Western Living, December2017

WESTERN LIVING // DEC 2017

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Feeling Blue This Reena Sotropa–designed room is the perfect example of the saturated-hue trend.

Get more design inspiration for 2018 on page 37.

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COZY UP W ITH COLOUR 37 // What’s Hot for 2018

We did some serious design homework to bring you a sneak peek at the key looks you’re going to love next year: think smoky glass, curvaceous furniture, tone-on-tone interiors and luxurious details that break the mould and look to the future.

44 // Northern Light

A historic community hall in northern B.C. gets a second life as a warm and welcoming home for a young family; the result is an inspiring renovation that mixes modernist sensibilities with rustic Scandinavian touches. westernliving.ca / d e c e m b e r

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design 23 // One to Watch

Ceramicist Kathleen Tennock takes some earthy inspiration for her work.

24 // Shopping

Retro-cool lighting, the prettiest pillows and cozy seating you’ll love.

28 // Openings

Hot new design shops coming to a neighbourhood near you.

30 // Events

Essential events happening this month across Western Canada.

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Take some design inspiration from the colonial-cool Calcutta Cricket Club.

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food 54 // Bites

Restaurant openings, kitchen gadgets and the classic Mexican dish you need to make now.

57 // Holiday Revival

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From roasted goose to plum pudding, retro holiday recipes get a delicious update.

travel 67 // The Unbeatable

Lightness of Skiing

We hit the slopes in Kimberley and Park City to find the most thrilling runs of the season.

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plus 74 // Trade Secrets

Designer Negar Reihani reveals her trick for mixing contemporary and traditional looks.

Revelstoke Mountain Resort: Royce Sihlis; Karin Bohn: Tracey Kusiewicz; Calcutta Cricket Club: Jared Sych

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WL // EDITOR’S NOTE

CELEBRATING THE CLASSICS

Q& A This month we asked our contributors, Do you have any traditional dishes you like to include in your holiday feasts?

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68 When I think of Christmas holidays, I think of creamy New England clam chowder (no flour) and classic English trifle: whipped cream and strawberries between layers of sherry-soaked cake. That was a Findlay family tradition prepared by my mother every Christmas Eve for as long as I can remember.

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23 I know it’s the holidays when I walk into my dad’s house and smell the garlic. Garlic with everything: bright purple beets, deep orange carrots and he darkest green Brussels sprouts, all roasted perfectly with huge chunks of purple organic garlic.

Behind the Scenes The team at House of Bohn—clockwise from top, videographer Kristin Korch, designer Karin Bohn and assistant Adrian Perry—set the scene for our feast of vintage recipes made modern. For more, see “Holiday Revival,� page 57.

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A few years ago, a friend of mine decided to host a Dickensian Christmas dinner party as part of an article he was working on. Reading A Christmas Carol and Drinking with Dickens— the latter written by Charles’s great-grandson, Cedric—he’d become intrigued by descriptions of dishes he’d never tried (roast goose for one, a cocktail known as a Smoking Bishop for another) and so decided to swap out his traditional family Christmas recipes for even more traditional ones, circa 1843.

About 10 of us feasted on relatively simple dishes—sage and onion stuffing, the said goose, a few sausages to compensate for the relatively tiny bird, a little applesauce. My friend took a few moments to read from the foodiest parts of A Christmas Carol, and we all toasted him for his idea of gathering us together for the night.

(Those cheers were fairly enthusiastic, thanks likely to our Smoking Bishops, which feature roasted citrus fruits and fortified wine.)

I was thinking of that night as we dug through our archives for this issue, looking for nostalgic recipes for local chefs to try their hand at updating (“Holiday Revival,� page 57).

While WL hasn’t quite been around since the time of Dickens, our 45-plus years of recipes are still a journey into past trends and classic meals. Vancouverite and Foodie of the Year Chris Whittaker opted to update our goose recipe from the December 1976 issue by incorporating more local ingredients, while Calgary chef Ryan O’Flynn put an Asian spin on Brussels sprouts (December 1982)—the base ingredient for his kimchi recipe. And in honour of my dad, who loved to make his own plum pudding, I’m keen to try Julie Van Rosendaal’s modern take on the dish.

But while I may be adding a few old-time dishes to my own Christmas table this year, I don’t need a Smoking Bishop in hand to offer you all hearty and heartfelt holiday wishes from all of us here at Western Living. I hope your own holiday table—whether loaded with classic literary feasts, fresh and modern twists or annual family favourites—is full of joy and surrounded by all the warmth of the season.

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Playing with Fire Kathleen Tennock Ceramicist, Whistler There’s a timeless elegance to stone—it’s one of the oldest materials in the known world. It’s also forever inspiring Kathleen Tennock’s uniquely decorative vessels. “I love the energy that a pebble has if you hold it in your hand,” the Whistler-based ceramicist muses. “It has such a beautiful weight and balance to it.” She achieves the stone-like textured look synonymous with her work through a variation on a centuries-old Japanese firing technique called naked raku. The beauty of raku firing is in its uncontrollable nature. “It’s just such a spontaneous process,” she says. But not all pieces, and roughly only 10 percent of her larger creations, can withstand the thermal shock. She deposits her clay still red-hot from the kiln into a basket of sawdust and shredded newspaper, which instantly goes up in flames, leaving wonderfully abstract patterns on the surface. —Christine Beyleveldt

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Down to Earth Tennock (pictured here in her Whistler studio) uses an ancient firing technique to achieve unique patterns.

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WLDESIGN // SHOPPING

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Forgo foliage for the chunky geometry and texture of the Woodman wreath ($32).

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$815, available at Tiffany and Co., tiffany.ca I’m thankful my medicine cabinet is truly behind closed doors—not for its contents per se, but the chaos that inevitably seems to take over the space.

(Must I hang on to every sample of youth-enhancing serum? Apparently, yes.) But with Tiffany and Co. launching its new home and accessories line, including a ruler, drinking straw, dishware and yes, this sweet first aid box, I may be inspired to create a little organization within (and encourage visitors to take a peek inside).

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Good Design

Pure pillows is a just-released collection (from $149) featuring global textiles sourced by designer Ami McKay and collector Kelly Taylor, and sewn and finished by tailor Salma Mohammad, a Syrian refugee privately sponsored by McKay and a group of Lions Bay, B.C., residents. Pure Design, Vancouver, purebyamimckay.com

Stone Age

Best known for her Caravaggio pendant light, designer Cecilie Manz has turned her attention to a new line of moss-grey stoneware jars and bowls (from $108), all made in Japan. Inform, Vancouver, informinteriors.com; Kit, Calgary, kitinteriorobjects.com

Ripple Effect

Layers of corrugated wood veneer form the basis of Studio Corelam’s multifunctional designs, including the Round a Bout 2.0 (from $350)—a collapsible storage-stool-meets-side-table with a removable tabletop that doubles as a tray. Studio Corelam, Vancouver, studiocorelam.com

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At Mûr, shop owners Danielle and Joël Cyr elevate the everyday with timeless, made-to-last goods. Case in point: 100-percent linen tea towels ($18) pretty enough to serve as gifts. Mûr lifestyle, Winnipeg, murlifestyle.com

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WLDESIGN // SHOPPING

Shine On

Kaymet London, the standard-bearer of aluminum accessories since 1947, now produces its complete line of trays (from $30) in six on-trend anodized colours: gold, blush, mocha, silver, pewter and black. Hut K, Winnipeg, hutk.ca

Balancing Act

As with his previous, widely celebrated work, Matthew McCormick’s new Mila light ($3,000) is a skillful balance of shape and form.

