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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 46 – WTDW

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025 Shawn Leave a comment

Oh mah gawd! It’s Eat|Drink|Cheap from out of nowhere with a steel chair! Simon and Shawn return to harvest, pickle, ferment, blend, pulverize and preserve all that summer has left over. When you have too much of something you gotta know WTDW.

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

HOOK LINE AND SUPPER by Hank Shaw: https://honest-food.net/hank-shaw-books/
Blackberry Cottage Farms: https://www.blackberrycottagefarm.com/
THE FLAVOUR BIBLE: https://evoolution.ca/products/the-flavour-bible
Issac Toupes Chasing the gator cookbook: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0316465771?ref_=cb_interstitial_us_ca_desktop_unrec_location_unk_dp_dp
PERSIA by Naiomi Duguid: https://www.amazon.ca/Taste-Persia-Travels-Azerbaijan-Kurdistan-ebook/dp/B01BEGV624
Wildcraft Vinegars by Pascal Godart: https://www.amazon.com/Wildcrafted-Vinegars-Ferments-Dressings-Mustards/dp/1645021149
Adwaith: https://www.adwaithmusic.com/
The Allergies: http://www.theallergies.co.uk/
SILVER DAGGERS book series by Catherine Kerr: https://www.goodreads.com/series/49515-deverry-cycle

Brownstone Restaurant (Kamloops, BC)

June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 Shawn Leave a comment

Two cities could not be more different than Squamish, which we left mere days ago and Kamloops, where we find ourselves now. Squamish was a quiet, compact, college and outdoor sports town, Kamloops a sprawling spaghetti of onramps and railyards. Squamptons prefer their food and drink unfussy while Kamloopers relish the theatre of “a big night out”.

Crystal and I were also hankering for one of those big nights out so we squared some reservations at Brownstone in the heart of what we were told was downtown Kamloops. We stumbled in early for our reservation after scoring a cheap copy of Marquis Moon by Television over at Barnacle Records a few blocks down. It was one of the few businesses we found to be open.

Backcountry Brewing (Squamish, BC)

June 1, 2025June 1, 2025 Shawn Leave a comment

You can feel the peculiar energy as you walk around pretty much anywhere in Squamish. It’s there downtown while your buying groceries and wafts around in Brackendale’s backwoods, you even get it up in Garibaldi Heights. It’s omnipresent, a feeling of electricity that you might attribute to the towering skyline, but it’s not all just mountains so close you could jog to them… It’s right in front of you: It’s a feeling of youthful exuberance!

Everyone here is so damn young! It’s like they politely asked everyone over the age of 60 to leave and sold all the houses to 30-something couples with four kids, no-one over 15% body fat, please. They are everywhere, jogging and mountain biking, opening yoga studios and breweries like Backcountry Brewing.

Blogging, Bannock and Eventually a 2025 Beer List

May 11, 2025May 11, 2025 Shawn 1 Comment

Looking back, it’s amazing to me that in the early years of this blog I banged out two beer lists a year. Either I was drinking ten times the amount and variety of beer I drink now… possible, or I had far more disposable time to dedicate to writing as I have now.

Scrolling down my mid-2000s ubiquitous right blog sidebar it looks like I can barely get off my ass to do a blog post a year, which is a bit melancholy and also a tad misleading. It’s not for love… Food blogs didn’t die the way I was predicting back when I wrote this and I didn’t slow down due to work. In fact, I have MORE free time now that I’m not in a professional kitchen.

Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 43 – Aftershifter – A Couple Of Christmas Crackers

January 12, 2025January 12, 2025 Shawn Leave a comment

Put on your silly paper hats kids! Shawn and Simon sit around the holiday table and sift through the rubble of 2024 to find some recipes, food trends and media they loved and want to share.