by Jacqui Eisen | Mar 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Guest blog by Sheona Della-Fort If you are from England you will understand our love affair with tea. Though I have adapted somewhat to coffee drinking and Tim Hortons in Canada, I will always love a hot steaming cup of tea. When I opened the kitchen cupboards the...
by Jacqui Eisen | Feb 29, 2016 | A Place to Come Home To
European Pantry in Welland brings back memories of historic Hungary Guest Blog by Sheona Della-Fort The lure of breathtaking scenery, a chance to experience another culture and the warmth of the friendly Canucks were the reasons that drew me to leave England to study...
by Jacqui Eisen | Aug 14, 2015 | Niagara & Welland
Some more cyclists came by last weekend. This time from Jamestown, New York. Did you know that Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown? I didn’t. She also is buried there and it is home to the Lucy Desi Museum and Center for Comedy. This summer Jamestown hosted a...
by Jacqui Eisen | Jul 29, 2015 | #winewednesday, Niagara Wines, Serving it Up
Zacharie Cloutier is the ancestor of probably more Quebecois Canadians than any other man. He and his wife Xainte immigrated from the Perche province, France in 1634. They founded one of the foremost families in Quebec. By 1800, the Cloutier descendants numbered...
by Jacqui Eisen | Apr 11, 2015 | Food for Thought
Yesterday, a customer came in confessing that he was twenty minutes down the road home to Toronto when he realized he had forgotten to stop by our store before leaving. He turned around. Last weekend we had a group of Torontonians come by. Immigrants from Russia, they...
