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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)

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.

2006 04 11 Comments (6)