I feel like I haven’t addressed something very important that’s happened this week. Do you know what I’m talking about? The fall of Condé Nast’s Gourmet Magazine has been the talk of the social networking world since it’s abrupt announcement on Monday morning. As a self professed food whore, I am saddened by this great […]
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Before I was a lonely home cook, slaving away in the kitchen all evening only to have dinner be rejected by my own spawn for the much preferred scrambled eggs a la Papa, I used to work in some pretty fabulous restaurants. These fabulous restaurants taught me many things, but the thing I value the
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Recently, I’ve been inundated with a lifetime supply of apples. Not only do we buy them every weekend at the farmer’s market, people are giving them to us left, right and centre and there is also a scraggly little tree in our new backyard sporting several dozen tiny, hard-as-rock mystery apples. After piling them all
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Have you ever been to a restaurant that evokes that certain kind of emotional response? The atmosphere is rustic and charming, the food simple yet elegant. The smells and sounds are what draw you in, but the real anchor is waiting at the table. That is what Merridale Cidery in The Cowichan Valley does to
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I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m not a big fan of cold weather. Which is strange really. I’m one of those women who needs it to be cool to sleep (you know the ones. The husband wants it to be warm, but the wife doesn’t. Someone always suffers. Well, it isn’t me).
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