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Instagramming My Week

Instagramming My Week

I have recently started using Instagram more.  After balking the trend and lamenting loudly, and frequently, about Instagram’s lack of collaborative, community-building and searching tools, I finally caved.   I blame the Food Bloggers of Canada conference. Well, that and Instagram’s slick and quick interface which makes it so easy to share a photo and push it out onto my social spaces. (Where I can collaborate and build communities). Since I’m just getting rolling with Instagram it’s one of the few (only?) social media spaces where I have less than 500 followers AND where I have a higher follow-to-follower ratio.…

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My History With Hunger – Live Below The Line

My History With Hunger – Live Below The Line

I have been lucky in my life and have rarely experienced real hunger, the kind of unending chronic hunger that 1 out of 7 people in the world wake up to every day. The only time I really had to face hunger was during 2 school-terms at university, but even then I knew that in a couple of months I’d be back on a work-term and everything would be fine. The first time was the hardest since I hadn’t experienced this before and I didn’t really know what it meant to be hungry. I was in 3rd year, and  at…

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I’m Speaking at the Food Bloggers of Canada Conference

I’m Speaking at the Food Bloggers of Canada Conference

I’m excited to announce that I am one of the speakers at this weekend’s Food Bloggers of Canada Conference, Canada’s first dedicated food blogging conference. I will be speaking about restaurants, blogging and critiques in: The Chef & The Critic – 2 Perspectives on Restaurants and Blogging Alexa Clark and Jason Bangerter. Moderated by Alison Fryer of The Cookbook Store In this panel, moderated by Alison Fryer of The Cookbook Store,  Chef Jason Bangerter of Oliver & Bonacini’s Luma Restaurant and Alexa Clark of CheapEats and unsweetened.ca will discuss and debate the pros and cons of bloggers and restaurants working…

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Then The Eat Street Cookbook Arrived

Then The Eat Street Cookbook Arrived

Gerry just came into the office with a big padded manila envelop (I was going to say package, but I know some of you would read that wrong.) Inside was my last prize – the new Eat Street Cookbook. It’s filled with great recipes and beautiful photos. Even the trucks I visit the most – El Gastronomo Vagabundo and Caplansky’s Deli Truck (aka Thundering Thelma). And from the episode I was IN – Smoke’s Poutinerie . For the West Coasters, don’t worry, Japadog and Vij’s Railway Express are in here too! They’ve included a Truck Index and a Recipe Index.…

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Fixing The Old Lady Hair

Fixing The Old Lady Hair

In February I got my hair cut, and cut, and cut again. I always tell any stylist I go to to do what they think would look best.  They are, after all, the professionals and should be studying up on what would be current and look good on me. The challenge is that my haircuts lately have been pricy, very pricy. Sure they look great, but I was getting tired of forking out that much money. So I decided to go back the hair dressing school in my neighbourhood.  I’ve had wonderful success there in the past.  The cuts were…

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Winner in 86’d Food Photography Awards

Winner in 86’d Food Photography Awards

As part of her 86’d events Monday nights at the Drake, Ivy Knight ran the 86’d Food Photography Awards Night last night and one of my submission won the Phone Category! This photo which I call “Zane, Zane and Mark” which I took one day when Thundering Thelma was parked near Queen & Church and Mark Cutrara was serving a meatball sandwich at the truck. There were some amazing photos submitted, over 700 in fact. Check out the other winning photographs and finalists in this year’s awards: 2013 86′d Food Photography Awards Finalists & Winners Here are the other images…

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The Egg I Want For Easter is Big and Green

The Egg I Want For Easter is Big and Green

Dear Mr or Ms Easter Bunny, I would like to request, if possible, that you save the chocolate this year and only hide one Big Green Egg for me this year. I have been able to try one out at my friend Bill's house and I'm in love.

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Who is this Travel Bunny?

Who is this Travel Bunny?

With the recent spurt of travel posts around #LexGoFurther, I have been sharing a fair number of photos of Travel Bunny, or the Travel Bunny as he is known to some. As a result, I’ve decided to answer some of the questions I've been getting from people who haven’t met Travel Bunny before.

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Happy Pi Day To Mathies, Bookies and Normals Alike.

Happy Pi Day To Mathies, Bookies and Normals Alike.

It’s Pi Day again! This year with the release of Life of Pi the movie, you can now celebrate mathematically, culinary, literarily or cinematically.  Check out Life of Pi in it’s two forms, Pie in it’s many forms and contemplate the most popular of all irrational numbers. I didn’t plan right this year and so I can’t  indulge in a pie with every meal today.  But of course I’ll be on the look out for pie options for lunch and dinner. For Pi Day, I like to stretch my definition a little so I’m not just eating big slices of…

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Lunch on the Grill

Lunch on the Grill

Already using the Nordic Ware that was delivered as part of the Food Bloggers of Canada Conference swag. Gerry said as we plunked this onto the bbq “I wonder what the people without Nordic Ware are doing for lunch” We have plans afoot to develop some recipes for the Nordic Ware 365 Chicken Leg and Jalapeno Griller that will involve Canadian Beef (of course). After our first use of it and this sticky tandoori sauce, we were very impressed. The sauce got all over and baked down to a hard black char. And the whole thing wiped clean with little…

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Food Bloggers Conference Swag from Nordic Ware!

Food Bloggers Conference Swag from Nordic Ware!

This just in from from @Nordicware #FBC2013 Swag! Seriously, everyone going to the first ever Food Bloggers of Canada Conference were sent these from Nordic Ware, along with a challenge to use them, blog about it and get entered for a random draw for an even bigger set. Wow! www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/fbc-2013/ And yes, I’m attending and I’m also a speaker.

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“Sickie Soup” or so says Chef Bangerter

“Sickie Soup” or so says Chef Bangerter

I was in at Luma today talking to Jason Bangerter about our upcoming panel at the Food Bloggers of Canada Conference in April. It should be a lively discussion and with Alison Fryer of the Cookbook Store moderating you know we’ll be kept on our toes. Sadly I was pretty sniffly when I arrived at Luma, but Ben kept my tea hot and honey close at hand, and when I asked if I could get a soup after our meeting, Jason brought this out to see if it would make me feel better, and cut through the hell that being…

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