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Survey: What do you get in your CSA basket?
I am very happy to be eating again. I am also pretty thankful that my CSA has taken me back. During the summer months, I looked forward to each and every Thursday, which was the day when I could pick up my box of local organic vegetables. I never knew what I would be eating over the coming 7 days and I always anticipated the upcoming bounty. I discovered
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Spreading the seed & detox summary
This past Sunday was the 7th Annual Seed Fair at the Montreal Botanical Gardens. I guess I missed the first six editions so I was happy when my friend Marc asked me to join him for this one. I always save some seeds each year so I was glad to have the opportunity not only to share my seeds with other
Detox
I am about to turn a corner in my life. A sharp corner. This isn't a story about eating organic food, or even local food. This is a story about not eating any food at all. Besides eating to survive, I have been getting more deeply involved in food and eating for about 20 years. It all began when I was
I have worms in my apartment!!
My friend Kate gets the willies from creepy-crawly things. Of course, my friend Kate is also a landscape architect. I suppose there is a possibility that she became a landscape architect specifically to battle her demons, but in the end, they still give her the heebie-jeebies. When Kate heard that
Winter realities in Montreal, Canada
This has been a pretty hard week for me. You see, I’ve spent the last two or three years getting more acquainted with the environment and sustainable food sources, but I never really felt accountable to anyone but myself — and I was a pretty forgiving person, to myself at least. I tried to do the
Letter from Montreal: A visit to Jean-Talon Market
Dairy Queen here: To me, one of the best parts of being involved in this blog is getting to read my five fellow Ethicureans' points of view, hailing from different parts of the country and with varying preoccupations. In this case, I think, many cooks just makes for more interesting soup. We would
