Tag Archives: Dining Out

Missing New Orleans…

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

In the past few days I have heard of four different people who have just come from, or are making their way to, New Orleans. This news has left me feeling quite nostalgic for the city that I love, causing … Continue reading →

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Mission Street Food and Market Chronicles

Posted on August 22, 2012 by

This book review was originally printed in the Montreal Mirror in October, 2011. Let’s get right to the point: Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz is awesome. Awesome. And by that I mean: … Continue reading →

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Dirty South Road Trip, 2012: Revelation #3

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of my major pet peeves when traveling is having a bad meal. Any meal, even breakfast, must offer me some kind of pleasure, for as a person who can go for quite … Continue reading →

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More Vegetables Please…

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

A few years ago I read an article by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker called “Two Cooks,” about a restaurant in Paris whose menu was comprised almost exclusively of vegetables. There is an image from the article that has … Continue reading →

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Hawaii. Who Knew…

Posted on May 21, 2011 by

For most of my life I have had a completely unwarranted hate-on for Hawaii. My feelings about the island were formed in my Calgary youth, when I associated its tropical climes with the jerks and jocks who returned to school … Continue reading →

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Le Club Chasse & Pêche…

Posted on February 20, 2010 by

For a variety of reasons, this past weekend was one of many indulgences. Years ago, when we lived in Toronto, held higher paying film-industry jobs, and didn’t worry about what we put into our bodies, we spent many a night … Continue reading →

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