So what on earth is a garlic scape? Prior to visiting the Seaport Market this past weekend I wouldn’t have had the foggiest. The name at once brings to mind a pock-marked and otherworldly lunar vegetable patch, or perhaps obscure vernacular for a halitosis-enabled jailbreak. But as I discovered on Saturday, garlic scapes are in […]
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Sean Gallagher on buying local food
Like many people from Ontario who visit Halifax for school, Sean Gallagher got hooked into Halifax pretty quickly, and decided to stay. “I was in university doing commerce co-op and a lot of entrepreneurial work terms,” says the Ottawa native, who enrolled at Dalhousie seven years ago. “I figured that I should just start something […]
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Assembling a local picnic basket
Sunday August 30 is the Incredible Picnic, the province-wide celebration of local food. At the Halifax location, on the Garrison Grounds, onsite vendors will have samples, but the truly adventuresome will bring their own picnic baskets. You can’t, however, rely on imported picnic staples like watermelon. Fortunately, savvy Maritime entrepreneurs make eating locally easier. Starters […]