Patagonia Provisions Salmon Jerky

Rebuilding sustainable fishing practices through traditional techniques in the BC interior

As pioneers of the organic cotton manufacturing movement, California’s Patagonia is always one to push their limits to provide a superior product that they’re proud to put their name on. After a number of unsuccessful attempts to break into the food market over the last 30 years Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard finally found the right recipe—with salmon jerky. Known for its arduous life cycle and …

Tasty Tweets

Turning trends into smoothies

by Nestor Bailly For those who have ever wondered what their tweets taste like, students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interactive Design (CIID) have created a working prototype that represents data from the Twitter firehose in the form of a smoothie. Konstantinos Frantzis, Kat Zorina and Ruben van der Vleuten use the Twitter API to gather mentions of fruits like blueberry, apple and pineapple. Their …

OnOurTable

Solid wood cutting boards and butcher blocks made by hand in the Great White North

When product designer Geoffrey Lilge agreed to outfit the kitchen and dining room of his wife Cindy’s future award-winning restaurant, Highlands Kitchen, he unknowingly started a new career. His newfound love of solid woods and their simple purity led to OnOurTables, an evolving collection of artisan-made kitchen objects. Making hand-polished, solid wood charcuterie boards, cutting boards, butcher blocks and other kitchen accessories in his Alberta …