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Family Fondue

With a picky four-year-old who loves veget­ables but won’t eat much else (she won’t touch pizza or sushi, for example), and an eleven-year-old who’s only slowly start­ing to appre­ci­ate veget­ables and fruit (but loves both pizza and sushi, as a typ­ical Van­couver kid does), meal­times are often a struggle. On a whim a few months […]

2011 01 29 Comments (0)

A Week in August

It seems that August is con­fer­ence sea­son, at least for me. More pre­cisely, one week in August. First Bal­is­age in Mon­tréal (for which the online regis­tra­tion is clos­ing next Fri­day) August 12–15, and then Vinocamp here in Van­couver, at the UBC Botan­ical Garden, on August 16th. I’m speak­ing at the former, and help­ing organ­ise the […]

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2008 07 24 Conference
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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 […]

2006 10 27 Comments (16)

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 […]

2006 08 08 General Comments (0)

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 […]

2006 07 18 Comments (7)

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 […]

2006 04 27 Comments (0)