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We Want This Wood-Fired Grill Apparatus for Chicken Deliciousness in the Great Outdoors

Cooking outside with a wood fire is one of those elemental things that just makes the entire experience all the more intoxicating. It’s part of the reason why we enjoy camping so much. Perhaps you’ve jerry-rigged pot stands, made a DIY rotisserie or built a three-zoned fire while cooking in the woods, but I doubt you’ve gone as far as this set up at Andrew Tarlow’s Achilles Heel in Brooklyn, where they do a Sunday night special called “Hell’s Chicken”. It sees spatchcocked birds cooked outdoors over live coals before being finished in cast iron. The apparatus is a mix of bricks, pots, a fire table, hanging hooks and interconnected metal pipes. It’s an inspiring arrangement for a backyard, to say the least, and one that could be elementally down-sized and reconstructed in the wild without too much difficulty if you’ve got enough campers in your crew to help shoulder the essentials (and eat the birds!). The Meat Show’s Nick Solares breaks it down with Achilles Heel chef Lee Derosiers (a former butcher). Get ready to drool…

UBC Farm’s Spring Workshops Make a Strong Case for Getting Your Hands Dirty

A full run of practical, well-built sessions that move from soil to kitchen, giving you a reason to start something new.

2026 CSA Guide: The Best Produce Box Programs in Vancouver. Score Before It’s Too Late!

Looking for a CSA in Metro Vancouver? Our 2026 guide breaks down the best produce box and farm share programs, with pricing, pickup details, and honest recommendations.

We Want to Jetset to Montreal for the Menu Extra & Dan Climan Pop-Up This July

This summer the Montreal artist, who sports cred as an Emily Carr School of Art + Design graduate, is growing his food-art relationship with a series of lux, collab pop-up we can only dream of attending. Time to buy a lottery ticket!

We Want to Quench Our Thirst for Spring with KPU’s New 桂 Reverie Beer

Our appetite for tasty and creative craft beer is bottomless. So the moment news of what students enrolled in the Diploma in Brewing and Brewery OperationsKwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) have been brewing up lately landed in our inbox, we got awfully thirsty...