Matthew McCormick Studio, Vancouver, matthewmccormick.ca

Winning Combination

Now available in stores, Riobel’s new Momenti collection (from $555) takes a made-to-measure approach to bathroom hardware, allowing custom options for shape, tap and finish. Robinson Lighting and Bath, across the West, robinsonlightingandbath.com

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Stelton’s new EM Press tea maker ($105) infuses until you press down the plunger, bringing a swift end to bitterness—and in a stylish double-insulating vessel, no less. Atkinson’s, Vancouver, atkinsons ofvancouver.com

At Your Leisure

With its loose pillows and tufted detailing, BoConcept’s new Fusion daybed (from $3,119) exemplifies refined casual. BoConcept, Vancouver, boconcept-vancouver.ca

Enduring Appeal

For its Icon collection ($248 per roll), Cole and Son has updated some of its bestselling patterns in contemporary colourways. From left: Prism in pastel, Cow Parsley in charcoal. Kravet, across the West, kravet.com

Winter Whites

Graphic textiles from Portland’s storied Pendleton Woolen Mills drape a series of limited-edition chairs from Gus Modern, including the Halifax chair ($1,795). OMG It’s Small, North Vancouver, omgitssmall.com

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edMonton General Concern A name well known on the Edmonton design scene, Danny Ross is now bringing his own online furniture and interior design store to life in Manulife Place.

The space is industrial-chic, featuring exposed ceilings and concrete paired with natural wood tones. Designed by Ross himself, the store stocks pieces from Canadian studios such as Wronko Woods (a WL One to Watch) and Edmonton’s beloved IZM, one of Ross’s long-time clients.

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November 23 to December 24

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BY ALICIA NEPTUNE

VANCOUVER Shiny Fuzzy Muddy Holiday Show and Sale December 9 and 10 Art, craft and design come together in an intimate holiday show at historic Heritage Hall. This year’s 15thanniversary event features 31 makers, including Western Living Fashion Designer of the Year Claudia Schulz (right) showcasing one-of-a-kind statement hats and Maker of the Year Cathy Terepocki with her signature ceramic pieces. shinyfuzzymuddy.com

VICTORIA Live at Lunch: John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce December 6 Royal BC Museum curator Dr. Lorne Hammond shares the stories behind one of music’s most iconic cars: the Rolls-Royce that took the Beatles to Buckingham Palace. royalbcmuseum.bc.ca CALGARY Spruce Meadows Christmas Market December 1 to 3 If you’re craving a little classic holiday cheer, Spruce Meadows equestrian centre amps up the magic with carollers, live reindeer, homemade Austrian ornaments and twinkling lights aplenty (plus more than 300 vendors to peruse). sprucemeadows.com EDMONTON Butterdome Craft Sale November 30 to December 3 Shop handmade works from Canadian artisans in the University of Alberta’s iconic butter dish–shaped arena, and stock up on unique accessories and quirky toys for everyone on your holiday shopping list. butterdome.ca

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WLDESIGN // great spaces

JOIN THE CLUB

Calgary’s pretty-in-pink Calcutta Cricket Club is full of design surprises.

Palm fronds, Tiffany lamps and at least three varieties of Moroccan tile: looks like Calcutta Cricket Club has brought some colonial-era cool to Calgary…or maybe a little bit of 1980s Miami. “It’s like if an Indian gentlemen’s club were to meet the Golden Girls,” laughs designer Maya Gohill.

But though the mix is unexpected, it’s anything but chaotic thanks to a bold-butconsistent colour palette. Pinks, soft greens, golden tones and black accents—pulled from the landscape-print wallpaper adorning one wall—form the foundation for a look that fuses playfulness with retro elegance. Rattan arches separate the bar from the dining area, where custom tables (some topped with wood and others with Calacatta marble) are paired with plush seating (Structube designs that Gohill reupholstered in baby pink). Over at the tile-covered bar, a wooden leopard rescued from a vintage carousel provides a striking focal point.

That leopard is just one example of Gohill’s crafty sourcing. “I love vintage things; they have more character than you would find in a big-box store,” the designer says. The patio seats are school chairs she found at Salvation Army; indoors, the high-backed seats in the dining room were a Kijiji find; vintage photos of cricket players from the early 1900s were snapped up from eBay and hung on a bubblegum-pink wall. “My design advice is always, don’t hesitate to look in the most unlikely of places. Be fearless.” —Stacey McLachlan

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The backdrop of the bar is made with half-cut wooden dowels painted black.

Hip to Be Square

Linoleum squares were laid out in a checkered pattern to create the bold pattern on the floor.

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Davis, her husband, their two teenage daughters, the family dog, and all of their belongings were squeezed into a small Vancouver bungalow, where “we had been using plastic blue bins stacked up inside our closets to try and deal with storage,” says Davis.

Enter Blanchet, who identified Erin’s closet as “very small and unusable,” but found a solution: “We blew out a wall to make room for a closet that’s four times larger,” says Blanchet.

Davis couldn’t be happier with the results. “My husband and I have a big, beautiful closet now, with lots of hanging room and large, deep drawers, as well as a cupboard with glass doors,” she says. “The cupboard is perfect for days when I just want to toss a few things behind closed doors!”

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daughters each got a new closet, and Davis beams, “they’re enjoying cleaning their rooms.” Blanchet added shelves and hanging space to the laundry room to keep it tidy, and the family is no longer tripping over shoes in the front entranceway, thanks to a new, dedicated space for footwear.

The remodel has made life at the Davis home more peaceful. “We are all organized, and not running around looking for things,” explains Davis.

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Life is good.”

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HOMES From rooms drenched in saturated colours—inky blues and dusty pastels—to curvy new pieces and maximalist spaces, design trends for 2018 decidedly kick up the luxe.

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What’s Hot for 2018

Phil Crozier

I N T E R I O R S // A R C H I T E C T U R E // D E S I G N // L I V I N G

True Blue Calgary designer Reena Sotropa says tone-on-tone colour creates a cozy “jewelbox effect.”

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Let in the Light

BARELY THERE DRAPERY “People are really loving the airy, ethereal effect that yards of sheer fabric can create,” says Calgary interior designer Reena Sotropa. “Wall-to-wall sheers will finish off a space beautifully without making it feel too stuff y.

This, in combination with the soft, diff used light that results, makes sheer drapery a winner.”

The Right Filter Design firms McIntyre Bills (above), Elena Del Buccia Design (left) and Amanda Hamilton Design (right) demonstrate how sheer drapes diffuse light and add a touch of effortless luxury.

TRANSLUCENT TEXTURE

Smoked glass and see-through accessories and lighting inject that trending ’70s vibe.

