Looking ahead to a full show featuring an interview with my new friend Julian, an incredibly kind, Vegas-loving, podcast-hosting chef.

I’m joined by Chef Aaron Hale of E.O.D. Fudge.

...recently I connected with the host of a great Vegas-themed podcast, Faces and Aces.

On today’s snack-sized episode, I’m sharing four food writers with you. Two are old (dead, in fact) and two are young.

I touch quickly on a great event I attended recently, “Bubbles and Buns”, put on by my friends Neil Hillbrandt and Greg Sugiyama of Room Service YVR.

It’s all about cooking in small spaces and wide-open places. Enter my new friend, Bart Cops the Camper Chef.

quick reviews on two more great spots, the Sovereign Room where we enjoyed a drink and a snack, and the TBay classic Caesar’s Place, home of inimitable panzerotti.

Today, though, the show is all about what to order with the food those chefs create. Let’s talk about that drink list!

 McKellar Confectionery, the legendary, opened-in-1926 Coney Island-style joint that I’ve raved about on the podcast before. We had a fantastic lunch and a quick catch-up with George, the third-generation hotdog-slinger behind the counter.

Chef works to maintain extremely high culinary standards at Black Sheep, while keeping an eye on work-life balance for her employees.

I recently reached out to Chef Jenny Dorsey for her recommendations on where to eat, and she came through with a fantastic website full of great ideas.

On this most recent trip to Vegas, I recorded a short interview with Kristy where she talks both about her podcast and about some food stops in Vegas you may not have heard about yet.

Sourdough, sailing and the pursuit of the perfect loaf.

Sourdough, sailing and the pursuit of the perfect loaf.

Sourdough, sailing and the pursuit of the perfect loaf.

Sourdough, sailing and the pursuit of the perfect loaf.

I’m really excited to continue the vegan theme on Cheftimony. Today, we’re building on last week’s Vegan 1.0 episode with a great talk with Anna Pippus, someone who brings a very impressive résumé in the vegan space and in the food world generally.

Today’s episode started a few months ago at the Annual General Meeting of Growing Chefs, a Vancouver-based charity that sends volunteer chefs into elementary school classes to teach kids about growing and cooking their own food

Since meeting with Jenna and Jacob at the Lone Wolf Bakery in Sechelt for Episode 012 of the show, I’ve had some more really fun discussions.

In the fall of 2017, my now-fiancée and I bought a home in Gibsons, a small town on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Gibsons is still most famous as the setting of The Beachcombers, a Canadian television series that was extremely popular in the 70s and 80s.