Award winning Canadian Natalie MacMaster, fiddler extraordinaire and proponent of Celtic music and traditions, is on the road again. If she isn’t busy enough with home schooling her children and cooking up homemade pasta sauce and salad dressings, Natalie is touring Canada with partner Donnell Leahy featuring their Celtic Family Christmas shows. Natalie’s early years […]
When you read about people like Alon Farber and Marie-Josée Richer, founders of Prana, you know immediately they practice what they preach. Living sustainably, organically and inclusively, this dynamic duo is minimizing their footprint on plant earth while educating and inspiring the rest of us. Having met while traveling in India, Alon and Marie- Josée brought back
In the same way Anthony Bourdain exposed the restaurant world in Kitchen Confidential, Corey Mintz takes a look at some of the most egregious practices still going on in your favourite restaurant and supermarket. Couple that with the pandemic and its axe on traditional food service in North America, you have quite a scathing report,
What lies behind the development of recipes and research into different cultures’ food and traditions? Researchers Hannah Tait Neufeld and Elizabeth Finnis wanted to explore these worlds and provide context on how dishes and recipes become embraced by both the home cook and professional chefs through a cultural lens. To do that, they implored some
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What ingredient is more quintessential than Quebec’s maple syrup? When I worked in the school system, we would take bus loads of kids to Quebec City and one of the excursions was always to a sugar shack. The experience made me fall in love with not only Quebec City but the people, beauty and food
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Catherine Emily Calbeck was born in 1788 in Charlottetown PEI into an upscale household that played a prominent role in early Canadiana. She went on to marry Peter Dalgairns who whisked Catherine away to his beloved Scotland and Catherine was forever thought to be a Scot herself. It was here that she wrote her infamous The
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What do you get when you combine the experience of a teacher, engineer and triathlete? Why, Chiamigos, of course! And if you’re looking to eat healthier but have a busy lifestyle, Chiamigos has the solution for both…a breakfast cereal or late-night snack, the Chia pudding mix will fill you up while knowing you’re consuming a
Want to introduce your budding chefs to Caribbean food? Start with an inspiring story about a little girl’s experience in the kitchen and her struggles and perseverance that ultimately produces a wonderful meal. Granny’s Kitchen is author Sadé Smith’s debut children’s book where she portrays a little girl, Shelly-Ann, learning to replicate her grandmother’s familiar
Meet author Peter Robinson…a Canadian/British author that has some serious writing experience on his resume. I’ve read every book in the Inspector Banks series and always have the next installment on my book store’s wish list. And when the 27th book, Not Dark Yet, came out in 2021, it was at the top of my
Photo credit: https://vancouverisland.travel/ Victoria With his background in high-end and Michelin-star European restaurants, Chef Dan Hayes, aka The London Chef, is a classically-trained chef, world-class educator, and co-host of the beloved series Moosemeat & Marmalade, which airs in three languages around the world. The Cooking School is a virtual offering that builds on Dan’s record
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