Postcards from Good Food Jobs: James McKerricher

We interrupt our regular programming to announce something we’ve been excited about for a while now.  It's in collaboration with Good Food Jobs, a website dedicated to helping people find meaningful work in the food world.  The site is run by two fantastic ladies, Taylor and Dorothy, who send out weekly newsletters with tips and advice, regularly feature people working jobs in the food industry on their blog, and post thousands (there are over 12,000 right now!) of food-related jobs to their website.

As part of our partnership with Good Food Jobs, we’ve made some short videos about Canadians we’ve found doing unique, inspiring, and/or just plain interesting work related to food in Canada.

Our first video brings us back to the summer, to the very beginning of our trip.  Remember James McKerricher? 

How could you forget?  This guy is both a chef and a kayak guide, and works on Spring Island off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island for a pretty impressive company called West Coast Expeditions.

Watch our video to learn more about his journey!

Read more about our time eating and exploring on Spring Island in our three post series, and enjoy the video!

Spring Island (Part 1/3): A West Coast Adventure
Spring Island (Part 2/3): Salmon Feast!
Spring Island (Part 3/3): Wild Food

-DV

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The NORTH

Because I grew up in Prince George, everyone in the Lower Mainland believes I’m from the Great White North.  It’s true that we do we get a decent amount of snow, we need to plug in our cars during the winter, and it does take nine hours to drive to the ocean, but let me tell you what’s really north:

North is driving for 20 hours from Prince George and still not reaching the BC/Yukon border.

North is wandering around in the bright, bright light of day, and suddenly realizing it’s not the day at all.  It’s midnight. 

North is when Google maps starts suggesting you take gravel roads with little or no signage.  These roads are typically meant for semi-trucks, not your tiny Yaris.

North is when the front of that Yaris starts to look like a grizzled bug graveyard. 

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North is when you visit a bakery, and discover the baker completed the world’s toughest dog sled race.

All of these things and more, these are the north, and each of them made me feel like I grew up in southern California.

From Haida Gwaii we headed up to Dease Lake, then onto the Yukon the next day.  This was brand new territory for me, and I was smitten. 

Next up: Whitehorse.  

-LA