I don’t go to many movies. I find most of them too violent or crass for my well being but, I went to Lion recently and it moved me and motivated me to write this blog. The main character in Lion, a small boy named Saroo, gets stuck on an empty deadheading train and ends […]
MoreIt’s good to have life goals. One of my favourites is to go to a different back country lodge in the Canadian Rockies every year. This year it was Talus Lodge. To reach the lodge you take a helicopter from Canmore and fly about 100 kilometres due west. It takes about 15 minutes, goes by […]
MoreI feel privileged to travel to India every year. I felt its pull when I began practicing yoga 15 years ago. I wanted to go to the place that taught people to focus on awareness and fully living in this existence. Now that I’ve been a few times, I am increasingly drawn and look forward to each […]
MoreThanks to my friend Suzie Szmolyan Morrow for sharing this video with me so I can share it with you. When I look at what Lentil Hunter chef Michael Smith finds on the table in Gujarat, I see the vivid food of my mentor Noorbanu Nimji and the recipes in our cookbook – A Spicy […]
MoreI love to ask the people I meet, What is Alberta’s food? Inevitably the answer is, Beef – of course. I bring this up because I think it illuminates our lack of knowledge of our food heritage. Beef is not an original Alberta species. It is an exotic import. It was brought to Alberta from Scotland […]
MoreAt last there is a direct flight from Calgary to Penticton. You can read all about it in this press release. Thank you WestJet. I live in Calgary so it’s obviously my favourite place in Canada. It’s where I met my husband and we’re happy to be raising our son here. I’ve loved growing my […]
MoreGuggenheim Bilbao – Exterior Walkabout – from a distance If you are traveling to Spain, Bilbao’s Guggenheim is worth adding to your itinerary. The value of art and architecture, for me, is how they cause me to live completely absorbed in the moment. The moment is all that really exists so it really is the […]
MoreHere’s an article I wrote on the top things for food lovers to do when visiting Paris. It will serve as the finale in this series of posts on my best Paris experiences. I wrote it for City Palate magazine in 2010 but I think the ideas are just as fun now. Of course, I’d […]
MoreBy Karen Anderson, Katherine Donaghy and Megan Marshall The name of my blog is Savour Food Savour Life. I believe one of the best ways to savour both food and life is via travel. Travel affords the time to slow down and actually savour your surroundings, your food and consequently, your life. Incidentally, travel has also been shown […]
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