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Name: Mark Warburton

active 9:29pm · joined 2006 Aug 31 · 273 votes cast

Hi, my name is Mark and I love good food. ;-)

When filling out these profile things I'll often list my favourite foods or restaurants but of course that isn't necessary here -- you only need to look at the list to the right.

Anyway, here's my one minute food autobiography:

I was born in Victoria into a family that loves food. My mom is Swiss and has worked hard in the kitchen ever since her kids were born. My dad is English and is an appreciative diner and dishwasher. I grew up sitting next to the stove and watching Mom's every move as she concocted wonderful feasts. Much of our fare was prepared from scratch: home-baked bread, soups, pies, jams, kefir, birchermuesli, a dozen kinds of cookies at Christmas. We had apples, pears, walnuts, raspberries and plenty of vegetables in our garden. We picked blackberries in the countryside and went shrimping in the Pacific. There was always plenty of Swiss chocolate and cheese around too.

When I finished school and moved to Ottawa at the age of 22 I was pleased to find quite a good selection of restaurants. In the years since then the overall quality has improved quite a bit. Even better, the selection of foods and ingredients in our grocery stores and markets is continually getting closer to that of a big city. Tracking the availability of hard-to-find foods has always been a hobby of mine and until I created Ottawa Foodies there was no good way to share it.

I live in Nepean North with my sweet wife (of Portuguese descent) and wonderful boy/girl twins. Wifey loves to eat almost as much as I do and our kids are in training. I have parents and a brother in Victoria and a brother in Montreal.

In my professional life I'm a code monkey. For more info you can snoop at my resume: markwarburton.com

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Oct 27
Hi Mark,

I have problem finding old forum discussion.

My friend tried to check Juniper's group menu price for the company's Christmas dinner party. My friend told me that the owner who took the call wasn't very polite. He asked my friend to check the website in few days and they will post the group menu (instead of faxing the menu to my friend). I told my friend about the "birthday cake incident" and I wanted to locate the past discussion of Juniper here. I did a key word search of Juniper and can't find the forum discussion any more.
 
Oct 1
Hi Mark,

How is ottawfoodies bullfrogpowered? Are you running the servers on green energy or something?
 
Sep 16
Hi Mark,

I gave you a plug on my ottawa_consultants yahoo group:

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Most consultants I've met are also foodies . . .

Here is a good site I really enjoy: www.ottawafoodies.com

It's also a nice job technically, very well thought out, natural, functional and
performant.

Nice job Mark !

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Sep 1
Hi Mark,

I created a topic for A2 Milk, but nothing showed up, so I tried again about a half hour later. Now it show two entries for A2 Milk, but only one minute apart?

 
Aug 30
Hi Mark,

I tried to change the picture in my profile, but it wouldn't make the change . . .
 
Aug 25
Hi Mark,

I wrote my pizza recipe last night on the forum. When I hit "post" it times out. Are you able to locate it anywhere? it took so long to write :-(
 
Aug 5
Mark,

Should this one be in the Travel category?
ottawafoodies.com/forum/2051
 
Jul 19
Hi Freshfoodie, I have problem searching. When I tried to search "T & T", nothing shows up.

Also, some of the items in the forum can be flagged as TRAVEL. Can I do a search within the TRAVEL site only?
 
Jun 22
so jealous of the EGG! hope you enjoy it.
 
Jun 1
OMG - that pizza looks amazing! The Grand is totally on my list.
 

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