A Cook Not Mad - Culinary Storytellers

Welcome to A Cook Not Mad, a Food & Travel Website

We are Tim & Nat, Canadian Travel Bloggers living on beautiful Vancouver Island, Canada.

After selling our business and wrapping up all of life’s loose ends we were ready to give ourselves to the adventure of a lifetime. We started keeping an online journal so our family and friends would know what we were up to. Like so many other bloggers, when we returned we noticed other people were interested in what we had to say and so continues our journey.

Tim and Nat, Canadian Food Travel Bloggers

What’s In a Name?

The Cook Not Mad: Or, Rational Cookery is considered to be Canada’s first cookbook published in 1831. In its day it claimed to represent “…Cooking, in its general acceptation, to the taste, habits and degrees of luxury, prevalent with the Canadian public.”

Its aim, as well as ours is to provide you with tips and inspiration to not “go mad” in the kitchen or on the road.

Canadian travel bloggers visiting a market in Bologna — A market in Bologna

A Cook Not Mad is also a play on words of our obsession with food, its preparation and consumption. Our idea is to travel with a chef’s stomach for a compass and document our findings with a photographer’s eye.

To get an idea of the food adventures we’ve had, here are a few popular posts:

Eating, Sleeping and Making Love

Reverse Wedding Crash

Sea Legs and Beer in the XXX City

Nat, a Canadian travel blogger, on a boat in Amsterdam — On a boat in Amsterdam

Join us in traveling farther around the world in search of honest food and delightful scenery. Our hope is to at least entertain you with a story, possibly tantalize you with some mouth-watering food and maybe even inspire you to get off the couch and get into the kitchen or start your own adventure.

If you’re into social media, follow us on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter for more pictures and up to the minute updates.

Disclosure: some of the links in our posts are affiliate links; if you click on one and buy the specific product or a product you reach through that link we will get a few dollars which will help us with the upkeep of this website.