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Meat for Dinner and dinner the next day and the day after
By the third day, I was feeling like this cat below.Leopard (Panthera pardus) feeding off a cached kill (photo from Wikipedia)Indeed, multiple visits to the oversized take-out box in the refrigerator produced successive meals of meat that lasted for nearly a week after a visit to Old Strathcona's...
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By the third day, I was feeling like this cat below.Leopard (Panthera pardus) feeding off a cached kill (photo from Wikipedia)Indeed, multiple visits to the oversized take-out box in the refrigerator produced successive meals of meat that lasted for nearly a week after a visit to Old Strathcona's...
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The Farrow's Bounty
Farrow ("far-oh")1. noun a litter of pigs2. verb (used with object) (of swine) to bring forth young3. verb (used without object) to produce a litter of pigs Origin: before 900; Midde English farwen, to give birth to a little of pigs, derivative of Old Engl...
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Farrow ("far-oh")1. noun a litter of pigs2. verb (used with object) (of swine) to bring forth young3. verb (used without object) to produce a litter of pigs Origin: before 900; Midde English farwen, to give birth to a little of pigs, derivative of Old Engl...
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Small Bites - Delicious Pho and New Way Pizza
Extraneous verbosity eschews exactitude and circumvents precision.No, really.Vividly descriptive recollections of dining experiences are grand, but summations served with an extra helping of brevity are rare. And so, tonight: Delicious Pho and New Way Pizza. Served short and sweet.Delicious Pho, ...
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Extraneous verbosity eschews exactitude and circumvents precision.No, really.Vividly descriptive recollections of dining experiences are grand, but summations served with an extra helping of brevity are rare. And so, tonight: Delicious Pho and New Way Pizza. Served short and sweet.Delicious Pho, ...
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Sabor Divino on my mind
It is so easy and, admittedly, great fun to be swept up in the summer flurry of restaurant openings. So easy, in fact, that one tends to neglect time-tested stalwarts. Case in point: Lusito-Iberian powerhouse Sabor Divino. On this particular evening, Sabor's vintage warehouse digs are hopping. Fl...
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It is so easy and, admittedly, great fun to be swept up in the summer flurry of restaurant openings. So easy, in fact, that one tends to neglect time-tested stalwarts. Case in point: Lusito-Iberian powerhouse Sabor Divino. On this particular evening, Sabor's vintage warehouse digs are hopping. Fl...
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Ticket Give-Away for Host Edmonton...
Eat. Drink. Think.These three concepts will be shaken, stirred and perpetuated at Host Edmonton, an upcoming three day conference on...well, eating, drinking and thinking. I'm going and you should be too.Hence, I have tickets to give away. Just tweet me or email me to let me know which ones you'd...
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Eat. Drink. Think.These three concepts will be shaken, stirred and perpetuated at Host Edmonton, an upcoming three day conference on...well, eating, drinking and thinking. I'm going and you should be too.Hence, I have tickets to give away. Just tweet me or email me to let me know which ones you'd...
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Lost and Found at Iconoclast Koffiehuis
Architectural fixtures lead non-linear lives. Prospective lifespans differ greatly; a treasured cutting board might be bequeathed to one's progeny, but a twenty year old (translation: obsolete) toaster oven might be, at best, relegated to goodwill or, at worst, tossed out with yesterday's trash.&...
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Architectural fixtures lead non-linear lives. Prospective lifespans differ greatly; a treasured cutting board might be bequeathed to one's progeny, but a twenty year old (translation: obsolete) toaster oven might be, at best, relegated to goodwill or, at worst, tossed out with yesterday's trash.&...
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Daravara - Occam's Razor
Daravara nudged itself onto the corner of 124 Street and 107 Avenue a few months ago with nary a squeak, tweet, or chirp. This is quite the contrast to the usual onslaught of social media marketing, in an age where enigmatic tweets and cryptic instagram photos routinely precede grand openings. No...
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Daravara nudged itself onto the corner of 124 Street and 107 Avenue a few months ago with nary a squeak, tweet, or chirp. This is quite the contrast to the usual onslaught of social media marketing, in an age where enigmatic tweets and cryptic instagram photos routinely precede grand openings. No...
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Serenity at Miki Sushi Express
Sushi imparts serenity. Unless one is extremely adept with chopsticks, one cannot wolf down sushi as one might with a burger, or inhale maki as one might with a sandwich, or massacre sashimi as one might with French fries. No; the very act of sushi consumption insists upon serenity.This is why ev...
