Everyone who loves sugar knows that chocolate on Valentine’s Day makes for a great gift. But if you’re really trying to impress your favourite chocolate-lover on February 14, you can’t just pick up the first bar or box of sweets (or any, to be quite honest) that you find on the grocery store shelf. Instead, […]
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25 for 25: episode 2000
We’re finally in the new Willennium. Our editorial colleague Allison Saunders joins us in studio to chat about Hershey’s laying off workers at the old Moirs plant (plus the difference between American and Canadian Pot of Golds). We also run down the greatest Atlantic Canadian albums of all time (as chosen by Coast readers in […]
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King & North’s chocolate works of art
King & North Chocolate facebook.com/kingandnorth “Chocolate is so fun. It has such a sense of fun attached to it,” says Jesse Gallant. “From the moment you’re a kid and you try it the first time, it’s something that’s so exciting and playful.” Gallant is the owner of a small-batch chocolate business called King & North, […]
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Quality Street chocolates, the video breakdown
It was last year around this point in the season that Coasters Stephanie Johns, Tara Thorne and Allison Saunders took their “walk down Quality Street to dissect the residents of the holiday season’s most iconic coffee table treat.” The story they wrote, “The original tin,” became a foil-wrapped flashpoint for debate. This year, our NSCC […]
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The original tin
There’s nothing blatantly festive about Quality Street, it’s actually available year-round though for some reason it tastes like a certain time of year. But these days it’s as common a Christmas ornament as a poinsettia, decorating office front desks and grandmothers’ coffee tables, a perfect afterthought gift and guaranteed conversation starter. So as an ode […]
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Where I Work: Rousseau Chocolatier
WHO HE IS Julien Rousseau-Dumarcet is standing in front of a fountain-like machine that’s heating a silky tub of pure dark chocolate, stirring out lumps and waiting for it to hit the perfect Easter bunny-making temperature of 31 degrees. A native of southern France, the longtime chocolatier—who owns Rousseau Chocolatier with his wife Nathalie Morin—has […]
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Rousseau Chocolatier sweetens Hollis Street
Chocolate lovers rejoice! This Saturday, May 3, there will be a new chocolate shop opening its doors to satisfy our sweet-tooth needs and tempt us with the delicious scent of local artisan chocolates. You may remember seeing them at Halifax’s Historic Farmer’s Market on a Saturday but now they have a permanent spot at 1277 […]
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Paul Royter
Q: Who are you? A: I am Paul Royter and my main job is to entertain. As a child I always wanted to be able to do things that nobody else could do. I received a magic kit as a boy in grade 1 and actually pursued a career as a magician for many years […]
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go easy on me at Eyelevel Gallery
It’s tough being an artist. All that criticism, all that intense staring. Eyelevel Gallery’s first installment in their five week series of members’ shows gently reminds the viewer to be nice. Called go easy on me, the inaugural Eyelevel Members’ Weekly show includes “art about diaries, self-portraiture and feelings” and runs until July 23. The […]
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Delicious discovery at the Savour Food and Wine Festival
A cork pops, the trigger pull on a liquid starter’s pistol, and the foodie event called Decadence begins with Fresita, a Chilean sparkling wine, glistening ruby-red in a gently fizzing orchestra of champagne flutes. On the Friday before Valentine’s Day, Decadence is the first of three keynote events at this month’s Savour Food & Wine […]