GRANVILLE ISLAND

Granville Island Market Cookbook II

Judie Davis Glick came to Vancouver in the early '70's and lived in Fort Langley with her husband, Fred, just as the BC Provincial Land Commission was starting.  A planner by profession, Judie recognized early the resource of Fraser Valley farm land to Vancouver.  In the summer of 1977,  Judie brought produce from a local organic farmer to the new Gastown farmers market.  " It doesn't usually pay to be ahead of the time!"  Keeping their day and night jobs, ( Fred worked at the local lime plant)  they came into the Gastown Market for two years before being recruited to the Granville Island Public Market in 1979.

Judie and Fred started selling produce in the public market from opening day in 1979.  The juice bar then was just the small south edge of the existing site.  "Customers always wanted to know how the fruit tasted and now we had the chance to give them the opportunity to taste it and to educate people about fruits and vegetables".Judie has always been interested in food; from writing a food column in an underground newspaper in Detroit in the ‘60’s, to being quoted  in" Appetite for Change: How the counter culture took on the food industry" by Warren J. Belasco, and continuing with the publication of the Granville Island Market Cookbook in 1985.  That book, co-authored with Fiona McLeod, showed the rise of the "80's food entrepreneurs”.

We were here, in Vancouver, at the Public Market at the beginning of the explosion of food as a profession, an avocation, and of course, a passion. 

Judie celebrates the food history and future of the Granville Island Public Market.

Google Maps.