Lunch at Allen’s is amusic co-operative and an institution in Toronto.
Each member has their own singing and songwriting career. Murray McLaughlin, Cindy Church, Marc Jordan and Ian Thomas stop by the studio in the barn to talk road food, their favourite places to eat when on tour. I then find Colin James at home on the west coast and he wades in on his best places to find food comfort on the Road.

Star chef David Hawksworth (West) and Barbara Jo McIntosh of Barbara Jo’s Books to Cooks, both in Vancouver, walk us through two new trends in food – “Molecular Gastronomy” and “Under Pressure” (sous vide).

Not only is Devine Wines in Edmonton a fine wine store, it’s been described by The Globe and Mail as a gathering place where wine lovers exchange notes on their latest discoveries and swap tasting notes on new wines. We gather three of the staff for a chat in a crammed office. Albertans are the luckiest wine buyers in Canada, find out why.

Keith Holman, from Holman/Lang Vineyards in the Okanagan, takes time in the barrel room at Soaring Eagle on the Naramata bench to explain some of the history of the area and how they won Best White Wine at the Fall Wine Festival.

Wine Diva Daenna Van Mulligen has just released her Top 50 wines between $20 and $50. If you’re thinking of shopping for wine gifts for someone special, .this is a primer you can use.

BC’s second largest private wine store Everything Wine has opened its doors in North Vancouver. We gather three talented staffers to walk us through the shelves and give us a sense of the amount of wine available within their walls. Some say, it’s the future of wine buying.

One of the highlights for Jason Priestley and myself while we were shooting year two on Hollywood and Vines TV in Spain was meeting young winemaker Daniel Ramos, just North and West of Madrid. He makes Zerberos Garnacha and 7 Navas, all from vines 40-90 years old. But there’s a problem in his “forgotten” wine region. Big co-ops are taking out the old vines with the help of Euro governments. PLUS he has a war on with a local shepherd who’s wiping out his plants.

Pierre Phillip, is the general manager of Les Vignerons de Buzet. Wine in Buzet traces itself back to Roman times. It’s an area between Toulouse and Bordeaux.
He makes 12 MILLION bottles of wine for a price point well below Haut Medoc.
His Canadian rep Pat Ellis joins in the conversation.

NEXT WEEK
Jason Priestley, actor, producer, director and co-creator and co-host with Terry of the tv series Hollywood and Vines which will air its second season on Canada’s Super Channel in the new year.

Leonard Cohen’s son Adam, talks about his father art and his love of wines.

Whether its Foie Gras, Marrow, Butter, Bacon, Lard, Drippings or Suet, it’s all FAT. A lively discussion with Jennifer McLagan, the author of the new cookbook FAT.

The authors of Urban Italian – Andrew Carmellini and Gwen Hyman join Barbara Jo McIntosh and Sebastien LeGoff who all discuss cooking Italian and the wines that go with it.

The Wine Diva comes back after many days in Chile!! Lots of new info for you.