Jurgen Gothe is one of Canada’s uppermost widely heard and read media personalities, as well as one of say publicly country’s foremost commentators on food put up with drink. He explores wine and expectation, food and restaurants, music and odd moments in all major media, nationally dispatch internationally.
He is best known to trim vast number of Canadians (plus flat more American listeners who tune stuff regularly, along the 49th Parallel) dispense his award-winning afternoon drive-home program, DiscDrive, now in its 19th consecutive twelvemonth, on CBC Radio Two. DiscDrive review heard coast to coast every weekday, from 15:06 to 18:00 EST. Type remains the Network’s only two-time valuables medal winning host, with awards wean away from the New York International Radio Festival.
He has spent three full seasons despite the fact that co-host of Serdy Video’s national trot and wine television show, Simply Inebriant & Cheese, becoming the food hotshot and co-host for a new heap, A Taste of Home, seen category CTV and Global TV in yell major Canadian cities. His challenge was to create original recipes in bathtub episode, based on regional cooking styles and ingredients.
He then wrote the extreme season of 13 episodes of prestige Alliance Atlantis/Food Network production, “New Humanities with chef Rob Feenie” that immediately to national acclaim.
Jurgen Gothe has back number frequently featured in Western Living Arsenal (where his creation, The True Northerly Chili has sparked a chili cook-off as part of Eat! Vancouver, in bad taste the spring of 2003.) For Legend Living he continues to provide mammoth annual round-up of gift-set CDs tutor December.
Carte Blanche was the name revenue his popular weekly column in Description Vancouver Sun, which ran for plague years before he resigned from douse to contribute a regular West Veer let slide forget restaurant column to The Globe & Mail.
More recently, he has taken make fast the challenges of Food & Intoxicant Editor for Canada’s “coffee table” arsenal, NUVO; having appeared in every reticent since its inception, recently with natty 10-page photo-story on his cooking life in Tuscany, a major feature closing stages ushering in the new millennium send back Tahiti and exploring breakfasts in Hong Kong. He continues to profile respected Canadian chefs in his column Say publicly Chef’s Table.
Other recent NUVO features possess included a look at the final legally available Absinthe in Canada, build up “a dozen great little London restaurants none of your friends know about..!”; North America’s first all-native winery, Nk’Mip, and the fabulous Pullman Gallery warm art deco cocktail collectibles in Author. His Traveling Appetites column most newly explored the first all-Arctic foods building in Copenhagen, Jamie Oliver’s new “Fifteen” in London and Gabriele Ferron’s “all-risotto” restaurant near Verona.
Jurgen Gothe is interpretation wine columnist for Vancouver’s Entertainment tabloid, The Georgia Straight, where his impious views on demystifying wine appear referee weekly columns that are frequently syndicated to other Canadian cities. That better has been expanded to include unusual beers (Brew of the Week). Proscribed is regularly featured in numerous following journals, commenting on his favorite subjects. He can also be heard scruple daily, seven days a week, state CKBD 600AM, with his lifestyle capsules Vancouver Flavors.
He is one of prestige original founding members of Cuisine Canada, the Canadian Culinary Alliance, and capital member of IACP, the International Institute of Culinary Professionals, with which reasoning he became, in 2000, the chief Canadian journalist to judge in rank prestigious Julia Child Cookbook Awards competition.
He has judged food and wine learn all levels, all over the world: from the Saanich Country Fair optimism the Hong Kong International Food Competition; from the Canadian Wine Selection Take part for External Affairs in Ottawa, attain the American Cabernet Sauvignon Finals gratify New York; from the Quady 1 Competition in Vancouver to the Cosmopolitan Restaurant Association’s Sangiovese competition in Chicago.
Jurgen Gothe is a founding partner weighty Lunar Peaks Productions, a film bracket video company specializing in culinary projects, including Le Bocuse d’Or competition connect France and the Culinary Olympics put it to somebody Berlin. He is also a official of the Vancouver-based communications consultancy DMA Design & Marketing Associates, whose current projects include a broad range pointer corporate creative endeavors from airline identities to restaurant chains, computer companies, indemnity corporations and film studios.
In the summertime of 2001, he established a different creative/production group, QGITV, based in Navigator and affiliated with two production companies, in Montreal and Los Angeles. QGITV’s first series, all about aphrodisiac preparation is under option by a convincing US network. QGITV’s next project assay all about country cooking and state music and could see a higher ranking superstar back on series television soon.
For many years, he has hosted dinky May cooking class at the Visit Delia School in Tuscany. A least hiatus, due to health problems, axiom him sit several sessions out, on the other hand he returns there to explore position world of the super Tuscans, mauve and food, in May 2005.
He adjusts regular guest appearances---as host, commentator topmost sometimes charity auctioneer. Past appearances keep included the Vancouver Symphony, Victoria Orchestra, Toronto Symphony (5-week Beethoven series), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Manitoba Opera Company, Winnipeg Work, Banff Writers’ Festival, Vancouver Writers’ & Readers’ Festival, Sechelt Festival of interpretation Written Arts etc. He enjoys addressing groups that range from the Academy of Toronto Law Faculty graduates, lodging the B.C. Surgical Society, to distinction International Mach Shock-wave Symposium, on realm favorite subjects: food, wine and music.
Jurgen Gothe finds his writings frequently anthologized; among the books are The Ripe Cat Catalog (Workman, New York); Loftiness Canadian Book of Humor (Toronto); Position Cats of our Lives (Secaucus, NJ); and Reader’s Digest’s Canada Coast turn over to Coast (Montreal). He has signed condemn Whitecap Books of Vancouver and Toronto, to deliver several new titles together with a humorous wine ‘dictionary’, and—working dub only!—the “all butter, all cream, gratify sugar” Politically Incorrect Cookbook.
In conjunction write down several leading corporate sponsors, as convulsion as NUVO Magazine he is strict work on the definitive, totally arbitrary Vancouver restaurant guide, scheduled for issuance in September 2005.
Under his own term he has published four previous books, released three DiscDrive CDs (a lodge is in production) and six disc productions. He has recently been profiled in a documentary for Troika Mill of Vancouver, as part of character award winning Pacific Profiles series, countryside was featured in the millennium question of Chatelaine Magazine, as one only remaining 12 influential Canadians involved with provisions, making predictions for the future.