One of my goals for the summer is to improve my French. After a few years of living in Montreal, I’ve learned quite a lot: I came to the city after studying French on my own for a little over a week, and now I can function reasonably well. But most of what I know [...]
Do you ever find yourself going on food jags? I don’t mean the sort that you go on when you are eight and something is terribly wrong with the world if you don’t have half a cinnamon raisin bagel with butter (cream cheese? Heaven forbid!) and exactly four slices of Pink Lady apple for lunch [...]
I’m going to get geeky for a few minutes here. Please bear with me. I think that when I look back on my undergrad in ten years’ time, a lot of what I remember will be Euripides’ Hippolytos. For five consecutive semesters, I have had the play assigned in class, written a paper on it, [...]
When the forecast is sunny with a high of 31°C, I have a few requirements for my lunch. First, it must be cold. I’ve heard lengthy debates as to whether eating hot soup when it’s hot actually cools you down or not, but my apartment is unairconditioned and has very poor air circulation, so I’d [...]
Sometime in the distant past my oma and opa gave us a little ice cream maker. It’s hand-cranked, and holds just a pint of ice cream, which is a little awkward because all the recipes are for a quart, but well worth the trouble of splitting the occasional egg. The prospect of losing my supply [...]
I have been told on several occasions that I eat Weird Breakfasts. From a certain perspective, I am guilty as charged. Leftover noodles, tomato soup, dal on toast—these are not what one could call typical items on the average North American breakfast table. I prefer to look at it as reclaiming an space in which [...]
Regardless of the weather or the date on the calendar, the first barbecue of the season speaks of summer. Whether it’s Victoria Day, Memorial Day, or simply a sunny Sunday afternoon, the day when the neighbourhood grills are cleaned off, restocked with fuel, and commissioned with the year’s first outdoor meal—that day marks the beginning [...]
