With Chianti Classico When the weather gets nicer, don’t you just want things to get a little simpler? Whether it be shedding the layers of warm clothing or exchanging slow cooked dinners for something that gets you in and out of the kitchen in a hurry, it’s spring and we want the living to be...
Judging by that headline, it might be fair to say we’re a wee bit delirious with these early wafts of spring. After such a long, long, looong winter, we’re cautious that this could just be a coy tease from that saucy minx Mother Nature, but, weaklings that we are, we’ll yield to temptation and revel...
We’ve got to scurry to get this out: later this evening we’ll be powering down for Earth Hour. It’s always an interesting, refreshing and somewhat scary 60 minutes. What are we going to do for an entire hour without power? Talk to each other? Well, we’ve always got the safety net of smart phones and...
Or, our wine picks for a wet, cold, snowy start to Spring We have a few dear friends from the maritimes and have heard more than once the jokes about braving the elements on the east coast: “Don’t like the weather? Wait five minutes,” and, “Don’t like what’s happening out your front door? Go...
From prosperity to poverty and back again, Irish Whiskey has been battered and bloodied, but survived the perils of history and is back for another round. Much like the tumultuous past of the country, Irish whiskey has had its fair share of ups and downs. Going from the choice drink of the Queen of...
So it turns out February 18th is National Wine Day. And we missed it. Maybe the invitation got lost in the mail, maybe NWD (may we be so informal as to call it, NWD?), needs a new PR team, or maybe we’re just not paying close enough attention to social media. No matter, every day...
We love comfort food. Stews, soups and roasts totally ring our dinner bell, especially when it’s -18℃ outside. It also helps that the soul warming reds we crave during the dark and cold winter months, often pair perfectly with whatever is simmering on the stove. However, after a long and arduous winter such as this...
The other day a friend remarked how winter must have got a new marketing team. What once was simply standard Canadian weather – frigid, icy, snowy and blowy – is now christened ominous names like Polar Vortex ands Siberian Express. Sure it is darn cold: an uncomfortable, pain in the arse, hurting kind of cold...
It’s been a while since we last wrote, and we really have to apologize. All the marketing gurus and social media “experts” tell us to blog frequently and engage with our readership, and it seems to have fallen off the wagon in the last few months and we’re sorry because we really like talking to...
The other day Environment Canada released its top 10 weather stories for 2013. We were reading this recap amid a freezing rain storm in Toronto, holed up in our homes as power outages affected TTC, businesses and 250-thousand residences. This latest TKO from Mother Nature arrived only days after the first snowstorm of the season blew...
