WHO SHE IS Jessica Best, owner of Birdies Bread Co., remembers the exact moment she fell in love with sourdough. After her culinary training, she began working at a bakery in St. John’s, Newfoundland. On her first day, Best saw the bread coming out after baking. “Making sourdough is such an intimate process,” she says. […]
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Seven free Christmas dinners in the HRM
December can be a lonely place if you don’t have anywhere to go. As people are gathering around the table for turkey this holiday season, local businesses, charities and churches are doing their best to make sure no one goes without some festive cheer—and food. In Dartmouth, Staggers Pub & Grub on Portland Street will […]
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Rozina Darvesh walks the walk
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 […]
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First look: The Stillwell Freehouse
The Stillwell Freehouse 2534 Agricola Street How do you build a new pub? That was the question that challenged Laura MacDonald, Chris Reynolds and Andrew Connell when they started planning what would be the third member of the Stillwell beer bar family over a year ago. With the same beer-forward philosophy they’ve pushed forward with […]
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Common Roots Urban Farm sows its seeds
8th Annual Harvest Hootenanny and Pumpkin Smash Bi-Hi Park, Bayers Road Sat Nov 2 1-5pm As its successful first season in a new location winds down, Common Roots Urban Farm only sees growth in its future. Despite a delayed opening as a result of heavy rains, CRUF has been prospering at its new location at […]
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Annie-Marie Bungay-Larose’s fine balance
Spirited Away Oct 25-27 Various locations, Lunenburg nsspiritsfestival.com Anne-Marie Bungay-Larose was out for a drive one night when she noticed—while the air was cool and crisp—the smell of fresh flowers wafting on the breeze. In that moment, it felt as if winter and summer collided. “I wrote that feeling down,” Bungay-Larose (a Halifax bartender who […]
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Bliss Bowls blends beautiful nourishment
Bliss Bowls Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market 1209 Marginal Road Saturdays and Sundays Erin Lecky, founder of Bliss Bowls, discovered her love for smoothie bowls while visiting Bali a few years ago. “I didn’t get very good at surfing,” she says. “But I did find the most delicious smoothie bowls. When I came home, I was […]
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DISH OF THE MONTH: The Smash Burger
Side Hustle Snack Bar at North Brewing Co. 899 Portland Street Sun-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am-midnight Kathy Jollimore and Brent Darbyson really didn’t mean to. When the co-owners of Side Hustle Snack Bar—the restaurant at North Brewing Company’s weeks-old pastel dream of a taproom—put a burger on their menu, they didn’t think it’d immediately be lauded […]
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The winds of change
After surviving last year’s late spring frost and record-breaking warm summer, Nova Scotian growers recently faced off with Hurricane Dorian’s 120-kilometre-an-hour winds. “It’s been a double whammy,” says Victor Oulton of the extreme weather events in the past two years. Oulton is the president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture, which recently sent out […]
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Meet Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint’s Christine Allen
Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint 1567 Grafton Street Baking was always a side hustle for Christine Allen, a hobby she’d been working at since she was a six-year-old in Jamaica, burning things in her mother’s kitchen. Heavily influenced by the women in her life and their handed-down recipes, Allen’s first foray into selling her food—long before […]
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In this together
Women in Hospitality: The Evolution of Hospitality As Told by Women Sun Sep 8 and November 17 Lot Six, 1685 Argyle Street, 3pm, $25 eventbrite.ca Jessica Babin is at it again. The 28-year-old wine connoisseur who conceived Mermaids and Merlot—a pretension-free wine club for women—to is pressing pause on that particular project to start something […]
