Mead was the drink of choice for kings, conquerors and knights — and now me! I can now get my very own honey wine from Alberta’s first meadery in Okotoks, about 25 kilometres south of Calgary limits.
It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon for a drive with Steph and Torsten, who were visiting from Edmonton. We [...]
This post was seriously five months in the making. I started writing this back in February when we were in moving upheaval.
The night before the movers came to take all our possessions and put them into storage — including all my pots and pans and cookbooks — Jason and I sat in our neighbourhood pub [...]
By our last night in San Francisco, we couldn’t bear the thought of eating more seafood, or really anything else. We were in one of those funks where we couldn’t decide what to have, but we didn’t want crap. I know, woe was us.
Jason vaguely said, “I want something casual. With beer.”
I remember lying on [...]
This is a bombolini, an Italian doughnut filled with Nutella, and how Jason started his Saturday morning at the Ferry Building. The ferry terminal, which opened in 1898, has been beautifully restored and now includes specialty food stands and restaurants.
On Tuesdays and Saturdays, there’s a farmer’s market outside with the kind of glistening fruit only [...]
I want to marry Tadich Grill — if, you know, humanoid-restaurant unions were socially accepted, and legally recognized.
The restaurant has been around for 159 years — in its current location since 1967 — and is a total legend in San Francisco.
Tadich is old-school, with almost an old-boy’s club feel in the dark wood, the brass [...]
