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Archive for August, 2009

A local grocery giant is running compelling commercials demonstrating their commitment to eating local and persuading people to support local farmers by going to their store and voting with your wallet. Their definition of local appears to be Canadian.  This is not unique but important to mention for clarity on their delivery.  We live in [...]

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On our recent trip to the maratimes I gathered photos of some of the local fishing boats (boats which are often used for lobster and crab and sometimes for pleasure). I thought it would be a fun Sunday post to challenge you to come up with a name for your imaginary (or perhaps real) fishing [...]

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My Mother has been eating these for so long that I remember turning my nose up at them in favour of Kraft Dinner.  I`m not entirely sure what I was thinking as a teenager at the best of times – in this case I don`t have the foggiest. I assure you that this is the [...]

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The first answer that comes to mind is a very cheeky, `Whatever you want.`  While that`s not far from the truth, it wasn`t all that long ago that I found myself asking the very same question of these diverse clusters on mini-mushrooms (which, because of their size, in variably has me looking for tiny little [...]

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We spent the weekend of August 22nd-24th camping at Sandbanks Provincial Park in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Our trip included what is now a mandatory visit to Norman Hardie and his vineyard.  This is a magical place to me and one that is a very rare treat today – a chance to visit an amazing [...]

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Our truck veered off the road around 4:30 PM on a sunny Friday afternoon.  The feeling of dirt under wheel is a familiar and welcome memory and I remember simply feeling good about being back in the country. We had pulled over to visit a small farmers stand.  It was our third stop for food [...]

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We are so very fortunate – that is both the big giant “we” that the webiverse contains and the little tiny “we” that is Dana and I.  In the context of this post I can only share the details of the “micro-we”… ‘) Dana and I have now been to Prince Edward County 3 times [...]

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Purple Carrots?

You might think they’re a bit unusual, but up until the 15th century yellow and white carrots were the norm. The orange variety didn’t crop up until the 1500′s. According to the Carrot Museum (it does exist online and is very thorough) Dutch horticulturalists developed the orange variety by selective breeding. Apparently the yellow version [...]

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To this day I don’t know exactly what he said although I do know what he meant.  I had been confident for years the my Grandfather told me that “cold EATS cold.“ In retrospect, I have begun to question my young ears and wondering if his Acadian accent was saying “cold HEATS cold.“ It is [...]

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How to preserve crab meat

Let us just suppose that you find yourself in Nova Scotia one day soon.  Let us pretend that you are visiting family.  Let us imagine that they are wonderful and, to boot, they have access to very affordable seafood.  By very affordable, let us imagine that you can purchase almost 100 pounds of live crab [...]

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