R AC H E L M A R T I N U K , STE. MARIE ART AND D E S I G N , VA N C O U V E R Smoke on the Water This Bilbao coffee table (from $769) is black-grey glass on concrete for effortless cool. boconcept-vancouver.ca

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Double Bubble It’s a marriage of flirty pink tints and sci-fi with Tom Dixon’s Bump series (from $95). informinteriors.com

Nothing to Hide We love the subtle texture of these mouth-blown glass bowls ($385) by German-based Guaxs. providehome.com

McIntyre Bills: Gary Campbell; Elena Del Buchia: Lori Andrews

“Glass pieces— which will continue to be very popular through 2018—are presented in rich, warm, layered forms.”

Hot for Curves

AROUND THE BEND Get ready for coffee tables with organic shapes, curved sofas and a world of rounded accessories.

Serving It Right No squares at this dinner party with the Blu Dot Delicious Carrara marble serving trays (from $162). kitinteriorobjects.com

Round Figures Botanist restaurant by Ste. Marie Art and Design (top) pairs curved leather banquettes with rounded Tacchini chairs (from $1,200). bloomfurniturestudio.com

CIRCLE BACK

Botanist: Ema Peter

Going curvilinear evokes a sense of softness in textiles, colour palette and form, says the team at Frank Architecture.

A major movement in restaurant design, we’ll see more of this Art Deco–inspired seating, lighting and furniture spilling over into interiors in a big way.

Little Nest Christophe Delcourt’s BUI oak nesting tables ($7,240) show off soft lines with a handmade quality. avenue-road.com

Light Deco “The ’20s and ’30s are showing up in more relaxed forms,” says Project 22 designer Denise Ashmore.

The Gubi Beetle chair ($630) below has a sympathetic shape that crosses eras and works with lots of styles. informinteriors.com

Sculpture Club Designed by Toronto’s MSDS Studio, the Muuto Halves table is Picasso-style cubic perfection. kitineriorobjects.com

Ahead of the Curve Velour and soft edges on the Rolf Benz Tondo sofa ($14,300) make for one smooth ride. gingerjarfurniture.com

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Luxurious Floors

The 1970s still hail as a major design influence, and with them, comes terrazzo. “People may recall seeing it in more commercial applications like schools and malls,” says Calgary designer Elena Del Bucchia. “With new technology there are so many fun colour variations and applications—it’s definitely worth exploring if you are after a more whimsical ’70s look, and you can apply it to walls, countertops or floors.”

Rich Woods The future of woods is matte, oiled, warm and decidedly darker, as seen in this Ladner home from architect Jennifer Heath and interior designer Jane Dabrowski (right).

Hodgson Design: Carlo Ricci; Jane Dabrowski: Tracey Ayton; Reena Sotropa: Phil Crozier

TIME FOR TERRAZZO

Ciao, Bellissima In this 1920s church-turnedmodern-day artist’s studio designed by Vancouver’s Hodgson Design Associates (above), terrazzo floors tie all time periods together.

The Midas Touch Geometric tiles will continue to floor us in 2018, but regal gold and brushed-brass inlays are kicking high-end roomscapes into nextlevel. To get the look, check out the Odyssée collection (from $190 per square foot) from Montreal-based Mosaic Surface—there’s a glam tile motif for every style and space. mosaiquesurface.com

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THE NEW MONOCHROMATIC Layering tints and shades for that tone-on-tone look creates rich interiors in any singular colour palette—from saturated and sumptuous jewel tones to dusty pastels and greys. Here are three designers who are doing it right.

Pretty in Pinks Even bold colours like pink operate as neutrals in more subdued, dusty tones, like in this serene bedroom from Medina Design House.

Tone on Tone

We’ve Got the Blues In this living room, Reena Sotropa layers deep and vibrant sapphire jewel tones throughout, which makes the brass-and-marble Jonathan Adler coffee table pop.

Medina: Janis Nicolay; Kelly Deck: Barry Calhoun

Grey All Day From the dusty silver greens to the delicate tonal variations from floor to wall to coffee table— this Kelly Deck Design space shows grey isn’t going anywhere.

WARMED-UP GREYS Grey and its counterpart “greige” are holding strong, but designers are now heating up these cool looks by incorporating heritage red brick, rich wood floors and wood furniture, and warm metals like copper, gold and brass. Stanley suspension pendants (right) in hammered copper, brass and plated nickel (from $830), lightform.ca

“Colour palettes are moving toward soft pastels with poignant hits of jewel tones— like emerald, amethyst or ruby.”

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Shot of wood coffee table in silo on white

Make It Bold MAXIMALISM “The pendulum is swinging in the opposite direction of clean and minimal,” says Vancouver interior designer Karin Bohn of House of Bohn. “Where clean and soft spaces were once celebrated, now spaces will be layered with textured fabrics, interesting materials and sculptural shapes.”

Shoot the Moon This Paul Lavoie–designed living room is proof you can push colour (blues, pinks and purples), pattern and embellishments to the edge without losing cohesiveness, thanks to subtle repetition.

SHOWSTOPPERS

Dressing Up Modern chevron rattan looks positively 3D in this high-gloss black Carlo wood nightstand ($599). cb2.com

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Plant Forward The Bloc Studios Posture vase (from $305) is pushing the boundaries of planter design. flur.ca

Rock Out Every mesmerizing edge is illuminated in the sculptural white Rock suspension pendant ($1,096). lightform.ca

Art Attack Set the scene with this Lichtensteininspired pop art wallpaper, You Think?

Red. areaenvironments.com

Paul Lavoie: Jamie Bezemer

Enough playing it safe, this emerging ethos is about embracing the unusual, the distinct and the standouts that dare to make a statement.

Full-Press Pattern “I think paisley’s coming back into fashion. Mark my words...”

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FRONT AND CENTRE

Power Play Natural stone plays with funky patterned drapes in a kindred colourway for a Reena Sotropa–designed bedroom look that’s anything but boring (top right).

Pattern makes a move from accents to focal points in fabric, tile and wallpaper. (And don’t be afraid to mix and match!) “People seem to have a larger appetite for pattern in general,” says Sotropa, and are using hits of heavy pattern in the same way they had previously considered the once ubiquitous “feature wall.”

Reena Sotropa: Phil Crozier; Paulie Dhillon: Tracey Ayton

Grid Lock Two 3D panels of honeycomb break up an expansive wall, add visual interest and inject a touch of refinement to this Vancouver home from designer Paulie Dhillon (bottom right).

To Infinity “It” designer Jaime Hayon’s Leafo lounger combines futuristic quirk with modern styling ($4,091). informinteriors.com

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NORTHERN LIGHT A historic community hall in northern B.C. is transformed into a family’s modern loft.

by AmAndA Follett Hosgood // photographs by Rose mAtis

Scandi Cool Homeowner Caroline Marko transformed a former dance hall in Smithers, B.C., into a Scandinavian-influenced family home. Many of the accessories and furniture pieces are found items—like the shelving salvaged from a storage facility—and inherited ones, like antique Jieldé lamps from her mother.

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hen Caroline Marko first glimpsed her now adoptive home of Smithers, B.C., she feared the airplane was making an emergency landing. “There was nothing,” says the fiery Swedish-born redhead. But she stayed. Perhaps the region’s bleak, snowencased landscape fit with her minimalist upbringing, and no doubt the handsome Canadian she’d met on vacation helped. Nearly 20 years on, the classically trained tailor and owner of Salt Boutique brings her unique style to this northern community, most recently with the transformation of a historic hall into a chic modern loft.

