The Weekly FBC News for August 24th, 2015

FBC Weekly News for August 24 | Food Bloggers of Canada — Sweet Thai Chili Chutney by Kitchen Heals Soul as seen in the FBC Food Photography Group on Flickr

We are getting dangerously close to the end of August friends! Summer is almost over and we're gearing up to launch ourselves into the (very!) busy fall and winter season.

We have got so many exciting things coming this fall for our members including, of course, FBC2015 in Montreal in October. We just returned from our last trip to Montreal to work on exciting things like menus and menu tastings (so so good - you will love the food!), floor plans and AV requirements and all the other fun things that go into planning a three day conference! The conference is already 70% sold out so if you're thinking of attending, don't miss out - our room rate for the conference is only guaranteed until Sept 22nd! You can get your tickets here!

Culinary Travel Opportunity to Ireland

FBC member Laura Goyer from The Culinary Travel Guide will be hosting an exciting trip to Ireland from October 19 - 26 to explore the culinary treasures of the Emerald Isle. Highlights include a cooking class at the world renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School, a cooking lesson at the home of Ireland's most famous chef, Catherine Fulvio, dinner at Fade Street Social (the flagship venture of Ireland's MasterChef, Dylan McGrath), a tasting tour of Dublin, wild food foraging, a tour of the English market in Cork, an overnight stay at the magnificent Dromoland Castle, and much more! Email Laura at info@theculinarytravelguide.com for more information.

#BackToHealthy Twitter Party

Don't forget to join us tomorrow night (Tuesday, August 25, 2015) for the #BackToHealthy twitter party with Litehouse Foods. There are over $1000 worth of prizes to be won as we chat about getting back into fall and back to school routines. You'll need to RSVP to be eligible for prizing.

Melt Recipe Challenge

Five FBC Members are participating in the Castello Melt Recipe Challenge. If you want to show your support for them, you can go vote for your favourite recipe from either The Yum Yum Factor, Haute Sucre, Kitchen Trials, Art and the Kitchen or Beyond Umami. You can cast your vote here. Good luck to all five.

KitchenAid Torrent Blender Winner

Congratulations to Sara Brunner of Soul Nutrition Consulting. Sara was the winner of the KitchenAid Torrent Blender giveaway. Thanks again to KitchenAid Canada for providing the prizing for the contest. Enjoy your new blender Sara!

New Members

After a few weeks off while we travelled east, we've processed all our outstanding membership applications. Wish a warm welcome to our newest batch of Canadian food bloggers. We're glad to have you join us! Because there were so many, we've broken them out by province so you can find some new friends near you!

BC

Alberta

Ontario

Quebec

Nova Scotia

I Say Nomato (NS)

Members Abroad

Rough Eats (UK via NS)

Businesses

The FBC Food Lovers Newsletter

If you love food then you might just want to subscribe to our new newsletter: The FBC Food Lovers Newsletter. Twice a month we'll be featuring great posts from FBC members, some of our favourite food instagram accounts, great recipe finds on pinterest, some of the food highlights on FBC over the last few weeks, as well as occasional delicious offers from some of our partners. You don't have to be an FBC Member to join - you just have to love food! All you have to do is click here to subscribe!

And remember, if you have anything you’d like to share with your fellow members in the news, please let us know about it. To have your submission appear in a Monday news post, the deadline is Friday at 5pm Pacific time. You can send your 3-4 sentence submissions directly to Melissa and include any relevant links.

As always, Ethan & Melissa