Kiwifruit Trivia

When Eve was visiting a few weeks ago, she said that someone was touring grocery stores in her area teaching people how to eat kiwifruit efficiently. I expressed some scepticism that this was necessary; she assured me it was. For fun I decided to do a photo shoot of how to cut and eat kiwifruit [...]

Coffee Musings

The Pacific Northwest is meant to be an area full of coffee bars and people addicted to the bean, but in Vancouver it’s not the number one addiction by any means, at least judging by the number of establishments you see. It’s far easier to find sushi than coffee! Some anecdotal evidence - we took [...]

Blau-Rote Grütze

Since a couple of members of the group I work in were in town for the Liberty meeting, I invited them to dinner last night. For dessert, I decided to make Rote Grütze, which is pretty much the standard dessert in Berlin at this time of year. It’s popular throughout Northern Germany, and I’m told [...]

More Coffee

Not that I’m actually addicted (in fact at the moment I’m not drinking much coffee at all, the occasional latte is about it for now), but I came across another coffee-related link for Vancouver. This one proves just what sort of coffee-loving area I live in - according to Delocator there are 69 “non-corporate” (their [...]

Do-it-yourself Coffee Roasting

For the truly addicted connoisseurs: Dave Shea’s Caffeinated posting shows you how to roast your own coffee beans, with instructions and comments. This is one of the more interesting uses of Flickr from my perspective.

Okanagan Wineries

We went up to the Okanagan wine district for the Canada Day weekend this year, and I think it’s about time I wrote down some of my impressions of the vineyards and the wine. We took my friend Sally (she of G&T fame who knows a lot about wine), and had a great time. Tim [...]