When she first laid eyes on the old Elk’s Home, a former dance hall, she didn’t hesitate.

“When I saw it, I thought it was a great project. It was a team-building thing,” Caroline says, remembering the day her husband, Scott Marko, brought her here. For 64 years, the windowless two-storey building had stood awkwardly on a corner more than a thousand kilometres north of Vancouver, as if waiting for companions: it hosted weddings, dances and community meetings, but when the Markos bought it in 2014, it had finally found its family. westernliving.ca / d e c e m b e r

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“I like things that age,” Caroline says about the patina developing on her countertop.

“To me, those are the fingerprints of what my family does.”

Heavy Lifting The vintage Southbend stove (opposite, top left) is 800 pounds and was hoisted up from the basement.

Scott built the white vent overhead.

Vintage Cool The kitchen island (opposite, bottom centre) is an antique shopkeeper’s desk; the shade from the pendant light was salvaged from a snowbank. Caroline and Scott Marko (opposite, bottom right) sit at the table he constructed himself.

It’s in the Mix Scott made the dining table (right) out of two-by-fours from the ceiling; he also designed the black bench beside it. The chairs are from Antique Warehouse in Vancouver, and the ladder, which serves as a platform for the lighting, came with the building.

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Sweet Dreams The master bedroom (above) is in the space formerly known as “Mabel’s room,” rumoured to be a lounge for the teetotalling Elks.

Scott made the bed out of reclaimed timbers, and the bedside tables are wooden boxes found in a Swedish dump.

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From northern B.C.’s gritty streets, visitors enter the Markos home via an enclosed staircase tiled with repurposed red brick that leads to the upstairs living space. A taxidermied elk’s head, a relic from the fraternal club that once called this place home, keeps watch from above, seemingly unmoved by the burlap bow and eucalyptus wreath that now adorn its neck.

Founded in Vancouver more than a century ago, the Elks of Canada built its Smithers base in 1950 using materials recycled from the previously demolished post office—which explains the weathered fir doors crudely engraved with “NM, Nov. 11, 1931.” Stepping inside, the home is transporting: we’re no longer in small-town B.C. The home’s 32-by-36-foot great room, which recently boasted fabric-panelled walls, particleboard ceilings and linoleum flooring, glows with its pale palette. Formerly blank walls have been opened up with an 18-foot-wide, 12-foot-high bank of windows. The couple worked alongside their teenage children with Scott, a contractor, contributing labour while Caroline provided artistic direction.

A kitchen island fronted with an antique shopkeeper’s desk from the early 1890s draws in visitors. Caroline estimates that the hefty piece, a relic from her tailoring days, was moved 20 times before being laid to rest under an expansive raw-zinc countertop fabricated by local welder Austin Currah. An industrial pendant light illuminates the island, its shade salvaged from a snowbank in Clinton, B.C., and married with a compatible fixture. Additional lighting was sourced from Scott Landon

Antiques in Vancouver, while antique Jieldé lamps found their way from Sweden in Caroline’s mother’s suitcase.

“I like things that age,” Caroline says about the patina developing on her countertop. “To me, those are the fingerprints of what my family does.” The kitchen’s unlacquered brass taps by Kallista will do the same.

Already aged and standing stately against the back wall is a Southbend gas stove, likely purchased when the building was new. “This was one of the treasures that we were like, yes! We knew we wanted it,” says Scott. It took heavy machinery to lift the 800-pound stove from the basement through the upstairs windows, even before the couple had tried to light it to make sure it worked. Caroline was cleaning it when she uncovered printing under decades of grime: “I’m like, holy sh*t, it’s the instructions! Holy f*****g eureka!”

Above particleboard ceilings and a foot of sawdust— the roof’s only insulation—the couple found rough-sawn beams, also likely salvaged from the long-departed post office. Caroline feared a fight: keeping the beams meant adding a new roof, and she wasn’t sure Scott would acquiesce. “Then he goes, ‘Isn’t it cool?’ and I’m like, yessss.”

Structural tension rods allowed the original builders to create great spans, leaving the space open for large gatherings. Today, they add charm to the rustic ceiling.

Under the old lino flooring, the couple discovered maple planks, still slick with decades-old wax. “That’s the original dance floor,” Scott says. “It was a bit of a hazard, actually.”

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The boards were removed, reshaped and replaced before being finished with Minwax in classic grey.

“Mabel’s room,” named for a member of the Royal Purple, the Elks’ female auxiliary, and rumoured to have been a lounge for the otherwise-dry organization, is now the master bedroom, its textured grey plaster walls creating warmth on a chilly day. Scott made the bed from reclaimed timbers, while aged wood boxes pulled from a dump in Sweden function as bedside tables. Along with a clawfoot tub, the ensuite boasts a ceramic sink salvaged from a shuttered elementary school.

Perhaps as a result of Caroline’s own minimalist upbringing (“I never had a lot of toys, but I had a sewing machine,” she says), the kids’ rooms bear none of the frivolous accoutrements of childhood, but they still maintain a healthy sense of adventure: one of the few adornments between the rustic ceiling and modern concrete floor in her son’s room is a world map the 17-year-old stencilled onto barnwood; the whimsy in her 14-year-old daughter’s room comes from an eight-foot-high loft bed.

Perched on her kitchen island, strong coffee in hand, Caroline gazes out at the snow, considering her home: its history enveloping the community’s warmest events during long, cold winters; the expansive floors that invite family play, just as they have for more than half a century.

Not one to wax philosophical, she chooses her words carefully: “When I’m in here, there’s a deep calm,” she says. “It has a great feeling to it.”

Lost and Found The master ensuite (above) is also a lesson in great design with found materials: the ceramic sink came from a shuttered elementary school, and the clawfoot tub was salvaged as well.

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A Little Piece of Gastown More than a cookbook, the Gastown Foodie—the third in the Foodie series from photographer Brad Hill and author Chris Dagenais—is a guided tour of the cobbled streets, red-brick buildings and bright tables that make up this historic corner of Vancouver.

Dish recipes and cocktail how-tos from local chefs and mixologists run alongside atmosphere shots of Craig Stanghetta-designed rooms, historic photos of the turn-of-the-century neighbourhood, scenes of local street art in the alleys and dark, moody restaurant stills straight out of an Edward Hopper painting. It’s the story of Gastown, in coffee-table form, and that’s exactly what you need when you’re hunting for after-work cocktail ideas, locavore dinner recipes or ways to give out-of-towners a sense of the city. La Mezcaleria is just one such haunt featured in Gastown Foodie; turn the page to find the bubbling molten nirvana that is chef Mariana Gabilondo’s queso fundido recipe.

Party Time We had a staff party at La Mezcaleria last year where they served this queso fundido, and we’re still talking about it.

Recipe on page 54.

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Queso Fundido with Salsa Verde Mariana Gabilondo, executive chef, la Mezcaleria, vancouver Any combination of the cheeses or herbs below can be found in queso fundido variations throughout Mexico. Explore different combinations to find your favourite. If you have a good-quality molcajete—a volcanic-rock mortar or bowl—it will keep the cheese hot and melted. However, a heavy nonstick or cast iron pan that is all metal and can go in the oven is almost as good. A small porcelain casserole dish or large ramekin will work, too. In any case, check that the volume of cheese matches the size of the dish before starting.

