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5 Things Vancouver: James Sherrett

by Dan
Travel + Vancouver / February 23, 2010

In former lives, James Sherrett played hockey, guided fishermen, and wrote the novel Up in Ontario.

A foodist and a Flickrist, he is the founder of the creative community AdHack whose mission is to make better advertising.

If you want to go fishing, skiing, or hunting crabs waist-deep in the Pacific: James can probably hook you up.
 

What’s your favourite book about Vancouver?
The Pornographer's Poem by Michael Turner

Where’s your favourite spot to eat on a budget?
The Social butcher shop in gastown. Incredible sandwiches and home-made potato chips.

What’s your favourite restaurant for a romantic dinner?
Bishop's on 4th is the best restaurant experience in the city. Local food and west-coast cuisine was pioneered by proprietor John Bishop.

Where’s a good spot for Wi-Fi downtown?
Pretty much every coffee shop worth visiting (read: not Starbucks) has free wifi. Sometimes you just have to ask your barista. 

Why should people live in Vancouver and not just visit?
They shouldn't. Real estate prices are already too high. I'm not inviting any more demand into the market.

Bonus: 
Best Popcorn: The Dunbar Theatre on Dunbar at W. 29th.

Living - and Eating - Off the Land

by Siobhan
Food & Drink / November 16, 2009

When we say that we made a meal 'from scratch', for most of us, that doesn't include actually catching the fish or forgaging for the mushrooms. It certainly does not mean free-diving into icy Puget Sound in hopes of spearing a snaggletooth lingcod.

But that level of committement to living - and eating - off the land  is what author Langdon Cook is all about. Cook was a senior book editor at Amazon.com until 2004, when he left the corporate world to live in a cabin off the grid with his wife and son. In his book, FAT OF THE LAND: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager, Cook shares his experiences living in a new way.

Monqiue at  SoMisguided.com has posted a review of the book. The subject's close to home for her: she and her partner James also enjoy going out  to catch crabs in the cold waters in and around Vancouver. Read the full review on SoMisguided.com - along with some cool (cold?) photos of crab catching.

You can find out a bit more about FAT OF THE LAND here, and keep with the author on the Fat of the Land blog, where he writes about his adventures in the culinary wilderness  and also posts some recipes - such as fishing for pink salmon, then making Blackberry Must & Citrus Cured Salmon. Mmm.

“In Fat of the Land, Langdon Cook invites us to share in his enthusiastic, salubrious, wild food foraging quests. Get out of town, breathe in the fresh air, hear the quiet, exercise, feel good, connect with nature and the season—then return to the kitchen to delicious preparations of dandelion greens, squid, fiddleheads, or whatever the quarry. Lively, informative, soul-satisfying narrative.”  —Jon Rowley, Contributing Editor, Gourmet