Seen and Heard in Edmonton

Meet Lillian Tse, whose quest to master the art of making macarons led her to create her food blog, Beyond Umami.

Lillian and her husband, Dan, clearly get great joy from cooking together, and she chronicles their culinary adventures with scientific zeal. You learn a lot from a Beyond Umami post. Her macarons look exquisite, even when they go wrong, and I can confirm that they taste as good as they look. (Don’t worry, I didn’t eat them on mic.) She sells them, too.

You can find Lillian on Twitter (@beyondumami) and on Facebook, too.

You can also get it on SoundCloud, in iTunes, or on Stitcher.

Here are Lillian’s recommendations, some of which she shared on the blog and some of which she mentioned to me later:

• Edible Woman
• The Tiffin Box
• All About Ami
• Snippets and Seeds
• Little Miss Andrea
• Let’s Om Nom
• Life’s Too Short… Buy the Shoes

Shout-out to Sharon Yeo of Only Here for the Food for first encouraging Lillian to blog. What a legacy Sharon has for nurturing Edmonton’s food-blogging scene.

Lillian also recommended a book by Dianne Jacob called Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Memoir, Recipes, and More. And she mentioned Food Bloggers of Canada offers great resources, too.

This episode is brought to you by Mother Earth Essentials, which blends Aboriginal knowledge and traditions with the finest ingredients to make 70 different products, including tea, soaps, lotions, essential oils and more. In this episode, you’ll hear Carrie Belcourt talk about how she came up with the idea and what it has led to.

Mother Earth Essentials is one of the local businesses highlighted this holiday shopping season by Make Something Edmonton. Read more on the Make Something Edmonton blog.

Musical credits: Beethoven’s Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1, played by Daniel Veesey, from freemusicarchive.com.