Salsa Verde 450 g tomatillos ½ small white onion 1 serrano pepper Salt and pepper to taste Peel tomatillos, then cut in half. Cut serrano pepper in half, and quarter onion. Place all ingredients in a saucepan and top with just enough water to cover. Place a lid on saucepan, bring to a boil, then remove from heat, leaving covered for a few minutes to allow tomatillos to finish settling and the temperature to cool off a little. Blend everything together until smooth and check the seasoning. Add a little more salt if necessary. Set aside.

Queso Fundido 2 to 3 cups mozzarella, soft manchego or Edam ½ cup Gruyère or Emmenthal (or raclette, if you want something milder) 2 tbsp of basil, oregano or thyme ½ cup salsa verde Few sprigs of cilantro Tortillas or chips

1. Coarsely grate cheese, finely chop herbs and mix all together in a bowl. If using a molcajete or cast iron dish, place it on a small oven-safe tray and preheat at 400°F for at least 15 minutes. If using a porcelain or ceramic ramekin there is no need to preheat.

2. Transfer cheese mixture into baking dish and place in 400°F oven for 10 minutes. Carefully remove from oven and bring outside edges into the centre with a spoon to make sure cheese melts evenly. Place back in oven. Check every 5 minutes and mix with a spoon again when necessary.

It will be done when centre feels very soft and top begins to take on a nice golden-brown colour.

3. While cheese is in oven, heat up the salsa verde. Remove cheese from oven carefully and place on a heat-safe pad.

Pour hot salsa verde over top of cheese and add a few sprigs of cilantro. Serve with tortillas or chips right away; it will not stay melted long enough to wait on anyone and cheese does not like to be re-melted! Serves 4 as a starter. excerpted from The GasTown Foodie by brad hill and chris dagenais. copyright 2017.

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What we’re eating and drinking

The Art of the Bar Cart $32.50 Home design and drinks culture meet in the middle for The Art of the Bar Cart, from party planner Vanessa Dina.

Inside you’ll find 20 different bar carts styled around a theme (from whisky to the topical holiday cart) along with fun cocktail recipes to try out over the holidays and beyond. Chronicle Books, indigo.ca

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Okanagan Wine School Lesson #3: What the heck is minerality?

What do wine reviewers and mining journals have in common? Both are obsessed with minerality these days. In the wine world, the first trick is in the defining of it: the generally accepted parameters include a wine that tastes flinty, or tastes of wet stones, chalk or limestone. French Chablis, grown in famous limestone soils, is in many ways the prototypical example. The second trick comes from the contention of scientists that grapes and the consequent wine have little to no ability to actually absorb any of the minerals in the surrounding soils. Grapes don’t taste like minerals, so how can wine? Oh. But crack a bottle of the 2015 Sperling Vision Chardonnay ($32)—grown in limestone soils near Kelowna—give it a swirl, take a sip and tell me you don’t taste minerals. Go figure.

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Who Matt Phillips (founder and head brewer) Why we’re excited The brewery has a new tasting room, tour area and retail store in the works, while behind the scenes they’re building a state-of-the-art bottle-washing facility in order to reuse their bottles (as opposed to simply recycling them).

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Who Chef Ryan Blackwell (formerly of Coast and Bin 941 Tapas Parlour) and partner Josh Brennand (Catch, Notable and The Nash) Why we’re excited Locally sourced cuisine cherry-picked from all over Canada—think Maple Hill Farms–roasted chicken with cashew romesco and acorn squash, and Carmen Creek short-rib bison with saffron parsnip purée.

Mulled Wine Foodie oF the Year and cheF JP PEdhirnEy oF calgarY’s BridgEttE BAr shares his spin on a holidaY Favourite 1 bottle of red wine 2 clementines, zested and cut into wedges Zest of 1 lemon Zest of 1 lime 1 pear, cored and sliced 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half 5 whole star anise 1 tsp cloves 6 cardamom pods 1 tsp Szechuan peppercorns ⅓ cup caster sugar ½ inch knob of ginger ¼ cup dried cherries ¼ cup pitted prunes 2 oz brandy 1 orange, cut into small wedges

1. Pour bottle of red wine into a saucepot large enough to hold 2 to 3 litres of liquid.

Combine all ingredients (except brandy and orange wedges) with the red wine.

2. On very low heat, begin to warm mix-

ture, bringing it slowly up to a simmer.

Allow this to happen gradually so wine can absorb all of the dried fruit and spice flavour. Do not boil, as this will burn off the alcohol.

3. Once wine has reached a light simmer, remove from heat and allow to steep for 1 to 2 hours. Strain the now-mulled wine through a fine-mesh sieve. Place wine in a saucepot and gently warm again. When ready to serve, add brandy.

4. Brush the rims of 5 wineglasses with the orange wedges and garnish wetted rims with sugar. Carefully ladle hot mulled wine into each wineglass and serve.

Serves 5.

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Christmas Plum Pudding, December 1988, update on page 64

Brussels Sprouts with Pecans, December 1982, update on page 60

Roast Goose with Bread, Apple, Raisin and Walnut Stuffing, December 1976, update on page 59

Potatoes Anna, December 1982, update on page 62

HOLIDAY REVIVAL

We asked local chefs to put a modern spin on vintage recipes from our archives—plum pudding, anyone?—and the result is a whole host of new Christmas dinner classics. recipes by RYAN O’FLYNN, JC POIRIER, CHRIS WHITTAKER AND JULIE VAN ROSENDAAL photography and food styling by TRACEY KUSIEWICZ // table styling by KARIN BOHN

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“I think the general perception is that goose is quite fatty, with turkey being quite a bit leaner, and there was a movement in the ’80s to move away from saturated fats and to more ‘healthy’ unsaturated fats. Now is an exciting time for chefs because people love fat again—and so do chefs!”

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Roasted Fraser Valley Goose with Okanagan Apple, Squash and Cranberry Stuffing Goose 1 goose, 8 to 10 lb 1 small orange, halved 12 sprigs fresh thyme 12 sprigs fresh sage 1 garlic bulb, halved crosswise 1-inch piece of fresh ginger 1 shallot, halved 1 carrot, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces 1 onion, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces 1 celery rib, cut into 1-inch pieces Âź cup red wine Âź cup all-purpose flour Salt to taste

1. Remove neck and any offal from cavity of bird and set aside.

Rinse goose with cold water and pat dry with paper towel. Stuff goose with orange, thyme, sage, garlic, ginger and shallot.

2. Truss bird and flip wings under cavity for even roasting. Set

breast side up on a rack in a heavy roasting pan, and add 4 cups of water to pan. Cover goose with parchment paper, then foil, sealing foil all around edges of pan. Set on stovetop and bring water to a boil, then reduce heat to low and allow to steam for 30 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool. Season bird with salt and transfer the rack with the goose to a rimmed baking sheet.

Refrigerate uncovered overnight to allow the skin to dry. Strain pan juices and keep refrigerated.

