Rich and I checked out the Green Living Show on Saturday, thanks to two free tickets from Ecochick. We missed the show last year and had been looking forward to checking out all the green products this year. There were lots of vendors showing off non-food items like home decor and appliances, clothing, cars and […]
This is probably the last Ottawa restaurant review I’ll be doing, at least while I actually live in Ottawa! Rich and I had the pleasure of heading here on December 30th with two friends and another lovely couple we’d just met that evening. Juniper has long been one of our favourite restaurants in Ottawa. Like […]
I am a sucker for a great wine label. French wine and spirit naming is subject to a whole pile of regulations. You’ve probably heard how only wine made from grapes from the Champagne region can be called “Champagne”, for instance, but similar rules apply to all of the controlled-origin (Appellation d’origine contrôlée, AOC) regional […]
So as I mentioned previously, Candice and I spent our honeymoon in Paris a couple of weeks ago. Surprisingly, we didn’t do a whole lot of food tourism — I think we were too busy doing regular tourist stuff! — but that didn’t keep us from having a great time there food-wise, and spoiling ourselves […]