Everything tastes better at Pete and Mary’s. Beets have bite, tomatoes ooze with tart juice, and the chocolate cake is moist and thick with flavour. “It’s because of our oven,” Mary Beattie says modestly,...
Read MoreThe humble ukulele is undergoing a revolution.Ukulele clubs are springing up around the world, big-name rock stars are strumming the small, four-stringed Hawaiian guitar, and a recent documentary heralds the ukulele’s...
Read MoreI’m not Katya McQueen and I do not work in the coffee trade. But this is to your advantage. What I am is a writer who has edited and reported on food and coffee for several years. More important, I love coffee to the...
Read MoreGene Batten sits peacefully in the Yukon College bistro during an off-hours hush. For the college’s manager of food services and co-ordinator of the culinary arts program, it’s a moment of calm before the storm. The...
Read MoreThe Iron Chef, a competitive cooking show, opens with dramatic music, a swelling crescendo of exciting sound building as the camera zooms around a dramatically lit kitchen stage prepped with shining knives, mammoth cooking...
Read MoreI’m going to let you in on a little secret: I am a vegetarian (well sort of—I eat fish). And I am also a cook. This is a very strange combination, I have found—as it turns out, it is not widely accepted for someone to be...
Read MoreIf you asked me what my favourite food was, and I was actually honest about it, I would probably have to say refined sugar. And pizza.This being said, I am a person who is pretty into nutrition—I am relatively educated about it...
Read MoreI know there are people in Dawson who eat healthy in the summer—having barbecues, fishing, berry picking and hitting the farmers’ market every Saturday.I, on the other hand, am a bartender, which means that I rarely wake...
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