become oyster eaters) ever since. If you haven’t read it, and especially if you have, I recommend it for your summer reading list.

Consider the oyster. There’s a good deal in that. In 1941, M.F.K. Fisher wrote her short wonderful treatise on the oyster, and the book has inspired readers and oyster eaters (and readers to become oyster eaters) ever since. If you haven’t read it, and especially if you have, I recommend it for your summer reading list.

Since the next episode of the Cheftimony podcast will have lots of talk about oysters, it feels like the right time to post an older piece, an essay I wrote while volunteering at Burdock & Co in 2014, a year before I started actually working as a cook...

Cheftimony Episode 002 is a long way from home, all the way from Vancouver, BC to the very bright lights of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Cheftimony Episode 002 is a long way from home, all the way from Vancouver, BC to the very bright lights of Las Vegas, Nevada.

This is a piece I wrote in 2015, chronicling a day when I was fortunate to step into the kitchen at Bouchon Bistro in Las Vegas.

Cheftimony Episode 001 started the show in the right place, at Burdock & Co in Vancouver, BC with Chef Andrea Carlson.

The second intro episode of the podcast explains the backstory of Cheftimony.

The first cast