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Nova Scotia’s solidarity with Cuba

In late January 1994, Glenn Ells’ phone rang. It was newly-minted Nova Scotia premier John Savage. His officials had just returned from a checking-out-trade-prospects trip to Cuba, he explained to the president of Kings Produce Ltd., and “I think there might be something there for you.” Two years later, Ells’ Wolfville-based fruit and vegetable wholesale […]

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Gonna find out who’s noggy or nice: A blind tasting of seven egg nogs

Seven nogs. Many Dixie cups. One completely amateur blind taste test. In the name of holiday imbibing we got to the bottom of the standard egg nog selection and discovered both minor and complex differences in the flavour profiles of the yellow (or supposedly yellow) elixir. The resounding winner? Scotsburn’s classic Holiday Nog. But there […]

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