Autumn in Nova Scotia is a pretty spectacular season—not only do we have the most brilliant and breathtaking foliage fall colours, but it’s harvest time, a time when our fields give up the crunchiest apples, the sweetest squash and, of course, the best dried out cornstalks to use for your front door Halloween decorations. And […]
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Salad days
Fast food outlets are pretty slick. They provide our multitasking, overworked, commuting car-bound asses with cheap, fast, tasty food like burgers and fries. Then we get fat from eating the greasy food, but they come to our rescue again with choices labelled “Healthy” or “Lean and Green.” We truly have become a fast food culture, […]
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Taste test
Every year, a little booklet appears all over Nova Scotia and trumpets the virtues of the restaurants included therein. These restaurants belong to the Taste of Nova Scotia Society, and all pay for admission to the Society and its book, geared towards the tourism market. So, can what amounts to paid advertising (on the surface) […]
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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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No spring chicken
A camperdown elm shoots through the concrete parking lot and stretches towards a neon sign. Its drooping branches weave around the windows of the restaurant. It occupies at least three potential parking spaces. Trucks have hit it over the years. It lost one side to a backhoe. Dutch Elm disease threatened to kill it. But […]