Filmmaker Phyllis Ellis hopes to send you scrambling to the shower to search out labels on your soap and shampoo. After all, her eye-opening documentary Toxic Beauty (trailer below; streaming now on CBC Gem) not only follows the class-action suit against Johnson & Johnson—and the company’s cancer-linked baby powder—but Ellis also uncovers an unregulated amalgam […]
Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market
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Bliss Bowls blends beautiful nourishment
Bliss Bowls Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market 1209 Marginal Road Saturdays and Sundays Erin Lecky, founder of Bliss Bowls, discovered her love for smoothie bowls while visiting Bali a few years ago. “I didn’t get very good at surfing,” she says. “But I did find the most delicious smoothie bowls. When I came home, I was […]
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Eat this: Elaine’s Brazilian Bakery
T here is a very friendly baker at the Seaport Farmers’ Market who you should pay a visit to. Elaine Sphair wakes up at 4am to bake delicious the Brazilian treats that she sells every other week, on Mondays and Tuesdays at the market. There you’ll find her spread of freshly made pão de queijo […]
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Omar Gandhi’s opus
Omar Gandhi: Defining a Process Thursday, April 11, 7pm Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market 1209 Marginal Road, $15-$25, eventbrite.ca Omar Gandhi is a storyteller. The architect treats each building as a blank page onto which he weaves a narrative of time and place. “I want our projects to be an extension of a story,” he says. Before […]
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Mary’s African Cuisine is making moves
Mary’s African Cuisine 1701 Barrington Street Two months ago Mary Nkrumah, the entrepreneur behind Seaport Farmers’ Market staple Mary’s African Cuisine, took over ownership of Baba Ghanouj Cafe. Those who’ve eaten there since then might not have noticed—falafel, shawarma and eggs benny are still served. It was only two weeks ago that the green Baba […]
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Best Butcher Shop
Gold Winner Gateway Meat Market Silver Winner Getaway Farm, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Bronze Winner Getaway Farm, Hydrostone Tamara Selig cannot say enough about her staff at Gateway Meat Market. According to the co-owner of the beloved, no-frills grocery and butcher all 40 of them get just as pumped for the shop’s sales as the customers […]
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DRINK THIS: Avondale Sky’s Benediction
Avondale Sky Winery just released a new vintage of its Benediction, a traditional (Champagne) method sparkling wine made from Geisenheim 318—a grape hybrid bred at (and named for) the Geisenheim Research Centre, from parents Riesling and Chancellor. The grape may have originated in Germany, but the wine is all Nova Scotia. Apple cider and rising […]
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Six Haligonians plan their perfect summer days
Oshé Orifa blogger, @osheorifa “My perfect summer day starts with a typical ‘me’ breakfast: Avocado toast and an egg on the side. In the afternoon, I hangout with friends on an Instagram-worthy brunch date at Taiyaki 52. Around the early evening hours, I enjoy what makes Halifax so great in the summer: sun and beer—so […]
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Wake me up before you go-go: 7 brunch dishes to try
Breakfast bowl Wild Leek, 2148 Windsor Street A brunch that’ll keep you pleasantly full instead of I-need-to-go-back-to-sleep full, this egg-free, meat-free, vegan-loving option piles up potatoes, sauteed and steamed veggies and tops them with seitan bacon, sesame seeds and a very addictive dragon sauce. Chilaquiles Fox Hill Market and Deli, 2760 Robie Street A traditional […]
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Flameworks Elixirs brings the magic
Flameworks Elixirs Halifax Brewery Farmers’ Market 1496 Lower Water Street Saturdays 7am-1pm “No weird stuff.” That’s the slogan printed on each jar of Flameworks Elixirs’ sauces, rubs, marinades and jellies. Last winter—five years from the day they first met—Ken Jones and Sue Belford decided to create a line of gluten-free condiments without preservatives or additives. […]
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Just Baked Potatoes interrupts your usual snack plans
Being from the UK, Sara Kirk knows the power of a good baked potato. But it’s not a nostalgia for home or a craving for a loaded spud that lead to her launch Just Baked Potatoes at the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market in mid-January. “I would say it’s more research-informed than passion at this point […]