After School Snacks This delightfully French cookbook showcases twelve recipes to make and enjoy for that special snack time between the end of school and dinner time. Le goûter, as it is known in French, consists of mostly sweet treats, traditionally enjoyed at home but, more and more, en route to extra-curricular activities. Goûter means “to taste” and […]

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Tim Hortons is as iconic to Canada as saying “eh”!  When I traveled for business, I could always count on a Timmies being somewhere within reach for my daily dose of caffeine.  In the town my kids grew up in, for a population of 25,000, there are six Tim Hortons – guess we needed a

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from Tales From Under the Rim Love Tim Hortons’ iced coffee?  Try making it yourself, playing with the ingredients and portions to get it exactly how you like it! Ingredients 1 cup coffee  ½ cup sugar 1 cup water ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 2 tablespoons cream or milk (to your liking) Directions Make your favourite

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Tales From Under the Rim chronicles the rise of Tim Hortons, from its humble beginnings to a national institution. In this bestselling business memoir, Ron Buist shows how Tim Hortons became a second home to millions of Canadians. It includes the grass-roots marketing strategy that defined the early years, the Tim Hortons habit of listening

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Drawing on manuscripts and historical accounts, the author Sheilah Roberts recounts the living conditions of early settler life, around the mid-1600’s in Newfoundland.  English immigrants settled up and down the eastern seaboard of the island while the French migrated to the southern tips.  This book takes you back to that time with snippets of written

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from For Maids who Brew & Bake In 1611, Sir Hugh Platt (London) wrote in “Delights for Ladies to adorne their persons, tables, closets and distilleries,” how to make conserve of strawberries: First seethe them in water: then boile them in white wine, and worke as before in Damsons, or else straine them, being ripe:

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Curious cures and delicious recipes from the 17th century are to be found within these pages. With syllabub and loblolly, pottage and spiced bread, this book describes a way of life long gone. It holds a collection of interesting and tasty tidbits with everything from dream interpretation to diet tips. Excerpts from old English manuscripts

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A very Canadian Caesar Cocktail box that will take your Caesars from ho hum to hee haw!  Mojo Jojo’s Pickles’ Caesar Mix is simple. Put a teaspoon or more in your drink and it brings the heat, the sweet and the flavour to savour.  Add a dash of Dirty Martini Brine and garnish it BIG

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Author Roxana Nedelcu and nutrition guru of Smart Nutrition Rox https://www.smartnutritionrox.com/ has gone to great lengths to research cultural high days and the food eaten around the world.  Laid out by each month and special days, this book provides an appetizer, four entrées and a dessert for each menu.  The book celebrates global holidays and

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Organized to provide 52 different menus, this book follows a yearly calendar and gives a menu idea for each week of the year. Every menu has its own theme and is made specifically for the week it falls on. All the popular cuisines of the world are featured with a menu as well – from

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