WHO SHE IS Jessica Best, owner of Birdies Bread Co., remembers the exact moment she fell in love with sourdough. After her culinary training, she began working at a bakery in St. John’s, Newfoundland. On her first day, Best saw the bread coming out after baking. “Making sourdough is such an intimate process,” she says. […]
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The fantastical Nicole Raufeisen
Nicole Raufeisen, manager and sommelier at Little Oak (recently named one of Canada’s Best 100 Restaurants for the second year in a row) and The Ostrich Club, sure can sell a person on wine. Her enthusiastic, unexpected fantastical or pop-cultural descriptors can bring the mere idea of a drink to vibrant life before a drop […]