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New Year’s resolutions

In 2009, I will eat more fruits and vegetables.

I will make more dinners at home.

I will find a way to make white fish exciting.

I will learn how to bake chewy cookies.

I will try quinoa and durian.

I will clean the barbecue.

I will read “Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper” by Fuchsia Dunlop.

(List adapted from eGullet Society.)

CALGARY: Burgers at Buchanan’s

Buchanan’s is a shrine to malt whisky, with a vast wall of more than 200 bottles behind the shiny, wood bar.

I don’t know much about scotch, but I know about burgers. And Buchanan’s makes some good ones.

Because they use Grade AAA 100% sirloin, you can get your burger cooked to order. Rare, even!

My medium-rare, [...]

Colonel Sanders blasts ‘plumb tasteless’ Canadian food

Here’s a blast from the past.

Courtesy of the awesome CBC Archives, listen to Colonel Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame slam Canadian food with southern courtesy.

“I found here a lot of good and a lot of bad, perhaps a little more bad than you do good,” he tells CBC interviewer Joe Taylor in [...]

CALGARY: Italian break at Lina’s

Lina’s Italian Market is a great place to shop for Italian groceries, deli meats, cheese, sausages, herbs, and cool imported kitchen gadgets.

But the cafe area in the front is a delicious and economical place to stop too for a quick bite. Pick from a line of fresh, dinner-plate size pizzas and rows of panini, [...]

CALGARY: Blink, still good

I left my camera at home last time I went to Blink. I made sure to bring it this time for Gwendolyn’s birthday dinner.

Our party of 10 sat in the private dining room, which was a very comfortable, large square table so we could all talk to each other. The food and service were [...]

CALGARY: Prorogued = perogies

It started off as a joke. But the more times we heard and saw the word “prorogue” this morning — and believe me that’s a lot in a newsroom — the more we envisioned a warm, solid plate of perogies for lunch as the country falls apart around us.

Or as Perez Hilton calls it, [...]