3. Preheat oven to 350ËšF and place goose breast side up back

on the rack in the roasting pan. Roast until a meat thermometer inserted into the inner thigh reaches 155ËšF, basting every once in a while. In a separate pan, roast carrot, onion, celery and reserved neck and offal alongside until they start to caramelize (about 45 minutes). Reduce temperature to 275ËšF and continue to cook goose until temperature of the inner thigh reaches 170ËšF. Remove from oven, place on a rack set over a tray and allow to rest for at least 45 minutes.

Chris Whittaker: Evaan Kheraj

4. Meanwhile, set pan of vegetables and offal on stovetop,

deglaze with the reserved juices from steaming the goose and bring to a simmer. Simmer for 90 minutes and strain.

5. While vegetables are simmering, pour off the fat from the goose into a heatproof container, then return Âź cup of the fat to roasting pan along with the flour. Set pan over medium heat and mix until flour has absorbed the fat. Deglaze with red wine, then add remaining stock. Bring to a simmer, add thyme, garlic, shallot and sage from the cavity of the bird, and allow to simmer for 30 minutes. Strain, discarding the solids, and serve the gravy with the carved goose. Serves 4 to 6.

Stuffing 4 cups stale bread (cut or torn into 1-inch pieces) 1 cup roasted diced squash (½-inch dice) 2 tbsp roasted pumpkin seeds 2 tbsp dried cranberries 1 cup diced roasted apples 2 tbsp mixed chopped herbs (equal parts thyme, sage, parsley) 1 egg Salt and pepper Goose stock Preheat oven to 350˚F. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients, adding just enough stock to moisten. Transfer to a greased baking dish and bake for 1 hour, or until golden and internal temperature has reached at least 165˚F.

The Update

I don’t think it needs to be much of a departure, as goose with fruit is a very good flavour combination; however, I like to “localize� it a bit more. —Chef Chris Whittaker, Forage, Vancouver Where to Get Goose VANCOUVER: Two Rivers Specialty Meats, 180 Donaghy Ave., North Vancouver, tworiversmeats.ca CALGARY: The Better Butcher, 377 Heritage Dr. SE, Calgary, thebetterbutcher.ca

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efR n O’F ’s Kimchi Brussels Sprouts

“I am a first-generation Canadian raised by a Welsh family—our Brussels sprouts were always overcooked until brown with a square knob of butter dripping off to one side.

I still use that method today.”

1 head napa cabbage 2 heads bok choy 20 Brussels sprouts 1 large daikon radish 1 bunch green onions 10 tbsp salt 2 shallots, chopped 5 garlic cloves, sliced 1 large Asian pear, cored and chopped 1 cup first-press fish sauce (Three Crab) 10 tbsp maple syrup 10 tbsp coarse gochujang flakes

1. Remove all outer leaves and core

from cabbage and bok choy. Trim Brussels sprouts and cut in half. Peel and julienne daikon radish. Trim green onions and cut in half.

2. Generously salt cabbage, bok choy,

Brussels sprouts, daikon and green onions and let sit for a minimum of one hour.

Rinse well.

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3. In a food processor, combine shallots, garlic, Asian pear, fish sauce and maple syrup. Blitz until the consistency of applesauce, then add gochujang flakes to make a dark red paste.

4. In a large, clean bowl, toss salted vegetables with the gochujang paste, then store in a clean, sealable container.

Let ferment at room temperature for five days. Refrigerate afterward.

The Update

Essentially Brussels sprouts are little baby cabbages, but the kimchi makes them more elegant and more delicate. For our kimchi at the Guild we like to add maple syrup—a bit of our local terroir to kick-start the fermentation process. —Chef Ryan O’Flynn, the Guild, Calgary 6 0 D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 7 / westernliving.ca

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“For Christmas, my mom was always making a simple pomme purée with cream and butter. On the plate, you make a hole in the centre of the potato purée and pour some gravy.

Comforting and hard to beat.”

efJC i er’s Pommes Anna Tarte Tatin

2 large russet potatoes ¾ cup butter, melted 1 sheet puff pastry (8 by 8 inches) 1 sprig fresh thyme 1 tbsp maple syrup 1 75-g slice Oka cheese Salt and pepper Veal demi-glace sauce (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Peel potatoes and slice

into very thin rounds. (Using a mandoline is easier and more consistent.) Wash in salted water and dry very well on a cloth.

2. Generously butter an omelette pan or 6-inch

cast iron skillet. Place a sprig of thyme, a drizzle of maple syrup and a layer of potatoes on bottom of the pan. Continue to layer potatoes, brushing each layer with melted butter and sprinkling with salt and pepper, until pan is full.

3. Cut puff pastry into a circle the same diameter

as the pan. Place on top of potatoes and push edges down. Bake for about 40 minutes or until golden. Remove from oven and gently invert onto a baking sheet. Put slice of Oka cheese on top and return tarte to oven for 10 minutes, or until cheese is melted. Cut into slices to serve. Serves 4.

Veal Demi-Glace Sauce 4.5 lbs beef neck 12.5 cups water ½ lb leeks 1 lb onions ½ lb carrots ½ lb celery 5 cloves garlic 2 tbsp tomato paste 5 stems thyme 5 stems parsley 1 bay leaf 1 tsp black peppercorns, toasted Roast beef neck until caramelized. Transfer to stockpot, cover with water and simmer for 8 hours.

Roast vegetables and garlic, then add to pot with remaining ingredients and simmer for another hour. Strain stock, then pass through a kitchen cloth. Discard solids, return stock to pot. Simmer until reduced to 2 cups and ladle over the tarte.

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The Update

Pommes Anna is usually served as a side dish, I wanted to feature the potato as a dish on its own. The idea of the tarte Tatin gave me the opportunity to do so, as well as add a Québécois touch to the dish with the maple syrup and the Oka cheese.

—Chef JC Poirier, St. Lawrence, Vancouver

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Glam Holiday Tablescape The Update

I love creating holiday tables that are very “un-traditional� and unexpected! With the revival of everything vintage, including the ’80s and ’90s, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to take inspiration from those decades. Deep emerald green was big in the 1990s, and emerald green is a perfect twist on the classic forest holiday colour. By mixing shades of dusty rose (1980s) and burgundy, and throwing in some wood tones (1970s), this table feels incredibly modern with a distinct vintage flair.

How to Get the Look

1. I love flower arrangements that aren’t too perfect and that feel a little more effortless. These gorgeous loose arrangements by Celsia Florist combine all of our tabletop colours and create a really polished tablescape that feels relaxed but still incredibly elegant.

2. Metal is one of my favourite materials to use in decor. I love mixing metals, and for this tablescape we paired different tones of gold and rose gold to create a beautiful holiday sparkle.

3. Wood is a great accent material. Incorporating some wood into the place settings helps the table feel a little more casual because wood is natural and elegant without being overly glamorous or stuff y. The wood bowls reference forests and tree trunks, so they're a nice touch for a Christmas table.

4. Add unexpected colour! In this case, pairing dusty rose with burgundy is a surprising match and really lends itself to a vintage vibe. Unexpected colour pairings take any table to the next level.

5. Edit, don’t “over-decorate,� your tablescape. Often a holiday table can be layered with ornaments, glitter and Christmas decor. Stick to some key beautiful pieces and make sure you use an editing eye. You want to be able to showcase the food and see your guests, so use some soft candlelight and try not to add anything unnecessary to the table. —Karin Bohn, interior designer, House of Bohn, Vancouver Product Source List Linen in dusty rose, lonsdaleevents.com. Florals, celsiafloral.com.

