The spring cannot be too far away, can it? Meanwhile, winter veggies are in abundance and these recipes are two of my best.
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RESCUED RECIPES
When I was writing The Graveyard of Good Ideas, I came across a stash of forgotten recipes. Banana bread was one of them. I called it the “world’s best” then and it still is.
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Our wine scribe Jim Walker and his long-suffering wife Hélène have developed a deep affection for southern France.
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Five years ago, we stood at the Storskog Border Station, just outside Kirkenes, Norway, on the border with Russia, little imagining that this isolated crossing would one day be the last open gateway between Putin’s empire and Europe.
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My late father-in-law and mentor used to keep a filing drawer labelled ‘The Graveyard of Good Ideas,’ which he thought were brilliant but had been unable to sell to clients.
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Our wine correspondent Jim Walker continues his wining and dining ways in southern France and, in the process, discovers that some stars can be illusionary. Read on for all the delicious details.
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Now that “dry” January is over, it seems like time to search out new wineries and distilleries in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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The big question before moving last Fall, was whether to drink all the booze in the Scotch Bucket or pack it and ship it.
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The always welcoming island of Saint-Martin, in the French West Indies, is one of my favourite winter destinations, where the recent Culinary Festival invited chefs around the island to show off their stuff and create some new and unique offerings featuring plantain.
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Our wine correspondent Jim Walker is well known for combining fine dining with his wining. “They go together like a horse and carriage, love and marriage and flotsam and jetsam,” Jim explains. Below we see what he means as he and wife Hélène explore the restaurant scene on a recent trip to Nice, France.
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Gentlemans Portion 