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Here’s a few reasonably priced holiday wine recommendations (either for giving or drinking, or both) from among the many wines I’ve tried in the past few weeks. For the whites, both the Seven Hills Viognier…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: drink, holiday, suggestions, Wine | No Comments »
My friend Diane, chef and Food & Beverage Manager at Saint John’s Imperial Theatre, heard I was sick this week and sent me her recipe for the traditional Maritime remedy for all that ails me: a Rum Toddy!…
Posted by: Alexa Clark on Monday, December 18th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: cinnamon, drink, rum, therapy, tradition | No Comments »
I love wine. And as much as I wish I could always afford a Cakebread or a Rothschild, well, I can’t – hardly ever, really. So finding a decent wine under $15 is always a treat. I recently had an opportunity to…
Posted by: Erin Kampf on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: drink, suggestions, Wine | 1 Comment »
Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!! My first experience with Beaujolois Nouveau came in Geneva, Switzerland. I was visiting a friend who was interning at the UN, and the week before he had popped across the border…
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: drink, suggestions, Wine | 2 Comments »
When I go out with friends we drink beer, or vodka, or tequila, or a combination of the aforementioned drinks. Would ever dream of going out with 2 friends and drinking Mojitos? Never…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: Crazy Bear, drink, lime, mojito, Soho, Travel | No Comments »
I’m not sure what our wine-guru friend Colin would say about this. French Rabbit Wine comes in a tetra pack! But think of the advantages – unbreakable, light-weight, no corkscrew needed, resealable, and…
Posted by: Andrea Busse on Friday, September 29th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: alcohol, drink, French Rabbit, tetra, Wine | 1 Comment »
There are certain criteria for assessing the quality of anything. For that new pair of running shoes you got last week, the Canada Prime ribeye you had for dinner last night. And so on. For beer, there’s fizziness,…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: beer, drink, Phillips Brewing, Phoenix Gold Lager | No Comments »
On Sunday, I bought an ice cream maker. Seems a bit frivilous, doesn’t it? Well, I may have tended to agree until this morning, when I made my first bowl of Gatorade sorbet.
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: dessert, drink, experiment, gatorade, ice cream, sorbet, therapy | 1 Comment »
“I really need to relax in a café with a cup of Italian coffee,” emailed my Italian Canadian friend Jennifer recently, inquiring “can you recommend somewhere good?” Ha. Can I ever. I live near…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 5th, 2006
Categories: Worship | Tags: americano, Cafe Calabria, cappucino, coffee, Commercial-Drive, drink, italian, vancouver | 2 Comments »
Welcome to Norway, land of the most beautiful people on earth. And while looking gorgeous, they can turn out some pretty mean chow: so far I’ve had a seriously good lamb stew, made by my wife’s grandmother,…
Posted by: Colin Coutts on Saturday, May 27th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: champagne, cream soda, drink, norway, soft drink | No Comments »
A Canadian scientist claims to have proven that the world’s most expensive coffee really does taste better because the beans it is produced from have been eaten and defecated by a wild cat. PUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 12th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: civet cat, coffee, drink, science | No Comments »
Another easy and wonderful traditional Indian dish you can impress your friends with is home made chai. Not the crap you make from a box or pour from concentrate either. Real chai. Chai is black tea steeped in hot milk,…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, April 28th, 2006
Categories: Guidance | Tags: chai, drink, homemade, indian, milk, recipe, tea | No Comments »
Every now and again at IBC we award The Great Boo Award to our favourite drink. It is in honour of Mark’s Great Uncle Boo, who was a narcoleptic. He slept long and late, sometimes for days so when he finally woke…
Posted by: Paul Wallace on Friday, February 24th, 2006
Categories: Meditations | Tags: alcohol, award, drink, tradition, vodka | No Comments »