Not well, I’m afraid. You can’t really even call it a garden, seeing as it’s just a few pots on a windowsill. Add to that the fact that it’s an east-facing window and the potential harvest gets smaller and smaller. Funnily enough, I have my few pots of vegetables and herbs surrounded by various tropical [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
Harvest Wednesday Dinner – July 23rd
I never manage to take decent photos of the food at the Harvest Wednesdays Tasting Nights, but at the actual prix fixe dinners, where the food isn’t rushing past with a hundred hands grabbing at it, the photos are a little easier to snap. As a recap, Harvest Wednesdays is a weekly event at the [...]
The Land of Chocolate
Today I will write the post about the GD chocolate book!!! In fact, there’s no need for cursing. The chocolate book, aka. Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light by Mort Rosenblum was a magnificent read that I thoroughly enjoyed. Which is why I felt it was so important to review it here, and [...]
Remembering Sher
When I started editing the Fit Fare blog on the Well Fed Network back in February of 2006, one of the first writers we hired was a firecracker of a lady named Sherry Cermak. She had trouble figuring out the blog interface we used and would email me regularly to ask me how to upload [...]
The Food Emporium
When I was a wee thing, one of my greatest delights was stopping at the bakery counter at Simpson’s where my Mom would buy me a gingerbread man. Simpson’s was an old Canadian department store, at that time paired with Sears (old folks referred to it as “Simpson-Sears”), and then later bought out by the [...]
The Deadwood of Canadian Food Safety
Saturday’s National Post had an article about how the Canadian Food Inspection Agency plans to allow companies to police themselves when it comes to health and safety inspections. The document, addressed to the president of the agency, details how the inspection of meat and meat products will downgrade agency inspectors to an “oversight role, allowing [...]
Back to Basics – The Silver Lining
First, let me say that I’m not happy about the world food crisis in so much as people are starving and dying and rioting over the cost of rice. That’s not really what this post is about. However, in the western world, we’ve had it pretty easy for a very long time in terms of [...]
Tea-Totaller
A Social History of Tea Jane Pettigrew The National Trust Every afternoon at 3pm, I have a cup of tea. It doesn’t matter the weather or the season, if it’s hot I’ll have it iced, but every afternoon, barring some great calamity, I take a break from my day to have a cup of tea [...]
Dinner in the Sky
Sometimes it pays to be critical. Many bloggers and writers work on the Thumper policy – if you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all. But twice in the past few months, I’ve been offered opportunities to do something based on a snarky or critical comment I’ve made on TasteTO. The first [...]
