En tournant la durabilité en art

LARDER LOVE: Fruit, seafood and cheeses at Granville Island Public Market.

When you for any food tour to locate your best guide putting on a whitened smock and channelling Madonna, odds are you are set for something memorable.

"Strike a pose, there is nothing into it,Inch Julian Bond states, modifying his headset once we get up on an angling pier outdoors the Off-shore Institute of Cooking, a college just south of Granville Island, Vancouver.

Moments later he's tugging a place prawn from his pocket and lambasting sea dredging in south-east Asia.

Then we are onto sea food snap-freezing (good), Foam (bad) and also the distinction between brie and camembert (60 kms in France). Impassioned and furiously paced, Bond is certainly not otherwise eclectic.

In April, he won the inaugural mentorship award from Vancouver Magazine. As executive chef from the Off-shore Institute of Cooking, Bond has graduated a lot more than 1700 students throughout his tenure. Concurrently, the institute is becoming something of the city mainstay.

Bistro 101, with glass home windows opening towards the training kitchen areas, serves restaurant-quality food at nominal prices. There's a high probability the waiting staff made the cannelloni they're serving.

Possibly the key towards the school's success is location. Students are often brought beneath a highway overpass, over the pier past trawlers and anglers, and in to the legendary Granville Island Public Market.

In the past, the area would be a reclaimed sandbar, developed by sawmills and industry. Today, it's a frenetic social hive offering from a theatre company to recharge stations for planet. The marketplace is really a marvel, full of mounds of bananas, British pork pies, peonies and inflamed meringues. The odor of tamarind folds into cinnamon and freshly boiled bagels.

Bond appears perfectly attuned towards the pace of Granville but, together with his flourishing voice and emphatic arms, he's also difficult to miss. Vancouver citizens started to see his training expeditions in early stages. Soon they requested to tag along. So here i am on the brisk Friday morning, passing beneath a neon sign in which the public "Blocked-in Tour" begins.

Throughout 1½ hrs we'll cover an amazing record of subjects, from hydroponics to pod fishing to 10 kinds of apple ("Need to know that is best? Purchase one of every and check out all of them,Inch Bond states).

We'll even glimpse a harbour seal. The place prawn Bond pulls from his pocket results in an introduction to sustainable fishing. As he is completed speaking, he lobs the prawn over his shoulder in to the ocean a whiskered face emerges in the deep to swallow up.

Sustainability is not only a vital theme for Bond: it is a Vancouver-wide obsession. The city's This Seafood initiative serial codes individual creatures - 339,901 during the time of writing - around the premise that individuals have to know the foundation of the food.

Clients can trace their plate or buy to the particular motorboats, identifying the precise some time and location of the catch. One chef informs me this plan means aficionados of Northern Divine caviar, for instance, could possibly source the merchandise over and over in the same seafood.

Vancouver can also be the birthplace from the Sea Smart program. A collaboration between Vancouver Aquarium and most 450 providers, restaurants and marketplaces, its goal would be to promote sustainability by colour-certifying sea food based on population health. This program is becoming so ubiquitous within the city that savvy diners basically expect it within their options.

Oru Cuisine, with 55 metres of Jason Wu origami glued towards the ceiling, is a such adherent, meaning its tremendous sake-healed Haida Gwaii sablefish is offered up with no ounce of guilt.

At C Restaurant, opposite Granville Island, "Caviar returns having a conscience" is written towards the top of recption menus. Take advantage of Clark, the eatery's executive chef, labored carefully using the aquarium to build up Sea Smart. I request his chef p cuisine, Lee Humphries, if he finds the guidelines from the program restricting. "No, it isn't restricting," he states. "And it is the best factor to complete. We are so lucky within this place in the world to possess such abundance. Why wouldn't we safeguard that?"

Certainly, there is no noticeable effect on quality. Halibut - that grotesque seafood having a moving eye - turns into a snow-whitened beauty on the mattress of kale, propped up with a quesadilla wheel. Prawns on zucchini laces and ribbons come dabbed with fiery jalapeno sauce the muse was "a Corona on the beach in Mexico". Then there's a lobster claw in cognac cream sauce, that is so delectable it blurs the limitations of dessert.

Back on my small Granville Island tour, Bond steps past tubs of crabs and kusshi oysters and falls his hands right into a tank. "They are saying that lobsters possess the nervous system of the fly," he states, tugging one in the water. "I'm not sure what which means, however it enables you to feel good, does not it?"

Later on, we bustle from store to store, passing art galleries and artists. Whenever we walk into a bigger hall, entering the labyrinth of produce that's the general public Market, Bond's full passion flows forth inside a torrent of words. When creating tomato sauce, he recommends, put the vine within the cooling stew and then leave overnight for additional aroma. Before genetic modification, portobello mushrooms were just mature brown mushrooms relabelled for "sexiness".

