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It’s no secret that things have been quiet over here at Eat Vancouver for a month or so now. A lot of it is due to the departure of Dan Fishman and his popular “Fishman The Grape” column. Dealing with life in Vancouver in the wake of Dan’s departure has probably also negatively affected my productivity. Fortunately, however, Eat Vancouver has recently gained a new writer, one who I think will bring a valuable new perspective to the website.

Mark Freeman is a freelance writer living in Vancouver. He comes to us from Toronto and more recently much of Asia, as well as Egypt. I’m very excited he’s joining the staff here, and I can’t help but think bringing him on is a John Schuerhotz-like pickup, gearing up for another playoff run. Not the 2007 Scheurholz, of course, but more like the 1995 version. Fred McGriff, not Mark Texiera.

In Mark’s own words:

I first became involved in the business of cooking and eating when I attended an all-girls private school in Japan and I got stuck in the cooking course, where I wasn’t allowed to do anything but cut vegetables and add ketchup to meat on monthly “European Cooking Days”. Since then, I haven’t learned how to do much more in the kitchen but have discovered that other people do know how to do things in the kitchen and that I should eat in their restaurants. I’ve spent the last three years living in Asia, with a couple months in Egypt and before that I lived in Toronto, so I’ve developed fairly eclectic tastes in food and will eat anything that stops moving long enough for me to stick a chopstick in it.