If Meals Won Medals
If you live in Vancouver you can easily become blase to the awesome vitality of the place, and especially forgetful of its reputation as a multicultural feast for the taste buds. It’s a well deserved reputation that can get taken for granted even if you do remember that you live in what The Economist magazine has said is the ‘most livable city in the world’ (2009).
To live in a place that was once referred to as a ‘village’ by the late, great ABC Sports commentator Jim McKay, and where to this day geographic confusion continues to reign (just last week AOL’s Gadling travel site referred to Vancouver as being on an island!), it’s worthy of note when someone outside the city says something extraordinary about it… and gets it right. It’s even more impressive when that ’someone’ is The New York Times.
Sam Sifton is one of the Times’ food critics and earlier this week he devoted several pages (online) to the gastronomy of YVR. He’s an excellent writer - you can practically taste the city in the prose. Definitely worth the read!
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