He was the familiar voice of Maritime Noon on CBC Radio One until his retirement in September. If you’ve been missing his dulcet voice or have a hankering for spice, head on down to the Brewery Market (also known as The Historic Halifax Farmers’ Market, 1496 Lower Water Street) on either (or both) of the next two Saturdays, December 11 and 18, where Costas Halavrezos will be engaging in his “first post-Maritime Noon venture,” selling a selection of spices, spice blends, spice and herb kits and cookbook/spice kit combos.
“For people who like to ‘grind their own,’ I’ll have curries (Jamaican, Sri Lankan and Madras), blends (Satay, Creole, and Turkish kofte), masalas (Tandoori, Vindaloo), herbs (Provençal & Zaatar) and a wonderful variety of aromatic peppers (Chicken Hill from the Cardamom Mountains, Indian long pepper and wild pepper from Madagascar),” explains Halavrezos, who has sourced his spices from from the couple who run Épices de Cru (epicesdecru.com), a company based at the Jean-Talon Market in Montreal. “The bilingual cookbook/spice kit combos and spice kits (between four and eight different spices or blends) make perfect gifts for foodie friends. Or yourself.”
For those who can’t make it down to the market, Halavrezos will be taking orders at costas@halavrezos.ca for the next week or so.
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2010.
Cool. I wish Costas all the best. I still get FURIOUS when I think about how CBC Radio was gutted. Maritime Noon went from having two hours and a half-dozen staff, to one hour and only two people to put it together. In its prime, it was one of my favourite shows on the radio – up there with As It Happens or Ideas. I’m still enormously grateful to Costas for the years of yeoman service he gave us, and I know where I’m buying my paprika from now on!
The CBC could not afford to keep him, they needed the money for local TV news and the 70 staff of ambulance chasers.
I hope Harper gets a majority and takes an axe to the 500 pound stuffed poseurs in Toronto.
Brilliant idea.