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Sushi imparts serenity. Unless one is extremely adept with chopsticks, one cannot wolf down sushi as one might with a burger, or inhale maki as one might with a sandwich, or massacre sashimi as one might with French fries. No; the very act of sushi consumption insists upon serenity.This is why ev...
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True to Form at Bodega Tapas & Wine Bar
Words come and go. Their tenure might last for decades, or even centuries, but words can and will fall out of favour more rapidly than they accrued widespread usage. Remember when people used to say that things were "rad"? Or "far out"? Slang terms in particular, once their era has trundled acros...
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Words come and go. Their tenure might last for decades, or even centuries, but words can and will fall out of favour more rapidly than they accrued widespread usage. Remember when people used to say that things were "rad"? Or "far out"? Slang terms in particular, once their era has trundled acros...
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Bar Bricco - No Holds Barred
No reservations. No nonsense. No holds barred.These three descriptors, when taken together, nicely sum up Bar Bricco. Bar Bricco is right downtown, the nearest neighbour of Corso 32. Both share the same mastermind, the incomparable Daniel Costa. Similarities end there. Bricco trades Corso's bare ...
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No reservations. No nonsense. No holds barred.These three descriptors, when taken together, nicely sum up Bar Bricco. Bar Bricco is right downtown, the nearest neighbour of Corso 32. Both share the same mastermind, the incomparable Daniel Costa. Similarities end there. Bricco trades Corso's bare ...
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District Coffee Co. - Hip to be Square
"Hipsters ruin everything."Plaid shirts, horn-rimmed glasses, goo-gaws of yesteryear recycled into ironic statements that, really, aren't statements because they are out to prove that they've got nothing to prove. (For further reference, please refer to Kate Beaton's comic above.) Basically, old ...
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"Hipsters ruin everything."Plaid shirts, horn-rimmed glasses, goo-gaws of yesteryear recycled into ironic statements that, really, aren't statements because they are out to prove that they've got nothing to prove. (For further reference, please refer to Kate Beaton's comic above.) Basically, old ...
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D'Amore's Italian Mercato - A Little Amore for the South Side
Independent grocery stores, though notable exceptions buck this rule, have been conspicuously absent from Edmonton's landscape. Indeed, it's all too easy to succumb to the Big Box Stores' siren song of low prices and "everything from a twelve pack of winter tires to a case of peaches" under one r...
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Independent grocery stores, though notable exceptions buck this rule, have been conspicuously absent from Edmonton's landscape. Indeed, it's all too easy to succumb to the Big Box Stores' siren song of low prices and "everything from a twelve pack of winter tires to a case of peaches" under one r...
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Land of Fire, Ice, and Fine Feasts
Iceland, though half an ocean and more than a few icebergs away, felt closer than ever this week. Iceland Naturally, which promotes travel to this mid-Atlantic volcanic isle, instigated a joyous and meticulously organized celebration of Icelandic food, drink and music to celebrate Icelandair's ma...
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Iceland, though half an ocean and more than a few icebergs away, felt closer than ever this week. Iceland Naturally, which promotes travel to this mid-Atlantic volcanic isle, instigated a joyous and meticulously organized celebration of Icelandic food, drink and music to celebrate Icelandair's ma...
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Identity Crisis at The Glass Monkey
One cannot force an identity upon a restaurant. It must evolve organically and iteratively. Identity must meld with every aspect: decor, personnel and, of course, food and drink. It is easy to rattle off names of restaurants with well-defined identities, for one can "feel" the coherence. It is le...
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One cannot force an identity upon a restaurant. It must evolve organically and iteratively. Identity must meld with every aspect: decor, personnel and, of course, food and drink. It is easy to rattle off names of restaurants with well-defined identities, for one can "feel" the coherence. It is le...
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Faith-Off: Korean Fried Chicken
Certain food items are often ruined by fast food institutions, in that we are saturated and inundated with supersized portions of half-assed quality. This scenario certainly applies to fried chicken; redemption, however, has arrived in the earthly guise of Korean fried chicken. Korean fried chick...
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Certain food items are often ruined by fast food institutions, in that we are saturated and inundated with supersized portions of half-assed quality. This scenario certainly applies to fried chicken; redemption, however, has arrived in the earthly guise of Korean fried chicken. Korean fried chick...
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