Managing director Devour! The Food Film Festival As a teenager, Lia Rinaldo got a job at the legendary Wormwoods Dog & Monkey Cinema, which led to the Atlantic Film Festival. “All of a sudden I blinked and 20 years had passed. It was a life in film and I never really planned on it,” she […]
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Marie Nightingale
Food writer and editor 1928-2014 On March 15 of this year, Marie Nightingale passed away after a battle with cancer. The obituary she wrote for herself was “Marie says goodbye.” The legacy she wrote for herself was Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens. You really can’t talk about food or cooking in Nova Scotia, the […]
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Stephanie Bertossi
Co-owner of The Bertossi Group (The Bicycle Thief, il Mercato, La Frasca Cibi + Vini, Ristorante a Mano) Stephanie Bertossi says it was a fluke that she ended up in the food industry. “I moved to Calgary and I had to get a job,” she laughs. “And I just never looked back.” Since then, she’s […]
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Ingrid Dunsworth
The Cake Lady, Seaport Farmers’ Market, 1209 Marginal Road In the Spring, Ingrid Dunsworth—The Cake Lady—met Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall. “We had a good conversation and he said he really enjoyed and appreciated how I decorated and how fresh all my cakes looked.” She sent a package to London, and was invited […]
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Local food movement under attack
Thanksgiving is over, but turkey is still on the menu at Province House. Tomorrow a group of “concerned Nova Scotians dedicated to ensuring Food Sovereignty” will present a petition of over 3,000 signatures to the legislature. The move comes from what some are calling “questionable actions” by Minister of Agriculture Keith Colwell and the actual-thing-that-exists […]
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Presenting, the 12th annual Best of Food Awards
Oh, hi everyone. Happy Thursday. And Happy Best of Food day! You dined and dished on your favourite bars and restos in town, and after much tabulating we’re serving up the results. Old reliables! Big upsets! Major meal inspiration! Find it all HERE. Thanks again for voting, Halifax. You’ve got great taste.
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Dine Around: Flavours of Nova Scotia kicks off
Generally February is a pretty big downer. Smack in the middle winter, it can be hard to motivate yourself to do, well, anything. But usually, no matter how Eeyore-ish you’re feeling, good food has the power to perk anyone up. Luckily, the shortest month of the year is also , a month-long opportunity for local […]
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European delight
Tucked into Halifax’s own little Europe, the Hydrostone Market, the restaurant Little Europe does its best to give you a continental experience. It’s a small space, warm and dusky with a faux-finish cobblestone floor that gives the dining room the air of a sidewalk cafe in Portofino or Madrid. A large chandelier looms above with […]
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Best of Food 2010
Welcome to the ninth annual Best of Food readers’ poll. You, dear voter, are the most important part of Halifax’s most important bar and restaurant awards. These awards are based solely on what readers decide. The survey is open for voting from February 25 until noon on March 29, and anyone in Halifax can register […]
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Grocery store aphrodisiacs
OYSTERS Casanova’s ace-in-the-hole for bedding the ladies, oysters are chock-full of zinc, which increases libido for both genders. My sources suggested novices fry ’em instead of eating them raw, but either way most of our energy was spent on the half-hour struggle just to pry them open. Potent, perhaps not; but delicious nonetheless. Results: Listlessness […]
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Cheap Eats – Seven Dishes under Seven Dollars
$6.50 – McCoastal breakfast sandwich Coastal Coffee The description of the McCoastal, Coastal’s breakfast sandwich, comes across as tasty but innocuous: two fried eggs, havarti cheese, maple sausage on an English muffin. But the actual physical presence of this delicacy is something else altogether. It is roughly the size of a small human baby. The […]
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Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, Michael Pollan (Penguin)
Depending on from where you are approaching Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, the author has either finely distilled his exhaustive research on the industrial food chain and North America’s often counter-intuitive eating habits into approachable, easily digestible rules to govern food choices—or he has severely dumbed down his message. If you’ve read Pollan’s previous works, The […]
