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TGF & new beginnings
To be honest I have always found exclamations of "Thank God it's Friday" a bit flippant. End of work week jubilation probably grates on the ears of...
“A Taste of Heaven”
That's how one customer just described out new "Sticky Toffee" cheese! This delight is the creation of Combe Castle Dairy who describe their cheeses...
Goodbye Dear Family
My friend, Vicky, and I were chatting about the immigrant experiences of our parents. Many were funny; others were poignant. Vicky told me that when...
The Beer Project
As a young immigrant in the 1950's my father spent time harvesting tobacco in south western Ontario one summer. The farmer's wife kept a hospitable...
Nagyon Finom – delicious!
There's nothing like pictures to inspire us to cook but one of my favourite and obviously well used recipe books, "The Old World Kitchen" by...
Salmon Ham?
Lachsschinken is a dry cured pork ham. You could think of it as Bavaria's alternative to proscuitto. Literally translated Lachsschinken means...
