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Vij's Setting a Green Table Standart
For over a decade now, Vikram Vij has been an ambassador of good taste. Together with his wife and partner, Meeru, he has been guided by the simplest and purest of principles: to offer a taste of their homeland using the freshest local ingredients possible.
Within a single year of opening their namesake restaurant, Vij's, in 1994, the duo had captured the curiosity of a grateful clientele and accolades from top critics.
Both born in India with strong familial memories of the foods of their youth, it was not until the early 1990s that they met in Vancouver where the cultures of the world pool and swirl as nowhere else.
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Organic Bounty
How can organic agriculture help feed the world's growing population? This highly debated question was discussed by 350 participants from 80 countries at a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference in Rome in May 2007.
What they found was that the answer to the world food crisis is nowhere near cut and dried-and that organic growing provides valuable environmental and social benefits that boost its balance on the positive side of the scale.
Conference attendees were quick to note that the world's food system exhibits several paradoxes.
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Coffee Confidential
Coffee is bad for you!
No, wait. Coffee is good for you!
Better hurry up and enjoy drinking that steamy hot cuppa joe before the experts change their minds-again.
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Wellness Show 2008
The 16th Annual Wellness Show & February 1, 2, and 3 at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre&promises to enlighten, engage, and encourage attendees in their quest to find balance.
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Fuel for Thought
Global warming is my fault. Before you come after me with sharp, green fangs and cracked environmental knuckles, you might want to say the same thing to yourself.
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Poses for Repose
Studies have shown that regular yoga practice moderates heart rate, encourages good circulation, calms the mind, lowers blood pressure, and helps the body-and mind-find peace and stillness.
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The Power of a Positive Mindset
I'm often asked for simple tips for achieving optimal health. Here are my three top tips: 1. Make the decision to change; 2.
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Living an Authentic Life
In a world where success is defined by money, and happiness is just a weight-loss plan away, many of us have lost sight of our most valuable asset: our true selves.
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Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic
by Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey, and Anne WordsworthNew Society Publishers, 2007, 317 pages, $27.95ISBN: 9780865715424
Friends who found me reading Cancer over the past week were all equally shocked and vocal: "Why are you reading such a depressing book?
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