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TODAY'S PRESS RELEASES

Burrowing Owl Estate Winery has hired Chef Bernard Casavant as Executive Chef of their Sonora Room Restaurant

Le Gavroche introduces their new menus for Spring with Prix Fixe versions priced at $35 and $50





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THE LOCAL INK

Vancouver Sun (Mia Stainsby) - Chef Dennis Peckham at Hart House and the Top Ten Cheap Eats List for Vancouver
The Westender (Andrew Morrison) - Derek Archer
The Georgia Straight (Angela Murrills) - Paul's Place Restaurant and Omelettery
The Georgia Straight (Carolyn Ali) - Where to go for Easter Brunch
The Georgia Straight (Jurgen Gothe) - Sandhill Small Lots Wine
North Shore News (Deana Lancaster) - Shalizar
Chowtimes.com (Ben) - Breakfast at London's Guido's
Gismondi.com (Anthony Gismondi) - The Italians at the Vancouver Wine Festival


Find all of the Local Ink filed in MEDIA/On the Newsstands this Week


THE OUTSIDE WORLD

Anna Nicole Smith and J Howard Marshall III, Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Bonnie and Clyde -- what famous pairs would look like if they were pears.

Thorntons (a British chocolate company) unveiled an 860 pound (390kg) pure chocolate billboard in London's Covent Garden. It took the public three hours to eat it.

Home away from home? Jeffrey Chodorow, yes the same guy who last month got himself into an uber-public food fight with critic Frank Bruni of the New York Times, has just opened his newest restaurant in New York and it is a tribute to the cuisine of the Pacific Northwest. Called Wild Salmon, the menus will offer three different species of the fish, all line-caught in Alaska and flown to New York -- business class, we presume. Here's a view of the menu. Interesting if even just to compare what plate prices our similar local ingredients would fetch in New York in US dollars.

A regal Riesling.

An Editor of Food & Wine Magazine blogs about eating in Toronto.

Seattle's Mathew Dillon of Sitka & Spruce was named as one of Food & Wine magazine's Top New Chefs for 2007. Here's the bio they provide: Matt Dillon, 33, is the chef-owner of Sitka & Spruce, a 20-seat restaurant that offers a home-style seasonal menu focused on local, organic ingredients. Before opening Sitka & Spruce in early 2006, Dillon worked at the Stumbling Goat Bistro in Seattle and The Herbfarm in Woodinville, Washington. His resume includes a stint as a professional forager.



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PEOPLE:

1) Fiona Morrow (Media)
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