The issue with blue cheese is plastic: "Should you wrapped your feet in plastic for 3 days, it can't wear some perfume, either. This really is alive. It sweats. You need to allow it to breathe."

Margarine, once meant for the war effort, transmits him right into a rage.

We achieve the Oyama Sausage Company, where shows are lined with pates and terrines. "You realize whenever you kill pigs?" he asks me all of a sudden.

"Not necessarily,Inch I answer.

He continues anyway, explaining that pigs that see other pigs getting slaughtered often become stressed, which affects the standard of the meat when they're slaughtered consequently. Then i follow him from the market right into a square, where we settle lower in a table to create mid-morning canapes with Black Heritage pig prosciutto.

Bond was created in a tiny mining town in great britan. Cooking abilities weren't exactly valued inside a guy, he informs me. Yet he pressed on regardless, signing up for a Yorkshire culinary school at 16 before learning Michelin-starred restaurants across France. He then migrated to Canada.

This unlikely road to award-winning maestro has fostered a mindset of "anybody can perform it". Today, he's the hallmark of each and every effective teacher: he targets confidence, encouraging a self-thought anybody may become otherwise a Ferran Adria, then a minimum of a much better prepare, a much better eater along with a more responsible consumer. It just takes small options. Tough, this is actually the common thread with the Vancouver food world, in the Sea Smart program towards the collective reverence for those things "local".

Bond hands me a bit of brie (or perhaps is it camembert?) that's hidden beneath a circle of aromatic truffle salami.

"Shove it in," he states, flashing a grin.

Lance Richardson travelled thanks to Tourism Bc and also the Canadian Tourism Commission.

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Remaining there

The Off-shore Rim Hotel leaves in the classic Fairmont style, offering a contemporary atmosphere that prioritises design. Rooms start at $C309 ($373) a evening. See fairmont.com/pacificrim. Oru Cuisine in the hotel is definitely an Sea Smart adherent, offering a comprehensive and worthy menu with west coast and Off-shore influences. The chef keeps your blog on dish creation and sourcing produce in the region. See orucuisine.com.

Eating there

- The Off-shore Institute of Cooking offers Granville Island market tours as much as four occasions per week. Price is $C40 ($48) an individual for that 1½-hour tour, or $C60 ($72) for any tour and buffet lunch at Bistro 101. See picachef.com.

- C Restaurant, around the shoreline of False Creek opposite Granville Island, is among the leading advocates from the Sea Smart program. See crestaurant.com.

- A database of Sea Smart participants can be obtained at oceanwise.ca. Info on the This Seafood initiative are available at thisfish.info.

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- Age

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En tournant la durabilité en art

LARDER LOVE: Fresh fruit, fish and cheeses at Granville Island Public Market.

When you turn up for a food tour to find your guide wearing a white smock and channelling Madonna, chances are you're in for something memorable.

"Strike a pose, there's nothing to it," Julian Bond says, adjusting his headset as we stand on a fishing dock outside the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, a school just south of Granville Island, Vancouver.

Moments later he is pulling a spot prawn from his pocket and lambasting ocean dredging in south-east Asia.

Then we're on to seafood snap-freezing (good), Styrofoam (bad) and the difference between brie and camembert (60 kilometres in France). Impassioned and furiously paced, Bond is nothing if not eclectic.

In April, he won the inaugural mentorship award from Vancouver Magazine. As executive chef of the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, Bond has graduated more than 1700 students during his tenure. Simultaneously, the institute has become something of a city mainstay.

Bistro 101, with glass windows opening to the training kitchens, serves restaurant-quality food at nominal prices. There is a good chance the waiting staff made the cannelloni they are serving.

Perhaps the secret to the school's success is location. Students are frequently ushered beneath a highway overpass, across the dock past trawlers and fishermen, and into the legendary Granville Island Public Market.

Historically, the island was a reclaimed sandbar, built up by sawmills and industry. Today, it is a frenetic social hive offering everything from a theatre company to recharge stations for electric cars. The market is a marvel, filled with mounds of strawberries, British pork pies, peonies and swollen meringues. The smell of tamarind folds into cinnamon and freshly boiled bagels.

Bond seems perfectly attuned to the pace of Granville and yet, with his booming voice and emphatic arms, he is also hard to miss. Vancouver residents began to notice his training expeditions early on. Soon they asked to tag along. So here we are on a brisk Friday morning, passing beneath a neon sign where the public "Plugged-in Tour" kicks off.

During 1½ hours we will cover a dizzying checklist of topics, from hydroponics to pod fishing to 10 types of apple ("Want to know which is best? Buy one of each and try them all," Bond says).

We will even glimpse a harbour seal. The spot prawn Bond pulls from his pocket leads to an overview of sustainable fishing. When he is finished talking, he lobs the prawn over his shoulder into the sea; a whiskered face emerges from the deep to swallow it up.

