Past Culinary Adventures

Culinary Weekend at Sooke Harbour House
a tremendous success

Nick Versteeg, producer of DV Cuisine and Sinclair Philip, owner of Sooke Harbour House joined forces to offer another inspiring culinary weekend from February 25-27, 2005 at the scenic Sooke Harbour House, situated on Vancouver island's wild coastline on the strait of Juan de Fuca.

The focus throughout the weekend was on food education and tasting of local food, spices and herbs, edible flowers and an abundance of fresh local seafood. A variety of fascinating film seminars on food related issues were presented by Nick Versteeg. The Sunday morning seminar focused especially on the topic of the "Slow Food" movement in Canada and the world. We were fortunate to have Alessandra Abbona with us, who is a gourmet chef in Piedmonte, and one of the top leaders of the Slow Food movement in Italy.

We were also very honoured to have Vicki Gabereau and Bill Good amidst our culinary guests. On Saturday afternoon everyone was free to enjoy the beautiful surroundings, or take part in a fabulous wine-tasting seminar, conducted by Sinclair Philip, and his son Benjamin, who are both extremely knowledgeable on BC wines.
There is no doubt that our guests left relaxed and inspired and, judging from our evaluation sheets, we believe that everyone is eager to come back to have a second taste of this wonderful culinary weekend.

Our guests said:
"Accolades to you! An exquisite weekend - intimate and engaged, culinary and dangerous. Count us in again!"

"Thank you for an "incredible edible" experience, set in an exquisite natural bounty! Every element was thoughtfully and elegantly executed. We feel so spoiled and so excited by all we learned. Congratulations!"

"What a swell weekend - food, wine and entertainment. Thank you so much!"

First DV Cuisine Culinary Cruise to Alaska a great success

Chef Hartmut Handke and producer Nick Versteeg of DV Cuisine joined forces to offer culinary seminars and food demonstrations on the Alaska-bound Celebrity Cruise ship "Infinity" from June 13 - 20.

While sailing the beautiful BC and Alaska coast, Nick showed and talked about a wide array of West Coast products, and Master Chef Hartmut Handke gave interesting cooking demonstrations with these products.

The cruise was a great success! Some of our guests' comments were:

"I thought it was perfect, the week was very well
planned and I was entertained and informed"
- Karen Carlberg, Columbus Ohio

"Excellent presentations, great intriguing videos leave viewer wanting more"
- Jim Rodgers, San Francisco.

"Very enjoyable - an excellent combination of cooking and fun"
- Bob and Barb Monnaville, Powell, Ohio