What’s your blend? Need a single serve, no muss, no fuss, affordable blender drink that tastes amazing? Blender Boyz has smoothie, cocktail and ice coffee mixes to ensure a quick and easy drink is in your hand within minutes. Blender Boyz founder Jim Jackson has been in the food industry since the mid-1970’s when he […]
Anne Murray is Canada’s Queen of Music. Crossing different genres and spanning decades of musical influences, Anne has provided generations songs that speak to our spirit. And selling 55 million albums in the process is no small fete. As with many people who love an artist’s music, my connection to Anne is ambiguous but personal.
When I took my oldest granddaughter to China a few years ago, she figured out pretty quickly that Chinese food in China is vastly different than what we eat in Canada. In Chop Suey Nation, Ann Hui gives us the history and development of not only chop suey but other “Chinese” dishes we Canadians think
I could live on soups (winter) and salads (summer). And when a company like Mitchell’s Soup puts all the ingredients together so you don’t have to shop or think about how to make a hearty bowl of soup, it’s a no-brainer. And when the fine people at Mitchell’s respond to the busy households’ request for
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“As a consumer, it’s very simple to walk through a supermarket and grab things off the shelf without thinking twice about all of the inputs and logistics behind it. From the raw material sourcing, multiple components of packaging, labour, machinery, backend data systems, timelines, warehousing, shipping, etc. There is so many different inputs that go
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From time to time, you come across an author that inspires you and takes you into a world you know nothing about…but so glad they took you there. Silmy Abdullah is such an author. She takes you into the lives of Bangladeshi immigrants to Canada and shows the struggles and joys of supporting their roots
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Having landed in New Brunswick in the 1700’s and obtaining a land grant to settle the Steeves family, legend has it that the people already living here educated these newcomers to syrup from trees: “Legend says: in the early days, the natives discovered maple syrup by accident. It has been told that one spring a
Since our cookbook review takes place in Hamilton and is authored by the former Hamilton mayor, I thought it was fitting to review a fictional novel that takes place in Hamilton. It’s fun to read a book about a place you know so well – I grew up in the region and lived in Stoney
This week, we explore the life of a Canadian illustrator through the book “A Feast for Joseph.” Ken Daly brings his rich Caribbean heritage to books, music, art, and television…check him out at https://www.kendaleyart.com/ Ken’s parents emigrated from Dominica, West Indies and Ken was born in Cambridge, Ontario. From there, Ken’s studies took him to
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https://christinekotowyczbooks.com/ When you find a book with so many local references, it feels close to your heart as well as home. Christine Kotowycz lived down the road on a farm in the hamlet of Grafton. We both marveled at how our paths crossed and merged. The inspiration for this book came from a broken-down sleigh