Sustainability is more than just a key theme for Bond: it's a Vancouver-wide obsession. The city's This Fish initiative serial codes individual animals - 339,901 at the time of writing - on the premise that people need to know the origin of their food.

Customers can trace their plate or buy back to the specific boats, pinpointing the exact time and location of a catch. One chef tells me this scheme means aficionados of Northern Divine caviar, for example, could feasibly source the product again and again from the same fish.

Vancouver is also the birthplace of the Ocean Wise program. A collaboration between Vancouver Aquarium and more than 450 suppliers, restaurants and markets, its aim is to promote sustainability by colour-grading seafood according to population health. The program has become so ubiquitous in the city that savvy diners all but expect it in their choices.

Oru Cuisine, with 55 metres of Jason Wu origami glued to the ceiling, is one such adherent, meaning its tremendous sake-cured Haida Gwaii sablefish is served up without an ounce of guilt.

At C Restaurant, opposite Granville Island, "Caviar returns with a conscience" is written at the top of the menu. Rob Clark, the eatery's executive chef, worked closely with the aquarium to develop Ocean Wise. I ask his chef de cuisine, Lee Humphries, if he finds the rules of the program limiting. "No, it's not limiting," he says. "And it's the right thing to do. We're so lucky in this part of the world to have such abundance. Why wouldn't we protect that?"

Certainly, there's no discernible impact on quality. Halibut - that grotesque fish with a migrating eye - becomes a snow-white beauty on a bed of kale, propped up by a quesadilla wheel. Prawns on zucchini ribbons come dabbed with fiery jalapeno sauce; the inspiration was "a Corona on a beach in Mexico". Then there is a lobster claw in cognac cream sauce, which is so delectable it blurs the boundaries of dessert.

Back on my Granville Island tour, Bond steps past tubs of crabs and kusshi oysters and plunges his hand into a tank. "They say that lobsters have the central nervous system of a fly," he says, pulling one from the water. "I don't know what that means, but it makes you feel better, doesn't it?"

Afterwards, we bustle from shop to shop, passing galleries and artisans. When we step into a larger hall, entering the labyrinth of produce that is the Public Market, Bond's full passion pours forth in a torrent of words. When making tomato sauce, he advises, place the vine in the cooling stew and leave overnight for added aroma. Before genetic modification, portobello mushrooms were just mature brown mushrooms relabelled for "sexiness".

The problem with blue cheese is plastic: "If you wrapped your foot in plastic for three days, it wouldn't smell good, either. This is alive. It sweats. You have to let it breathe."

Margarine, once intended for the war effort, sends him into a rage.

We reach the Oyama Sausage Company, where displays are lined with pates and terrines. "You know when you kill pigs?" he asks me suddenly.

"Not really," I answer.

He continues anyway, explaining that pigs that see other pigs getting slaughtered tend to become stressed, which affects the quality of their meat when they are slaughtered in turn. I then follow him out of the market into a square, where we settle down at a table to make mid-morning canapes with Black Heritage pig prosciutto.

Bond was born in a small mining town in Britain. Cooking skills were not exactly valued in a man, he tells me. Yet he pushed on regardless, enrolling in a Yorkshire culinary school at age 16 before training in Michelin-starred restaurants across France. Then he migrated to Canada.

This unlikely path to award-winning maestro has fostered an attitude of "anyone can do it". Today, he has the hallmark of every successful teacher: he targets confidence, encouraging a self-belief that anyone can become if not a Ferran Adria, then at least a better cook, a better eater and a more responsible consumer. All it takes is small choices. At base, this is the common thread through the Vancouver food world, from the Ocean Wise program to the collective reverence for all things "local".

Bond hands me a piece of brie (or is it camembert?) that is hidden beneath a circle of fragrant truffle salami.

"Shove it in," he says, flashing a grin.

Lance Richardson travelled courtesy of Tourism British Columbia and the Canadian Tourism Commission.

FAST FACTS

Staying there

The Pacific Rim Hotel departs from the classic Fairmont style, offering a modern environment that prioritises design. Rooms start at $C309 ($373) a night. See fairmont.com/pacificrim. Oru Cuisine at the hotel is an Ocean Wise adherent, offering an extensive and worthy menu with west coast and Pacific influences. The chef maintains a blog on dish creation and sourcing produce from the region. See orucuisine.com.

Eating there

- The Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts offers Granville Island market tours up to four times a week. Cost is $C40 ($48) a person for the 1½-hour tour, or $C60 ($72) for a tour and buffet lunch at Bistro 101. See picachef.com.

- C Restaurant, on the shore of False Creek opposite Granville Island, is one of the leading proponents of the Ocean Wise program. See crestaurant.com.

- A database of Ocean Wise participants is available at oceanwise.ca. Information on the This Fish initiative can be found at thisfish.info.

More information
See britishcolumbia.travel; www.canada.travel

- The Age

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