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Recipes by Karen AndersonOctober 13, 2011March 14, 2013

Savour food – The City Palate Summer Tootle to Southern Alberta Farms

Saturday, August 20th was a big Alberta blue sky day with not a breath of wind to disturb it. A perfect day to take a bus load of city folk out to meet farm folk. Our first stop was http://www.aspencrossing.com where owners Donna Biggar and Jason Thornhill showed us their Pullman Dining Car, kitchen garden, […]

Recipes by Karen AndersonJune 4, 2011March 14, 2013

Savour food – The 2011 City Palate Magazine Spring Tootle

Tootling according to Webster’s dictionary refers to the practice of “proceeding in a leisurely way”. City Palate magazine has sponsored “Foodie Tootles” to local farms around Calgary for 13 years. I used to help my friend Dee Hobsbawn-Smith run these and last year when she moved to Saskatchewan I took on the task of keeping […]