The Ontario Guide to Buying Wine For and From Your Pals.
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For the Love of Oysters
“A perfectly shucked oyster slides out of its shell and onto your tongue; its silky, cold texture...
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Buyers + Cellars: Taste and Explore
For Curtis Stephenson, everything changed 20 years ago when he drank Riesling with Robbie Nellis....
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Corsican Wine Dinner at Gray Jay
Nicholas Pearce presents the wines of Domaine Alzipratu at Gray Jay, Ottawa… Leave a lasting...
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Hattie Klotz’ Great Garden Cookbook
Malcolm Jolley discovers a new Anglo-Canadian locavore instant classic. Hattie Klotz wrote the...
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Ravenswood Dinner in Ottawa November 18
Joel Peterson, the founder of Ravenswood winery way back in 1976 and the acknowledged “Godfather...
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Discover Ottawa
A cryophile, I am certainly not, but I do bike to work in the bitter cold for no other reason than...
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Calling Ottawa Chefs
Ocean Wise is coming to Ottawa! We would like to invite Ottawa Chefs to enjoy a drink and chat...
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A Taste of Winterlude
Winterlude is Ottawa’s big, shiny, famous winter festival and if you haven’t yet been, you really should pack your bags. Each year throngs of tourists and city folk alike bundle up for three weekends in February to brave the Rideau Canal and take in the festivities. Gawking at ice sculptures, pulling tiny icicles from one’s eyelashes and warming up at a local pub or restaurant with a hot beverage are all common behaviours of the Winterlude goer.
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Cultivate: A Mini Film Fest in Ottawa — September 24th, 2011
On Saturday, September 24th at 2:30 pm, Ottawa’s Mayfair Theatre will play host to After the...
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Castlegarth: Local Food in the Ottawa Valley
It was a crisp fall day as I made my way to White Lake, Ontario to meet with Chef Matthew Brearley of Castlegarth. This was not unfamiliar territory for me, as like Chef Brearley, I hail from this neck of the woods. They say you can’t go home again, but sometimes a journey leads you right back to where you began for a reason. For Chef Brearley and his wife Jenn, I believe that reason is the local food movement…
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Goats Milk Ice Cream from Fifthtown and Pascales
The ambrosia is actually produced by Pascale’s All Natural Ice Cream in Ottawa. Fifth Town ships them fresh chèvre cheese and goats’ milk from which owner and maker Pascale Berthiaume creates a French custard which she then churns into ice cream. If Haagen Daz is premium – this is super premium – I mean like Berthillon ice cream on the Ile-Saint-Louis in Paris. Yes, it is $5 for a tiny scoop – but it is so rich and so delicious any more would ruin a good thing.
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