After going to St Jacob’s Market last Thursday, I spent the next few days canning up a storm. I made several dozen jars of spicy dill spears, bread and butter pickles, pickled jalapeños, blueberry jam, strawberry vanilla jam, plain strawberry jam, peach plum ginger jam, brandied peaches, and on Wednesday I had another, more successful, go at […]
Writing advice, reviewing advice, and a new pic of Emily Dickinson Read more »
As this is the fourth edition of Shelf Life, if you’ve been reading this blog with any regularity, you probably have a pretty good idea what it’s about. If you don’t, check out past editions for more info. I’m going to try to make this as brief as I can, as we’re almost halfway through November, and
Shelf Life: September 2011 Read more »
Toronto’s often called a city of neighbourhoods. According to Wikipedia, there are more than 200 distinct neighbourhoods within its boundaries. One of my favourites is the Annex. I love it for its concentration of bookstores, coffee shops, sushi bars and cheap martinis on Wednesdays. My BFF and I started a little tradition (partly captured in “Au Natural”),
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