Well Preserved

The Holidays are fast approaching and I’m very excited.  This is my favorite time of year – lots of chance to spend quality time with those I love while generally sharing wonderful meals and libations.  I’m a sucker for the Holidays. Christmas is a big holiday around these parts for us.  The biggest tradition is [...]

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Dana’s parents have been visiting this weekend – I love having them around and enjoy our house when there’s a few extra people in it.  It just feels like there’s a special occasion to me. Food is the third most enjoyable thing in my life.  Friends and family are number two.  Friends and family with [...]

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I turned 38 yesterday. It was a great day – I`ve long given up being upset at another year and enjoy the day.  It was a fantastic day. Dana surprised me by bringing me to one of the oldest Steak Houses in Toronto – called the Tom Jones (not after the singer).  Neither of us [...]

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I have a lot of English in my blood: my Mum and her family came to Canada on boats when she was 13 – except aunt Marg, she got to fly! but that’s another story – and my grandparents on my Dad’s side were both English…so along with a love of football (or soccer if [...]

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We`re visitng my parents today – we had planned to be back in the city this morning but a bout of post-vacation colds has us lying low and enjoying an impromptu Easter feast with my folks, my Aunt from New Brunswick and her daughter (who now lives in Shanghai). As I was thinking of writing [...]

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It`s a Holiday Monday today.  For those from other parts (otherwise known as `not round here`), today is known as `Family Day`in Ontario.  A relatively new holiday bestowed upon us a few years back by the Government who decided it was time to have a Holiday in the middle of winter.  I have to admit [...]

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My Uncle was a Milkman for many years.  It wasn’t that uncommon 30 years ago – and is a tradition that I believe continues to this day in some parts of rural Nova Scotia.  I was able to join him for a day of his deliveries about 15 years ago and found it to be [...]

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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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It had been a tough week – lot`s accomplished, lots to do and little time in between. I came home with a bag of `groceries` (and a bag of wine).  Hot Dogs, White Buns (joking that they were 100-mile since the manufacturing plant that makes them is less than 2 kilometers from here) and potato [...]

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