Posts Tagged: Food and Drink
Tales From The Green Valley
Posted by on Monday, November 13, 2006 in - 18 comments
Got a little Christmassy last night watching Tales from the Green Valley on TVO last night, a 2005 BBC production, in which a number of academics with good teeth live in a 1620's Welsh farm and display how civilized it all would have been without the ignorance, disease, constant use of alcohol and …
One Thousand Ways To Open A Beer
Posted by on Sunday, October 22, 2006 in - 8 comments
This German language site is a resource for us all to treasure. In #1000, a beer is opened with a slice of bread. Fabulous. • By the way, this is a rare cross-posting from A Good Beer Blog due to its excellent illustration of unproductive idle work discussed below. A big hat tip to Darcey.
Best Time
Posted by on Saturday, October 14, 2006 in - 8 comments
We live in cycles even as modernity trys to drive them out. With the fall comes the quietening of the FM band so that weak but neighbouring NPR comes in clearly without the irritation of co-channel soft rock stations from Ottawa. With each week comes the end of the week and the end of work if only …
What Is News?
Posted by on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 in - 6 comments
I seem to be playing the role of Hugh McQuestionmark, the Human Question Mark right now. So here is another: why is every product placement move by Tim Horton's a story worthy of making our news papers. Consider this from the Toronto Star: • “Canada's favourite coffee and doughnut chain has …
Trying to Recall Cafe Wim
Posted by on Thursday, September 21, 2006 in - 12 comments
I don't know why I woke up and asked myself what it was I liked to order at the long shut Cafe Wim on Sussex near the market in Ottawa in the mid-90s. I was awake the best part of an hour involuntarily trying to remember. There are enough references on the internet but I can't find a picture of …
Branding Mastered VIII
Posted by on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 in - 4 comments
Even the Swedes display the mastery over branding. Tastes like candle wax. Why am I reminded of Caddy Shack?
The Day of Fri Is When There Is Chat
Posted by on Friday, September 15, 2006 in - 20 comments
What a week - a blur. I swear I was 27 when it started and now I have kids • and a mortgage. Thing I learned? Buying gifts for a kids party was easier when • they were two. You can buy an old shoe and stick some red masking tape on it and • a two-year old would be happy. Now they have taste …
I Never Liked Starbucks
Posted by on Thursday, September 14, 2006 in - 18 comments
I went once in Vancouver, paid waaaaay too much for essentially a 25 cent product and never went back. But apparently some people want their Starbucks coffee quite badly: • “A Starbucks customer in the US who was told her free drink voucher was worthless is launching a $114m (£60m) lawsuit …
August SW Ontario Road Trip
Posted by on Sunday, August 27, 2006 in - leave a comment
Mucho fried after 17 hours in 48 driving, driving, driving along with the questionable food and the more questionable guest bed arrangements. I could have been to Boston or even farther and back. Not too much to complain about as I dropped by a couple of breweries on the way, including my first …
Apple Update 2006
Posted by on Thursday, August 24, 2006 in - 1 comment
I found one of these in the market: • “TYDEMAN'S RED - 'Tydeman's Early'. Early season, ripens a month before McIntosh. A cross made by H.Tydeman between Worcester Pearmain and McIntosh. A medium sized to large McIntosh type scarlet to dark red, juicy, crisp apple. Partially self fertile …
