Essential Listening
It was announced on Tuesday that the ARC Ensemble has been nominated for a JUNO Award for its latest recording,...
Category Archives: Life in General
Canadian Culinary Championships part 4 – the Grand Finale
The Grand Finale. Oh what a party! Olympic Athletes. 54-40 giving a whole rock concert. Gold Medal Pints...
Canadian Culinary Championships part 3 – the Black Box Competition
[caption id="attachment_3769" align="alignleft" width="225"] Members of the GMP production team[/caption] Saturday morning – up with the lark to...
Canadian Culinary Championships part 2 – The Mystery Wine Challenge
...Yes, the Mystery Wine was white. It was the 2016 Pinot Gris from Fort Berens, a winery in...
The sound of the distant past
Wonders will never cease. When I was a lad of 21, I was paid ten quid to play...
Canadian Culinary Championships part one – the judges arrive
[caption id="attachment_3748" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Chefs with their mystery wine[/caption] To balmy Kelowna for the 12th running of...
Essential art
there is a young artist in Toronto whose work I love. It fills our house. And our garden....
Toronto Gold Medal Plates 2017
What a grand finale to the 2017 Gold Medal Plates campaign! Last night’s event in Toronto was simply...
Ottawa-Gatineau Gold Medal Plates 2017
We were promised snow in Ottawa, penultimate stop on the Gold Medal Plates marathon, but though the weather...
Calgary Gold Medal Plates 2017
Wham! And suddenly it was winter – a three-day blizzard sweeping over Calgary, temperature 12 below, traffic so...