Category Archives: Food and Drink

What’s New for the 29th of September: Louisiana’s Lost Bayou Ramblers, live music by Kathryn Tickell, Ottawa based urban fantasies by Charles de Lint, Norwegian saxophonist Karl Seglem, Gus on the Estate Kitchen garden and other Autumnal matters

Posted on 19th September 2024 by Diverse Voices

Every good fiddler has a distinctive sound. No matter how many play the same tune, each can’t help but play it differently. Some might use an up stroke where another would a down. One might bow a series of quick … Continue reading →

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Lärabar’s Chocolate Peanut Caramel Truffle Bars

Posted on 15th August 2023 by Gary Whitehouse

I had a snappy opening line all prepared for this review (“Move over, Trader Joe’s ‘These Peanuts Go On A Date’ Bars”) but it turns out I’m too late. As usual. First, there have been lengthy discussions on various forums … Continue reading →

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Portland, Oregon’s County Cork Public House; Deschutes Brewery’s Jubel 2010, and Rogue Ales Hazelnut Brown Nectar

Posted on 29th July 2023 by Diverse Voices

Kelley Caspari submitted this review. Saturday evening my friend Diane and I strolled down to County Cork Public House, our local pub. Last summer we had a standing date once a week there, but with the winter weather we started … Continue reading →

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Diamond Salted Dark Chocolate Walnuts

Posted on 9th May 2023 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

Dark chocolate is a superfood. Walnuts are a superfood. So combining them would be super-duper, right? You bet’cha. These snacky bits are so super, in fact, I figured they’d come with a cape. Luckily though, no cape. Edna Mode would … Continue reading →

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Limited Edition Blackout Cake Flavor Creme Oreos

Posted on 3rd May 2023 by Lis Carey

I have a certain love for Oreo cookies, as I think befits a working class “you’re going to college and going to be middle class” kid of the Fifties and Sixties. No, we weren’t raised to be gourmets. We were … Continue reading →

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Lindt Lindor Dark Chocolate Truffles

Posted on 27th April 2023 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

Dark chocolate is awesome. We all know this. It’s decadent. It’s bittersweet. It’s good for your heart. It may even prevent some forms of cancer! But when chocolate touts itself as dark but isn’t? It’s not just a sad trombone for … Continue reading →

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It must be Summer, because I crave chilequiles

Posted on 20th June 2022 by Jennifer Stevenson

So you’ve been turning over the compost heap with a garden fork? Celebrating Summer rather heartily with friends? Just feeling a little crappy but a lot hopeful, as if, with a good meal, the world might become a better place … Continue reading →

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For summer food joy, roast a whole pig

Posted on 20th June 2022 by Jennifer Stevenson

Around about our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, by my request, my hubby built a pig roaster. This was constructed of two open-top 55-gallon steel drums, sliced endways and welded back together into a tube that hinged along the back, with a … Continue reading →

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Madeleine Pelner Cosman’s Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony

Posted on 27th April 2022 by Diverse Voices

Michelle Erica Green wrote this review. Partly a history of medieval cooking, partly an illustrated guide to the harvesting and processing of food and partly a recipe book, Fabulous Feasts offers – well, to borrow an anachronism, a smorgasbord of … Continue reading →

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A Kinrowan Estate story: Central European creature comforts

Posted on 13th February 2022 by Jack Merry

Jack Merry here. If you’ve got a bit of time to spare, I could use your help! Remember me mentioning a couple of weeks ago that the fellow violinists in the Huddled Masses Violin Ensemble (at their reunion somewhere in … Continue reading →

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