Les Dames d'Escoffier

Deadline for scholarships January 31! Great year to learn some new skills and advance your careeer in hospitality. Funds available to study wine, culinary, agriculture, nutrition, aquaculture and more!

Pickling is the next DIY trend. Les Dames d'Escoffier - BC Chapter member Chef Angie Quaale shares some of her pickling tips and recipe in this The Vancouver Sun article.

One of our biggest supporters over the years has been John Bishop. Bishop's Restaurant had been of the first to grasp that food grown close to home just tasted better. They continue to support local and have recently announced they're staying open in that treasured locale on 4th avenue. John donated tables yearly for our Summerdine fundraiser and went all in and gifted us funds for an entire scholarship in his name! He was our well deserving honouree at our 2014 Gala!... Current menu features Lesley Stowe Death by Chocolate! Perfect for Valentine's day!

If you are on the Island and can make it out January 17th, please support Junior Culinary Team Canada

Our New York Dames recently presented a webinar. Les Dames d'Escoffier New York DYK that harassment remains a pervasive problem in foodservice workplaces, and may have only been exacerbated by the pandemic?

What are your goals this year? We will be home more, so if you have a little time, and energy, on your hands, here's some tips. I struggle to keep things in order and constantly must reorganize. On strategy I employ is to keep a list my condiments in my fridge, and cabinets and spices in my spice cabinet, and update as I deplete. CJA

GREAT NEWS! The World’s Newest Michelin 3-Star Restaurants Are Both Run by Women Hélène Darroze and Clare Smyth capture an honor that has been elusive for female chefs.

Join Restaurants Canada and support your LOCAL restaurants. Restaurants do more than nourish the body and the soul. They also feed the economy before COVID-19, foodservice was the fastest-growing industry in Canada, generating $93 billion in sales in 2019. Now, half of all local restaurants are at risk of closing within a year. You can help kickstart the recovery. Support your local restaurant

Happy New Year from all of us Dames! A brand-new year which will certainly present some challenges. Here's to having the energy to rise to those challenges. Stay safe and keeping on working together in 2021! United we can't fail!

Catching up with Chef Nuit Regular of Toronto's Kiin I needed to stay true to myself and the way I want to present my food because it’s important the way I grew up and learned how to cook and I didn’t want to be ashamed of who I am."

Shout out to female butchers! Thanks to our sponsor, Two Rivers Specialty Meats for schooling more of our scholarship winners. We can't wait until we can send more of our scholarship winners out to class.

This upcoming exhibition sounds fascinating and encompasses the history of food photography from early still lifes to cookbooks to Instagram. Stir Vancouver shares some of the delicious details

There are HUGE sales on at The Gourmet Warehouse right now! Still time to get your holiday shopping done, or pick up that cooking tool you need to do your own holiday cooking right! Zwilling Canada set with a bonus cutlery set shown here. Support our Dames!