By Leslie Savage To celebrate the wrap up of local soccer team, my grandson and I made a video about making Soccer Berry Pie. We also made Hockey Puck Pizzas, which you can see next week as the Stanley Cup playoffs come to an end — great combo game supper. This is cheesecake pie, really, [...]

By Leslie Savage Media influence rides a wave, in food as elsewhere. Some years, all is doom and gloom, while other times we’re on the upswing. For instance:The 1950s — postwar exuberance sees cookbooks from Life extolling the virtues of glam Euro-imports such as truffles and snails as guests burble over cocktails at the barbeque. [...]

By Leslie Savage Strip loin steak Unfried fries The Saturday Community Market re-opened last week on MacKenzie Avenue in Revelstoke. The chill this week does make April seem like “the cruelest month,” to quote T.S. Eliot, but hyacinths are in bloom on 5th St. East, and the weather is changing. Gardeners across town are building [...]

By Leslie Savage The winds of change blow fairly gently through Revelstoke, but “We need a co-op in Revelstoke” is a phrase I’ve heard more than a few times lately. In your view, is Revelstoke ready for a co-op? The survey at the end of this article may help to answer that question. Whether or [...]

  by Leslie Savage It’s an event when fresh fish is available in Revelstoke. Halibut is in this week in Revelstoke at Cooper’s–a rare treat that explains why it was so exciting for me to find a restaurant where the chef serves what he catches—and to go fishing with him. Talk about locavore. Later this [...]

Weaning children away from chocolate at Easter is as likely as finding a magic polka-dot bunny under a snowbank, but some parents and grandparents welcome alternatives. Bingo, the cake pop. Cake pops are a new addition to birthday parties in Revelstoke, providing a fun way to eat a small amount of cake and lots of [...]

“From earliest days,” write the authors of Chocolate Bible, “chocolate was regarded as a substance of power, a gift from the gods, a source of vitality and life.” Cacao, the tree and bean that yields chocolate, is believed to be native to Central America, the land of Olmecs and the Mayans, although it’s now grown [...]

Bula! Greetings from Fiji, the land of coconuts, papaya, mango, avocado, bananas, breadfruit and papaya. And hot springs. All local.Fiji consists of 322 islands scattered over a million square miles of the Pacific Ocean, 5,100 km   southwest of Hawaii and 3150 km northeast of Sydney, Australia. Most of the islands are volcanic; just over [...]

Wow, it’s that time again. Really. Because if you want a turkey from Ray the Butcher,  tomorrow is the deadline! I tried to buy a turkey to cook for this week’s column and can tell you that until next week when Cooper’s gets in an order placed yesterday, there ain’t any turkeys in Revelstoke. Not [...]

Have you ever torn out your hair trying to find a recipe?  Looking for my own Lemon Gelato, I went though ten pages (arrggh!) of Revelstoke Current archived material before hitting the jackpot. Not surprising, as Savage Delights now totals almost 200 recipes. (Note to self: keep binder updated!) The index below started as an [...]

Lemon Pound Cake with Glaze and Piped Roses Gluten-free Chocolate Cappuccino Cake With Mother’s Day just around the corner, it’s time for the rest of the family to hone some skills in the kitchen. Making a cake is like making music — you have to pay attention to the audience. Adult cakes tend to be [...]