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MONTECRISTO Blog: EAT! Vancouver Canadian Flavours Gala

Food and Drink

Eat! Vancouver’s Canadian Flavours Gala

Be merry.

This Thursday, 14 wineries from the Okanagan’s Naramata Bench will pour their best, while talented chefs will cook for the gathered.

Community

Earth Day

Celebrating our planet.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Both a celebration of our planet—and a reminder that we still have far to go—is Earth Day, an annual day of awareness.

MONTECRISTO Blog: Unsung Heroes

Food and Drink

Chef Frank Pabst’s Unsung Heroes

A sustainable seafood festival.

To preach avoidance of species that are over-fished, or harvested in ways that can damage oceans beds, is not enough. Thus chef Frank Pabst’s month-long celebration features such things as sea urchin, jellyfish, mackerel, octopus, and gooseneck barnacles.

MONTE Magazine: Ocean Wise

Food and Drink

Ocean Wise

Sustainable ripple.

Fads come and go, especially in the fickle world of food and drink. But one trend not going away any time soon is the role of the chef as advocate for responsible dining.

MONTE Blog: Vancouver Aquarium

Design

The Vancouver Aquarium Expands

Water world.

The Vancouver Aquarium will reveal part of the most significant expansion in its 58-year history this Friday—a sustainably designed state-of-the-art space, and the first of three notable additions to the marine centre.

MONTECRISTO: Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup

Impact

The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup

Beachcombing.

The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is a conservation initiative begun by the Vancouver Aquarium in 1994 and now jointly led by WWF. Last year, an astounding 143,737 kilograms of trash were removed from 3,144 kilometres of shoreline in Canada.