By the end of 2017 Alberta will have close to 60 microbreweries. That’s a cool thing (no. 51 on this blog) because in 2013 there were only 14. Here’s a little background on why local kegs are increasingly what’s on tap at your favourite watering hole.
MoreI used to look forward to watching my favourite Christmas movies each holiday season. Now I look forward to a four minute video from an airline. I watch my favourite movies because they capture the spirit of Christmas – love, peace, generousity and all that’s best in humanity. I watch these WestJet videos for the same […]
MoreFact: There are 3200 kids in Calgary that go to school hungry every day. If somebody told you that you could feed a hungry child a healthy lunch for a month by spending 20 dollars would you do it? If somebody told you that with that same 20 dollars you could feed a hungry child […]
MoreHave you started your holiday shopping yet? Me neither. I did make a list and check it twice. The list I’m talking about is my annual article on great gifts for food lovers for Calgary’s City Palate magazine. I came up with 17 gifts, gadgets and goodies for 2016. Click on the link and check it […]
MoreFrom now until November 5, 2016 you have an opportunity to show Calgary some love. In particular you can show Calgary’s businesses some love. Tourism Calgary and Calgary Economic Development have partnered to, “celebrate our city, people and all the countless things that make Calgary one of the greatest cities in the world”. It’s a call for […]
MoreNow this is definitely cool. I’ve known Janice Beaton a long time and always admired her taste and style. She’s a straight-forward Maritimer like me but she’s also filled with dichotomies. She’s at once sophisticated and granola, worldly and ultra-local, spiritual and poetic. She’s a contributor to life and a cheese grande dame. It’s so nice […]
MoreI’ve got my first Calgary Stampede pancake breakfast all planned. I’ll be at the parade bright and early this Friday and am already looking forward to Spolumbo’s sausage and flapjacks fresh from the griddle that my friends Richard and Nora Seto (Stampede volunteers extraordinaire) will be whipping up for me. I’m going to need the […]
MoreEvery year for Calgary’s City Palate magazine’s December issue – the “entertaining” issue – I share a list of cool things for cooks. This year’s is chock-a-block full of Retro Gifts for Food Lovers. (these dozen goodies will be cool things #33 – #44 on this blog’s list) I made the list and now, as I head out […]
MoreCool thing #31 – The Millarville Races and Cool thing #32 – The Calgary Stampede 2 more great reasons to Explore Alberta I love that summer starts with a big bang in Calgary. We get dressed up in red and white for Canada Day… …and then we rock our maverick culture with an ode to […]
MoreI recently wrote about Corner Grocers and some other grocery shopping trends for CBC Radio One’s Alberta at Noon. I talked about the money Amazon is spending on research to make home delivery – by small aircraft drones – of groceries (and many other items under five pounds – which is 86% of their business) a […]
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