Ingredients
The Perfect Pairing
Mat’s Diner duo complement each others’ strengths. Sometimes in life, you get the perfect pairing. When it comes to Mat’s Diner in Kensington, you get many: breakfast and Indian flavours, comfort [...]
Sidewalk Citizen Restaurant
AMEN TO GREAT FOOD Walking into Sidewalk Citizen’s new restaurant in Central Memorial Park is almost like walking into a temple. Sun streams through lofty latticed ceilings onto reverent diners. Gothic-shaped windows line the [...]
January/February Issue on Stands Now
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Christmas Cocktail Roundup
Savour Calgary has rounded up its favourite Christmas cocktails in Calgary (and a couple outside, too) to help you make the most of your holiday libations. Whether you're celebrating, treating [...]
Panforte
Traditions occasionally need a little update, and while a radical change to a classic Christmas dinner might result in anarchy, who wouldn’t love a dense, nut- and fruit-laden dessert? And who, specifically, wouldn’t love [...]
Struffoli
Struffoli Italian Honey Balls are very small dough balls mixed with honey and sometimes decorated. They are crispy on the outside, light and airy on the inside and perfect as a Christmas or Easter [...]
My Bad Pot Luck
Prior to this year, I had contributed to maybe three pot lucks in my entire life. Just not my thing. I was re-introduced to the world of the pot luck [...]
Bachla Bras
Bachla Bras Originally a Portuguese recipe, a variation of this salted cod and potato recipe is fairly common throughout Europe. This recipe will serve a crowd, but is easily halved. 3 lb dried salted [...]
Parsnips and Pears
After a cool wet summer followed by a far too early cold and snowy fall, we should be completely inured to the reality of an Alberta winter. Put the reverie of perpetual summer aside [...]
Torta Sbrisalona
Few foods are as tightly bound to the holidays as cookies. They’re gifted and decorated, shipped and left out for Santa—they’re the first consideration when you ponder holiday baking (assuming [...]
Classic Shortbread Cookies
Few foods are as tightly bound to the holidays as cookies. They’re gifted and decorated, shipped and left out for Santa—they’re the first consideration when you ponder holiday baking (assuming [...]
Chocolate Tahini Rugelach
Few foods are as tightly bound to the holidays as cookies. They’re gifted and decorated, shipped and left out for Santa—they’re the first consideration when you ponder holiday baking (assuming [...]
Parsnip and Pear Soup
Just because parsnips are related to carrots doesn’t mean they can go in the kids’ lunches or on a crudité platter. It’s only after they have been thoroughly cooked that the parsnip’s true character [...]
Poached Pears
Despite seeing pears since late summer, I consider them a winter staple. Unlike most other fruits, pears must be harvested under ripe and kept in cold storage before ripening slowly [...]
Chewy Ginger Molasses Crinkles
Few foods are as tightly bound to the holidays as cookies. They’re gifted and decorated, shipped and left out for Santa—they’re the first consideration when you ponder holiday baking (assuming [...]
Quick Bites – November 2019
Cheers to the Three Wise Men Eau Claire Distillery’s redesigned Christmas Gin is a seasonal spirit that combines typical gin botanicals like juniper and coriander with the gifts of the [...]
Holiday Gift Guide 2019
By Wanda Baker and Tom Firth Create your own chocolate bar With one Master Chocolat store already in Marda Loop and a second in the works for South Calgary, fourth-generation [...]
Crossing Borders for Coffee
By BJ Oudman A latte at Baya Rica Cafe in Bridgeland. Photo by BJ Oudman Canadians love their coffee. With Tim Hortons being one of our most recognized national brands, [...]
Linger Longer at Flores and Pine
They say necessity is the mother of invention. In the case of [...]
Something to Smile About at Mélo
Savour Calgary editors report this location as permanently closed It’s the Saturday night before Halloween and [...]
Dive into Modern Ocean
If you ever get the chance to sit and have a chat with chef and restaurateur Stephen Deere, count yourself lucky. Not because [...]
The Future of Food
Sci-Fi prognosticators in the ’60s foresaw computers magically manifesting a milkshake for an ensign with a sweet tooth. Others figured we’d be popping nutrient tablets by now and foregoing the [...]
Savour Selects – November 2019
Meet you at the Bridge Daniel Plenzik (l) ad Jacques Tremblay toast their new distillery. Photo by Camie Leard As Calgary and area’s distilling scene continues to grow, [...]
An Italian Christmas
Frank Spinelli had a gift for bringing people together. From his earliest days of importing Italian newspapers and espresso for his friends and neighbours in Edmonton, he and his wife, [...]