Rooted & Ready To Bloom
The Yukon’s first Plant Festival is organized by the newly-formed Yukon Plant Guild and will take root on July 19 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Have Your Cake and Virtue Too
April is a month of birthdays for my immediate family, most of whom are scattered in the semi-wilds of Ontario.
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Green It Up! It’s Dandelion Season!
About a month ago I visited the first place I ever picked dandelions: a small, pebbly beach on the Greek island of Alonissos…
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Currant-ly Available
Blackcurrants grow wild in the Yukon, sparsely. Find Ribes hudsoniam in damp forests at the base of mountains, like the King’s Throne hike.
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So Good, So Try It
The Yukon Culinary Festival sounds like a good way to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary. “The definition of Canadian cuisine that we use is local, seasonal,
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Color Me Blue
It struck me a couple days ago that I have gotten out of the habit of baking, and was missing having nibbly bites about for
A Market for the Whole Community
Whitehorse chef and cookbook author (and What’s Up Yukon columnist) Miche Genest has a wonderful description of the Fireweed Community Market: she calls it “community
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The Yukon Culinary Festival Tells a Story of the Yukon, Through Food
The Yukon is filled with culinary hidden gems, according to Eric Pateman. A culinary expert, Pateman had no idea how rich the Yukon food scene
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Frolic for Foodies
At the end of July, foodies from across the country will travel north to take part in the 2015 Yukon Culinary Festival. Now in its
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Experiencing Finnish Cuisine
While reading The Boreal Feast, Miche Genest’s second cookbook, I wanted to pack my baggage and travel to Scandinavia. Genest surrounds recipes with stories and
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Set the Summer Calendar, as Fireweed Begins to Bloom
What can one tell a Yukoner about fireweed? Isn’t it like talking to an Inuvialuit person about ice? Fireweed’s colours, height and flowering times are
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Not Easy Being Green
If you’re heading out to Circle D Ranch for a few days of music and food this weekend, you’d be well-advised to bring your own
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Feasting on the Forest
Miche Genest is up early, squeezing wild-rose-petal-infused egg whites into small twists on parchment-paper-lined baking pans. She’s making meringues in preparation for the launch of
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Making Culinary Art from Local Trees
You know that thing that happens when you taste something and it is so delicious that the experience goes beyond just eating something to this
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Yukon writers pair up to perform
Yukon writers are pairing up to give a series of weekly readings at the Whitehorse Public Library starting Feb. 5. The readings begin with Al
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World of Words: Boreal Gourmet serves up storied fare
Every book needs a story, even a cookbook, and Miche Genest’s Boreal Gourmet, released this month by Harbour Publishing, is just that. Boreal Gourmet presents
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Yukon Yearbook, Yukon Author showcase 2010
Yukon writers are prolific, offering a new book every month or so. From John Firth to Clea Roberts, a showcase of Yukon books from 2010.
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