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Dan Clapson

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Author of the best-selling cookbook 'Prairie' 🔗👇| writer | Wish We Never Met podcast co-host 🎙️| @bluejaysessions creator 🎵 he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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Dan Clapson’s Biography

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Dan Clapson is a best-selling author and award-winning writer. He has contributed to a wide range of acclaimed publications including Out Magazine, The Globe & Mail, Air Canada enRoute, Eater, Xtra, Canada’s 100 Best, Calgary Herald, Eat North, Food Network Canada online and many more. Regarded as one of the top authorities on the country’s restaurant scene, he serves as a panelist for national restaurant award programs such as Canada’s 100 Best and Air Canada enRoute Canada’s Best New Restaura…

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A delicious recipe for pesto toast inspired by my time in Prague

A delicious recipe for pesto toast inspired by my time in Prague

An easy pesto recipe to make with Prairie-grown ingredients

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Dan Clapson shares two Prairie-inspired dishes to feed your Super Bowl crowd this weekend

Dan Clapson shares two Prairie-inspired dishes to feed your Super Bowl crowd this weekend

Tackle these recipes to win big with your guests!

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Dan Clapson shares four farm-fresh recipes celebrating the Canadian Prairies

Dan Clapson shares four farm-fresh recipes celebrating the Canadian Prairies

The dishes draw inspiration from the beauty of the changing seasons as well as the many different ingredients…

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How Diners in Hawai'i Lovingly Protected a Classic Midcentury Canadian Steakhouse

How Diners in Hawai'i Lovingly Protected a Classic Midcentury Canadian Steakhouse

Hy's Steakhouse was synonymous with Calgary dining in the 1950s, but as Canadian tastes have changed over the…

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Prairies are epicentre of evolving Indigenous food scene

Prairies are epicentre of evolving Indigenous food scene

Winnipeg has more Indigenous-owned-and-operated food businesses than any other city in Canada, while Edmonton…

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Coffee with a conscience: Prairie businesses promote fair trade and community programs

Coffee with a conscience: Prairie businesses promote fair trade and community programs

A look at how two Prairie-based companies are coupling humanitarian aid efforts with their single-origin ingr…

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Made In Canada Dip Spread

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By Dan Clapson Verified
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All-Purpose Dip Very tasty on its own, this “all-purpose” dip recipe can serve as the foundation for a never-ending list of flavour profiles. All you gotta do is fold in a few delicious Canadian ingredients that sing together. Here’s my go-to dip recipe with a few ideas for amping up said dip that draws inspiration from the five main regions of Canada.
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Extra Loaded Baked Potatoes Three Ways

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A beautiful (and affordable) blank culinary canvas like a baked potato is an all-season recipe, but have you ever thought of a baked potato as a full-on meal? I love making “extra” loaded baked potatoes for dinner parties with friends and filling them with seasonal combinations. Since it’s summer, I am leaning into barbecue chicken, grilled veggies with a Greek-ish flare, and burgers, but the sky is the limit here.
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Blue Jays Home Opener Recipes

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High-Low Blue Jay Spritz This is the ultimate “trashy-chic” cocktail, and one that I make at my event space in Calgary all of the time. It’s part nostalgia (you know that electric-blue non-lemonade lemonade, right?) elevated with the botanical complexity of a Bianco vermouth and richness of frozen berries. It’s a drink of contrasts: the deep, jammy purple of macerated wild blueberries against the neon-blue lemonade, balanced by the floral, vanilla notes of the vermouth.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first paid food writing gig was composing short monthly restaurant features for Food Network Canada's website in 2010.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

For fun? Yes. To write an article? No.

How is social media changing news?

It's interesting to see who many people can have a voice these days via social media. That is a good and bad thing, obviously!