When I signed up to work as an office temp, I thought I was in for a summer of polyester blouses wet in the pits, bloat-inducing Chinese lunches in underground cafeterias and endless hours of staring at a computer. What I got instead was induction into the Maharishi yogic cult, phone sex with a billionaire […]
Katharine Sandiford
Posted inFood + Drink
Grounds zero
It used to be that coffee was just coffee. It came in a round tin with a plastic lid at the grocery store—regular, decaf or instant. It was a simple drink, sweetened up, mixed with creams or taken black. Sometimes it even gave you bad breath. But as more and more people are learning about […]
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Green machine
Hippies, granolas, eco-geeks, activists and other deviants once thought to scorn consumerism now make up one of the fastest-growing billion-dollar market demographics. According to Colorado-based market research company Natural Business Communications, this group spends upwards of US$230 billion a year and makes up one third of the American population. They’re called “Lohas,” a word coined […]
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Get your green on
Walk wherever you go Halifax is the best city in Canada for walking. Not the kind of walking people do with the dog or with swinging arms and a heart monitor or with a picnic basket and a lover. Actually, there’s a shortage of good leisure trails in HRM. But as far as walking to […]