The next time you stop by the Food Wolf, someone new may be dishing out your K-dogs. Co-owners Natalie Chavarie and Virgil Muir have decided to sell the popular food truck, which first hit HRM’s streets in 2013. “It was a really personal decision to work through,” says Chavarie. For her, the incentive for selling […]
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SCIENCE MATTERS: Food security is important for humans and other animals
[Image-1] As leaves change colour and drop from trees, and a chill in the air signals the approach of winter, many of us are thinking of the fall harvest and hearty soups and dishes that will soon warm our bellies. Not everyone is lucky enough to enjoy such thoughts. About four million Canadians—including more than […]
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Halifax’s unofficial foods
[Image-1] One of the city’s strangest claims to fame is that last year council took the time to vote the drippy donair our Official Food. But instead of making a case for why the no-frills, late-night snack defines our collective palate, we’ve created a menu of unofficial Halifax foods that can give you an introduction […]
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Forget that expensive meal plan
[Image-1] Produce surprise pack Volunteer with Found NS (an organization aiming to reduce food waste) and you’ll share in their spoils. When farmers’ and produce growers’ unused crops are nearing over-ripeness, FoundNS volunteers pitch in to harvest the spoils and workers are rewarded by keeping a portion of the freshly picked produce. Past hauls have included […]
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SCIENCE MATTERS: How much food can cities produce?
[Image-1] Humans are fast becoming city dwellers. According to the United Nations, “The urban population of the world has grown rapidly from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014.” Sixty-six percent of us will likely live in urban environments by 2050. The number of mega-cities (more than 10 million inhabitants) is also skyrocketing, […]
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SCIENCE MATTERS: How much food can cities produce?
Humans are fast becoming city dwellers. According to the United Nations, “The urban population of the world has grown rapidly from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014.” Sixty-six per cent of us will likely live in urban environments by 2050. The number of mega-cities (more than 10 million inhabitants) is also skyrocketing, […]
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The Dartmouth North Community Food Centre needs a few good gardeners
[Image-1] “The meals make you feel rich!” is a comment you’ll hear often at the Dartmouth North Community Food Centre, located on Primrose Street in Dartmouth. The centre, which opened last year as a project of the Dartmouth Family Centre in partnership with Community Food Centres Canada, takes an innovative, well-rounded approach to addressing food […]
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10 years of suds at Seaport Beerfest
When Brian Titus answers the phone, he politely says this might not be the best time to talk. Outside at Pier 23, near the Cunard Centre, he’s hard at work ripping open the many flats of beers arriving for the 10th annual Seaport Beerfest. The loud thumps and bangs from this effort reverberate through the […]
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Eyelevel’s appetite for conversation
Emily Lawrence and I meet for our interview on a particularly summery-feeling afternoon. The heat is radiating from the sidewalk as we make our introductions. Soon, under a candy-blue sky, the meeting becomes an impromptu mini-picnic, complete with melting ice cream and sweating iced coffee on the Common. It’s fitting for the subject matter as […]
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Flying Apron soars in Summerville
Summer sunshine means the bumpy tangle of country roads in Hants County is dotted with rust-tinged yard sales and rickety signs advertising fresh eggs and homemade jams and pickles. On our drive up to Summerville we pass cows leaning lazily into the wind-rustled grass and horses, bored and dozy in the sunshine, serenely staring at […]
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SCIENCE MATTERS: Feeding humanity in a warming world
Calculating farming’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is difficult, but experts agree that feeding the world’s people has tremendous climate and environmental impacts. Estimates of global emissions from farms range widely. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency puts them at 24 percent, including deforestation, making agriculture the second-largest emitter after heat and electricity. Agriculture contributes to […]
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Good enough to eat
There are two types of people in the world. One thinks that it’s really sexy when young Mickey Rourke pops olives and strawberries into Kim Basinger’s trembling mouth and drizzles honey all over her body in the dim light of an open fridge. And the other thinks that chugging a glass of whole milk and […]