Rose-gold chargers, rose-gold flatware, rose-gold napkin rings, green highball glassware, wooden bowls, crateandbarrel.com. Burgundy dinner plates, emerald throw pillow, dusty-rose feather tree, homesense.ca. Soft-pink salad plates, thecrossdesign.com. Burgundy linen napkins, bronze ornaments, cb2.com.

Pink mercury hurricane candle holders, westelm.ca.

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Ju e nR daal’s

Christmas Plum Pudding Redux Pudding 2 cups dark (Thompson) raisins, or 1 cup raisins, 1⁄2 cup chopped dried apricots and 1⁄2 cup dried cherries 1 cup orange juice or dry sherry 1 cup butter, at room temperature 1 cup packed brown sugar Grated zest of an orange and/or half a lemon 4 large eggs ¼ cup molasses 2 tsp vanilla 1 cup all-purpose flour 2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp baking soda ½ tsp nutmeg ½ tsp allspice ¼ tsp salt 1½ cups fresh bread crumbs 1½ cups chopped pecans 1 cup grated carrot (about 1 large carrot)

Brandied Hard Sauce ¾ cup butter, at room temperature 3 cups icing sugar ¼ cup brandy 2 tsp vanilla Brandy, warmed (optional, for serving)

1. Put dried fruit in a medium bowl. Warm up juice or sherry and pour overtop. Set aside for a few hours or overnight.

2. In a large bowl, beat the butter, brown sugar and orange and lemon zest until pale and light. Beat in the eggs, molasses and vanilla. Don’t worry if it looks separated—that’s OK. 3. In a small bowl, stir together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, allspice and salt. Add to the molasses mixture, stirring just until combined. Stir in the soaked raisins with their juices, the bread crumbs, pecans and carrot and stir just until combined.

The Update

Plum pudding is a classic and doesn’t need much updating.

I did lose the mace, which I’d wager next to no one keeps in their kitchen (was it a spice rack staple in the ’80s?), and I got rid of the milk, which gave it a loose, spongy texture. The biggest change I made was to cook it in a slow cooker, since steaming puddings on the stovetop is not a technique the majority of us are familiar—or comfortable—with. You get the same low, slow cooking time in a slow cooker, which traps the steam so you don’t have to keep checking to make sure the water hasn’t cooked off, and you can even leave the house if you want to. —Julie Van Rosendaal, cookbook author, Best of Bridge Sunday Suppers, Calgary

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4. Butter a 2-litre glass or stainless steel bowl that will fit inside a 5- to-6-quart slow cooker, and, if you like, press a piece of parchment into bottom of the bowl, folding and pressing to fit. Scrape batter into bowl. Place a dishcloth at bottom of slow cooker and place bowl on top. Pour hot water in to come about halfway up side of the bowl.

Cover, adding a layer of aluminum foil to seal if there’s a gap, and cook on low for 6 hours or until pudding is springy to the touch if you press it gently in the middle.

5. To make the brandied hard sauce, beat butter, icing sugar,

brandy and vanilla until light and creamy; cover and refrigerate for several hours, until firm.

6. Cool pudding for about 20 minutes, then run a knife around the edge to loosen and invert onto a serving plate. To serve, warm brandy in a stainless steel ladle and carefully ignite with a match.

Pour flaming brandy over the pudding and serve it warm, in wedges, with small spoonfuls of hard sauce. Serves 10 to 12.

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Rare Air The rolling terrain of Park City is not as dramatic as, say, Banff— but it gets massive amounts of the white stuff.

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This year we’re hitting an oft-overlooked gem in the Kootenays and examining one of the key holdings of the biggest ski company in the world, because we go where the snow goes. Who’s with us?

here was a moment —me, poised above a grove of aspens and about to sink into knee-deep powder—when I considered chickening out. My guide, Rory, had been speaking to me in encouraging but oddly non-specific visualizations all day—float your feet, keep your body moving—until now, on my first real attempt at the kind of boot-topping powder stash that’s basically the norm around Park City. “Core, core, core,” he says. That, I get.

I should qualify that, despite my trepidation, I’m a decent enough skier. But I’ve never quite mastered the thrill of the epic powder day that seems to be a siren call for my skiing friends, preferring the sweet, fresh tracks of perfect corduroy on groomers to any tree stashes.

“You know how you get better at powder?”

Rory asks when I explain that to him.

“You ski more powder.”

And really, why else would I head to Park City when the behemoth of Whistler Blackcomb is but a 90-minute drive from where I live? Well, for starters, as of 2016 both places are now owned by the same parent company—Vail Resorts—and there was some curiosity on my part to see what big skiing might look like in this new era. And since a nearly 2,500-metrelong gondola was installed between Park City and the recently acquired

PARK CITY, UTAH

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THE INS AND OUTS Where to stay, where to sleep and what to buy in Park City.

GETTING THERE There are direct flights from Vancouver and Calgary to Salt Lake City, and Park City is a short highway drive of about a half an hour from there. Salt Lake is one of the few cities to also have Uber Ski—four-seater cars with roof racks for your equipment.

STAY

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RECOVER YOUR POWDER LEGS Head to stand-up paddleboard yoga in the Homestead crater. Yes, it feels like you’ve stepped back into the ’60s once you wander down a narrow tunnel into the rustic mineral-water crater—its natural beehive roof curves over 100°F water that’s 65 feet deep. Balancing in warrior pose on a SUP is trickier than it looks, but once you’re over your fear of falling in (a dunk or two in the toasty water has that effect), the poses come more easily. Or the falls will. However you choose to spend your hour.

IMPERSONATE A LOCAL No, you’re not seeing a ’70s revival on-mountain: cult favourite Soul Poles (from $99, soulpoles.com) are made in Park City, so you’ll find an even higher number of bamboo poles per capita. Though they’ve got a retro vibe, Soul Poles are made from sustainable bamboo, and they’re twice as strong as aluminum—and just as light.

SOUVENIR FOR THE SADS BACK HOME Founded by Robbie Stout and Anna Davies in 2010, Ritual Chocolate is just off the main drag and crafts single-origin chocolate bars, complete with surprising tasting notes (dried fig, cherry and tobacco for the Belize). Or, for a serious step up from the on-hill machine hot chocolate, grab a cup of their sipping chocolate.

Park City: Raffi Asdourian

Canyons Resort, Park City has the second-largest skiable terrain in North America (behind, you guessed it, Whistler Blackcomb).

But the fact of it is, one of my reasons for being powder averse is the heavier coastal snow of my home mountain. I’m itching for a little champagne powder—and, frankly, the amount of snow Park City gets on any given day, let alone over a season, is enough to give me a restless sleep the night before my first day on the mountain.

All of which means the bar for a great day seems exceedingly high around here. When my friend expresses her excitement to a room service attendant on the morning we’re heading out, he shrugs it off as a nothing-special day. Wait, did we read the weather reports wrong? We did not. “It’s just 10 or 12 inches,” he says.

The thing about 7,300 acres is that it’s easy to get overwhelmed. My plan had been to stick to the trails that I knew worked, lest I wind up in powder hell (which is powder heaven to almost everyone but me).

