We Walk 4Water
Last year, Spencer West climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ...
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Crafter Q+A: Maxine Chan of Tulle Box Designs
Name: Maxine Chan Location: Vancouver, B.C. Title:...
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How a creative community attracts savvy shoppers and diners
A creative community bands together to offer uniqu...
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Vietnamese Iced Coffee
If you’re anything like me, no blissful, hot...
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Guest post: Chic and easy DIY nail art
Sarah Feldman is a recent graduate of McGill Unive...
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5 keys to clean teeth, plus win an electric toothbrush
**UPDATE: This contest is now closed. What’s...
Tina Anson Mine
Member since Jul 20, 2010
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Winner: National Cupcake Day prize package
Thanks for all the cupcake love last week for our National Cupcake Day giveaway. I have learned of your deep and abiding passion for red velvet cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes and vanilla cupcakes – and everything in between. Photo, Jeff Coulson/TC Media But on to the business of this post – the winner of the fabulous [...]
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Giveaway: Help fight animal cruelty on National Cupcake Day
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society has created a tasty new holiday: The first-ever National Cupcake Day in Canada on Feb. 25, 2013. The day is designed to raise funds for Canada’s shelters, humane societies and provincial SPCAs. Individuals or teams register and invite friends to their National Cupcake Day party. At the party, guests donate money and dig [...]
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Fresh Fridays Finale: Veggie Noodle Stir-Fries Save the Day
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the course of this summer and my CSA-box adventure, it’s that you need a good Garbage Soup recipe. Someone once told me about a clever relative (friend?) who always used up all the veggies in her crisper. Every Friday, this frugal person made what she called “Garbage Soup.” [...]
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Fresh Fridays: Organic farm tour + double-crust pizza = yummy
My childhood ruined me for supermarket vegetables. When I was a kid, my dad grew an enormous vegetable garden, overflowing with peas, corn, eggplants, zucchini, tomatoes and about a dozen other delicious veggies. We even grew popcorn in a little patch we called “Tina’s garden,” though I recall my father doing all the weeding while [...]
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Coming tomorrow: Fresh Fridays begin!
Ask any of us who work in and around The Test Kitchen, and we’ll tell you we’re passionate about local food. Some of us plant vegetable gardens, some visit farmer’s markets, and some buy a share in a local farm. But no matter where we get our produce, we all enjoy the fleeting pleasure of fresh crisp [...]
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Two tasty places to visit in Orlando, Florida
In September, I got a chance to visit Orlando, Fla., with a group of journalists and see what the area has to offer. I ate tons of delicious food there, but two fun, food-oriented stops really stood out. Mainly because they involve two things that are my food equivalent of Kryptonite: wine and chocolate. First [...]
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Lunch with Ted Reader, the King of the Q, in Honey Harbour
When I say I love barbecue, I mean two things: 1. No namby-pamby, unsmoked grilled-for-15-minutes meat; and 2. I could eat the stuff till it came out my ears. My husband and I are both huge fans of Southern barbecue, thanks to university years spent south of the Mason-Dixon line in the U.S. So imagine [...]
