Engage

In 2016 we expanded from operations solely in Calgary to adding tours and training local guides in Canmore and Edmonton. Here’s a report documenting part of that story.    

We recently hosted Vacay.ca’s managing editor Adrian Brijbassi on our Calgary Farmers’ Market Sunday Brunch and food tour. I think we impressed him. He wrote this glowing article. I’ll leave you with a few visuals of our gorgeous Alberta produce to wet your appetite for signing up for a tour this summer.    

  Here’s a great article published in The Edmonton Examiner about our expansion to become Alberta Food Tours Inc. with divisions in Calgary, Canmore and Edmonton in 2016. We were very grateful to have set a crowd-funding record to support our expansion via ATB’s Alberta BoostR platform. We raised $22,105.00 in 45 days due to the…

  Calgary Arts Development has recognized Calgary Food Tours owner Karen Anderson as a Calgarian living a creative life that contributes to the overall development of the city. The Storytelling Project in which Karen is featured raises awareness about Calgarians who, by living creative lives, are making Calgary a better city, effecting positive change and enriching others’…

Country Guide Magazine February 16, 2016 Thanks going out to writer Steven Biggs who interviewed our founder Karen Anderson at length—and dug deep into her writing career —to portray the full impact of her work as a food writer and founder, owner and CEO of Calgary Food Tours and Alberta Food Tours, Inc. Catch the…

Toque and Canoe’s piece called The Artful Hotel – Where Every Room is a Gallery by Kim Gray features Calgary’s Hotel Arts – a business partner where we offer a private art and food appreciation tour called Palette to Palate. The Toque and Canoe article features several of our favourite paintings in the Hotel Arts’…

Here’s her article – Calgary 48. We loved having Arnette join us for our Palette to Palate art and food appreciation tour. She was a ton of fun and is a great appreciator of life, food and adventure. She fit right in! How about you? If you like great food, fun and adventure come on…

Alberta Food Tours has been proud to feature The Silk Road Spice Merchants on our Calgary – Inglewood Edibles – Made by Mavericks – food tours for many years. So it is with great delight that Alberta Food Tours owner Karen Anderson and her cookbook partner Noorbanu Nimji at A Spicy Touch announce a partnership…

A Spicy Touch – Family Favourites from Noorbanu Nimji’s Kitchen was recently launched and today was noted as one of the top cookbooks of 2015 in The Calgary Herald’s Cooking the Books – Cream of the Crop piece by Gwendolyn Richards. Alberta Food Tours, Inc. founder, president and CEO, Karen Anderson worked nine years with…

What a fun weekend Kristen and her friend Sarah had when they came to Calgary. Calgary Food Tours got to be a big part of their 48 hours and it was a delight. Check it out here: