The happy ending of The Wizard of Oz happens when Dorothy Gale realizes that as many wonders as there are over the rainbow, you don’t actually have to look that far to find your joy. She famously says, “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my […]
Melissa Buote
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Emma Adamski is the leader of the pack
Emma Adamski is an animated talker. She laughs a lot, doesn’t take herself too seriously. But as laid-back and playful as she is, she’s equally intense about her job. She’s passionate about food, about co-workers. She’s a hard worker, a doer. “The way that I feel about it is that if I can do it, […]
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All about Steve
Street Legal airs Mondays on CBC beginning March 4 Steve Lund is a cliche. At first glance Lund seems about as rare as a three-leaf clover, or a piece of hay in a haystack. A Steve, after all, is just a variation on a Chris, a Ryan or, heaven help us, a Tom. A Steve […]
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#iconic: Cynthia Dale
Cynthia Dale is a true Canadian icon. She’s one of those precious few secrets we’ve managed to keep to ourselves: She’s a Stompin’ Tom song, a Company’s Coming cookbook, a butter tart. She’s all that and a bag of ketchup chips. Seeing Dale on screen again is welcomely familiar, like catching your favourite aunt at […]
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Liu’s Formosa Gift & Tea House is closing
Liu’s Formosa Gift & Tea House 278 Wyse Road For years now, tucked in at the top of a pile of toys and trinkets, surrounded by colourful hanging lanterns, a couple of maneki-neko figurines—lucky cats—have welcomed you into Liu’s Formosa Gift & Tea House, their seesawing paws beckoning you inside with serene waves of “Hello!” […]
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Find your Caribbean Bliss
Caribbean Bliss 3619 Novalea Drive Elias Fathallah hates cooking. “But I love to clean,” he says with a laugh. Luckily Caribbean Bliss has Rickey Smith, a chef who has been in the kitchen since before Fathallah bought the business in September of last year. Only a few minutes later he’s putting rice on the stove […]
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How Stella Thomas got her groove
Stella’s Antiguan Cuisine Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market 1209 Marginal Road It’s been about 20 years since Stella Thomas introduced a lot of Haligonians to the flavours of the West Indies at Starlite Cuisine, a bright and cozy cafe that was tucked onto Cornwallis Street for just over a decade. After taking some time off to […]
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Food Hack Nova Scotia aims to innovate
Food Hack Nova Scotia Sobey School of Business Saint Mary’s University, 923 Robie Street Mon Feb 19 and Tue Feb 20 free, foodhacknovascotia.com Nova Scotia has a wicked problem. It’s not the kind of wicked problem a teenager in Bangor might have with their high school boyfriend, though. It’s the kind of “wicked problem” that is […]
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Chocolate Hackers’ sweet adventure
In the summer of 2016 Cécile and Stan Mozoluk set out on a 30-day challenge to travel across the Maritimes to play around, pairing combinations of local ingredients and chocolate-making. They used ingredients like blueberries, hot peppers and sauerkraut, visited farms and wineries and explored the region, ultimately falling in love with it. You can […]
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Luis López is changing the way we see Mexican cuisine
Antojo Tacos + Tequila 1667 Argyle Street Daily 11am-late “C an you call back?” Luis López says. He is cut off by a few shouts from the kitchen and shouts a few quick responses back before finishing his sentence. “Call back in an hour.” When he picks up the phone an hour later, smack in […]
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Easy excess at Rinaldo’s
Rinaldo’s 2186 Windsor Street Tue-Thu 11:30am-10pm, Fri 11:30am-1am, Sat 10am-3pm and 5pm-1am, Sun 10am-3pm and 5pm-10pm As I walk down Cunard Street towards the bus stop, two little boxes sitting as heavily in my bag as the slowly digesting carbs sit in my stomach, I make a promise to myself: I will never go back […]
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A night at Bar Kismet
Bar Kismet 2733 Agricola Street Tue-Sun 5pm-12am One of the biggest downsides of writing about a restaurant that you really love is the potential to ruin your chance of ever getting a table at that restaurant ever again. When there are only a few dozen seats, you kind of want to keep every single one […]