Rory is here with us to blow up that plan and get us in deep—but first he spends the morning showing us the hill, past relics of the mountain’s silver-mining days. (The Mid-Mountain Lodge, for example, was once a miners’ boarding house.)

Until he leads us to the previously mentioned grove of aspens. My powder-pro friend boots down first so she can set up a video at the base to record my tumble for later posterity (and laughs). Core engaged, deep breath taken, and I’m off, and… doing okay! Instead of bailing, I’m cruising through the powder stash, and even the trees feel less threatening than usual. It’s no Warren Miller film, but there’s a giant grin on my face at the end of my video—and that’s enough.

At the end of the day we cruise down the Boa run to discover it’s only recently been reopened, and we find it lined with stashes of powder. And even though he’s ducked out for the day, I want to make Rory proud, and I do as he says, doing a powder sip here and there around the edges of each run. And then I’m full-on playing, dancing in buttercream, finding my floating feet, my solid core, my feet of powder. Lightness of feet, lightness of mind. Now I get it, Rory. —Anicka Quin

Main and Sky’s location in downtown Park City is in close proximity to the restaurant strip at night—no doubt why the Vanity Fair crew stayed here during Sundance—and the rustic modern design sees oversized sofas gathered around a roaring fire, with wide wood beams overhead. The white and bright reno of the historic Washington School House hotel is just a few steps off Main Street and a pretty study in contrasts: lofted one-bedrooms feature turn-of-thecentury furniture and a modern setting. For on-mountain accommodation, the Grand Summit offers ski-out access to Canyons Resort, and their Red Tail bar is the perfect spot to take skied-out legs for a hot almond cider.

Destination BC/Leigh and Spring McClurg

Just Right Fernie’s to the east, Whitewater and Red to the west, but Kimberley’s right in the middle.

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KIMBERLEY, B.C.

count a sum total of 10 skiers carving the corduroy beneath us as we ride to the top of the North Star Express on a brilliantly blue-sky March morning. No crowds. Reason number… to be honest, I’ve lost count…to visit Kimberley Alpine Resort. In the past I’ve given this lesser-known member of the Resorts of the Canadian Rockies family a miss when planning my skiing-holiday forays to the B.C. Interior’s embarrassment of winter vacation riches. Tucked into a fold of the Purcell Mountains northwest of Cranbrook, the resort, despite having the word “alpine” in its name, lacks the sort of abovetreeline bowls, chutes and alpine faces that command my attention as a travelling skier. But shallow first impressions can be deceiving. And besides, I like ski hills that come with a big slice of local community character, and Kimberley has that more than covered. It’s partly what prompted Torontoborn author, Globe and Mail columnist, adventurer and professional guest speaker Bruce Kirkby to plunk down roots in this East Kootenays community a decade or so ago—that, and the proximity to a ski hill and an airport with international

connections in Cranbrook, he tells me as we top out on the North Star.

We pause to take in a sweeping view of the Rocky Mountain Trench and the prominent spire of Fisher Peak, a well-known landmark up which local hero Scott Niedermayer hauled the Stanley Cup after winning it with the New Jersey Devils. After tightening buckles on boots, we double-pole across the flats then plunge into a warm-up ripper on a black diamond so buff you’d think it was groomed with toothbrushes. The run delivers us rapidly to the bottom station of the Easter fi xed-grip triple.

Minutes later we’re traversing along the cat track above the precipitous Black Forest Glades, a testing ground of steep bumps and trees. It’s terrain like this, as well as the bountiful top-to-bottom groomers, that has cultivated a rich crop of local skiing talent over the years, like former World Cup racer Gerry Sorensen, ski cross specialist Stan Hayer, telemark skier extraordinaire Monte Paynter and Paralympian Josh Dueck. I follow Kirkby into the Vortex, a steep slice through westernliving.ca / D E C E M B E R

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Learning Curve Kimberley has less extreme terrain than Fernie but more chill.

the trees that funnels into a natural halfpipe. Here and there pockets of well-preserved powder linger from a brief storm a few days earlier, so we opt to session the Black Forest for a few more laps. The Easter chair carries us above slopes also devoid of people, making me wonder if we missed an emergency evacuation order.

I’m starting to grow fond of this resort and its ample elbow room.

However, in my book a ski resort without a cool town in which to kick back and enjoy a few ales, some good eats and people watching is like cake without icing. Kimberley is a curious place. Decades ago, anticipating the imminent closure of the Sullivan mine (the underground lead, zinc and silver mine shut down for good in 2001 after more than 90 years of operation), the city patriarchs decided the town needed a tourism-ready makeover. Someone suggested that a faux Bavarian theme would suit Kimberley’s mountain heritage (at 1,120 metres, it’s Canada’s highest city). The town thoroughly embraced the concept, even in the absence of any authentic German culture, and set about recasting its downtown as a white stucco and timber-framed Bavarian village, complete with cuckoo clock. For years Kimberley remained 7 2 D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 7 / westernliving.ca

frozen in a kitschy Bavarian time warp, and the summertime accordion festival ballooned into an annual jamboree of old codgers in motor homes.

These days the Bavarian theme is waning, though the Old Bauernhaus Restaurant tucked into the woods between the ski hill and the town remains a favourite for a sprawling feast of schnitzel, jäger geschnetzeltes, spaetzle and other hearty Germanic fare. And while Kimberley’s new motto—A Good Place to Be—is not particularly inspiring, it nonetheless signals a contemporary change of course for the community. Gone is the accordion festival and the overarching focus on Bavaria, replaced by an outdoor hipster vibe that has the quaint three-square-block town centre buzzing. New businesses and cafés, like Stonefire Pizzeria and Pedal and Tap, have been joined by the Shed, a taphouse with a tasty menu, and the Over Time Beer Works brewery. Add to that the Spirit Rock Climbing Centre, the perfect place for some post-skiing activity, and a visitor like me will find plenty of off-hill distractions contained within an easily walkable town minutes from the slopes. Locals, I discover, are immensely proud of their town, but the lingering Bavarian motif is now more ironic than serious. They’re even proud of one of their gas stations—Centex, with its compact little food market where you can stock up on organic nuts, chocolate, smoothies, fresh-made deli sandwiches, espresso and kombucha available by the growlerful.

In the evening, after noshing on a double bacon at Stonefire Pizzeria, I return to the ski hill to catch the second half of the legendary Dirtbag Film Festival, held at the slopeside Kimberley Conference and Athlete Training Centre. This event was launched by Kirkby and Kevin Shepit years ago as a fun way to showcase photographic, filmmaking and storytelling talent drawn from a pool of luminaries like Invermere’s Pat Morrow, who was the first person to climb the Seven Summits (the highest peak on each of the continents) and is a well-known photographer and cinematographer.

The following morning, I draw open the curtains of my second-floor suite at Mountain Spirit Resort. The sky is a deep blue. A lone skier has etched a single track into the pristine corduroy below the North Star Express. There is plenty of room to roam in Kimberley, and it’s time once again for me to click into the carvers and make my mark on these deserted slopes. —Andrew Findlay

Skier: Destination BC/Leigh and Spring McClurg; Kimberley Apline Resort: Mike Reece

And besides, I like ski hills that come with a big slice of local community character, and Kimberley has that more than covered.

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