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Archive for November, 2010

…isn`t about local food.  But it really has taught me a massive amount about local food. The show is sort of a documentary, part reality (in truly the best sense) and part educational.  I haven`t seen the entire thing but I can`t reccomend it highly enough. Turn Back Time: The High Street is a six [...]

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There`s a link way down at the bottom to all of the jars in this series so far.. Don’t mess with peaches! More fun Pimpin’ Preserves! It doesn’t have to be holiday, or winter themed! I just needed an excuse to use this great cowhide upholstery remnant that I found at MacFab. When I found [...]

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The combination of 9 days in a hotel room and the complications of a 5-hour time difference which makes me feel I should be sleeping when I am working and awake when I am lying in bed tend to lead to higher than normal consumption of television.  As a creature of habit, I tend to [...]

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For links to the entire series, look way down at the bottom and you`ll find a tag to each of the posts in this series. Here’s hoping that a lot of you are spending this weekend getting ready for the holiday…and perhaps Pimpin’ some Preserves for presents…entries have been a bit sparse and i’d LOOOOVE [...]

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As I am currently in the UK I am enjoying checking my `norms`around food and drink and learning about a different perspective that comes from living half a world away… I might make it to my first Football (known as `soccer` in North America) match (known as `game`) in a few hours from now.  It`s [...]

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For links to the entire series, look way down at the bottom and you`ll find a tag to each of the posts in this series. When it started to get cold a few weeks ago I bought some nice new socks….of course only a couple of weeks later…one of the socks decided to ‘get lost’, [...]

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As a bit of a prologue I find myself examining local food and connections to what I consume through very different eyes this week as I find myself enjoying Glasgow as part of a business trip.  It`s been an odd week exploring a different version of local as well as very odd seeing products that [...]

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For links to the entire series, look way down at the bottom and you`ll find a tag to each of the posts in this series. ** sorry for the late post today! Joel and are are working out the communication bugs with being in two different time zones** I’m going to be doing a series [...]

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It is the morning of November 23, 2010. I don’t know the time. I know that it’s 4:40AM back in Toronto but I left there about 10 hours ago. I’m in Glasgow, Scotland and it’s either 8:40 or 9:40 – an important difference as my first meeting is at 10:00AM. It’s going to be a [...]

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I will be heading across the ocean shortly – a trip for work that will be dominated by actual work but have some time mixed for food and drink.  I do get to go to Glasgow almost twice a year so I’m a little spoiled like that. I do know that I will have several [...]

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