BCFresh Cook Off Week 8

Kosta Zogaris – Man of the Oceans; Man of the World. By Philip Till Vancouver – Kosta Zogaris is unstoppable! Beneath an unassuming demeanor and in his trademark fishmongers’ bright yellow sea-waders, Kosta Zogaris is a man consumed with a passion for the fruits of the oceans – and how to sustain those oceans for generations to come. Kosta’s motto could well be: “never, ever, waste food!” Many people are content to learn of their world from books, studies and surveys – not so Kosta Zogaris. His decades of learning come from hands-on experiences very few could boast. Kosta has traveled the world in search of oceanic knowledge and the result is an encyclopedic but non-judgmental insight into our evolving world. From visiting the bustling fishmarkets of Japan to taking a tortuous journey by riverboat to find a teeming secretive fish-plant in China run by a mysterious Godfather who served dinner from parts of fishes even Kosta hadn’t heard of! Then there was the time Kosta flew by rickety float-plane to the ice-covered Arctic in order to advise the Inuit people on how to prepare their catch for export; along the way Kosta’s curiosity got the better of him and ...