Last year, I publically re-capped my year in bites with the best eats of 2011. It was a simultaneously easy and challenging – we had eaten so well it wasn’t difficult to think of many wonderful meals, but it was certainly hard to narrow it down and pick the number one meal. This year, I … Continue reading »
WB and I are procrastinators. Sometimes it gets the better of us. But sometimes it leads us to things we wouldn’t have discovered if we had things our way in the first place. For our anniversary in Toronto, WB and I wanted to eat at Scaramouche, consistently rated at the top of Toronto’s best restaurants … Continue reading »
I’ve written before of our love of markets as places not only for great food, but to get a feel for the centre of local life in a city. In North America, this idea is perhaps a little less pronounced. Grocery stores still dominate even in big cities, but on weekends, locals and tourists alike … Continue reading »
On August 27, 2011 – less than a month after moving back to Canada – WB and I tied the knot surrounded by family and friends in a beautiful backyard ceremony. To celebrate our one year anniversary, WB and I wanted to do something special. Being young and poor (but in love!) our options were … Continue reading »
Eric Fischer has put together maps of large metropolises visually representing where tourists take photos, versus where locals take pictures (and how many of each they are). London‘s is particularly visually striking, just for the enormous quantity of photos taken over such a sprawling landscape. Most – the blue – are local, though it’s hard … Continue reading »
I’ve been MIA lately in everything regarding the internet and my computer. I haven’t written, I haven’t tweeted, I’ve barely perused Facebook. I’ve worked, I’ve spent evenings reading in bed, I’ve seen old friends, I’ve daytripped around Southwestern Ontario, I’ve had dinners out, given up coffee temporarily (and replaced it with large quantities of herbal … Continue reading »
(In order of appearance in our lives) What Canadians Eat: smoked meat | on Schwartz’s famous deli A week in | reflections on a week of living in London An English Weekend + the merits of tea | museums, Hyde park, a bout of rain and a spot of tea Best (and worst) of British: … Continue reading »
When I asked WB what I should write about Saturday’s Forest City Beer Fest, held at apk live in downtown London, Ontario, he said: “It was good. There was beer.” Though that is both concise and true, I figured I’d go into a bit more detail. Enquiring minds want to know (maybe). So as you … Continue reading »
One of my favourite cocktails happens to be Canada’s most popular one; but it also happens to be a drink order that will garner strange looks and many questions if ordered just about anywhere else in the world. It’s a beverage truly unique to the Great White North, which is a shame, because it’s delicious. … Continue reading »
Okay, so I don’t know if this actually includes all the Londons in the world, but I actually kind of like this Nike commercial, as much as it behooves me to instinctually not take advertising too seriously. There is a nod to London, Canada, actually the biggest of all the little Londons showcased around the … Continue reading »
