I was very cleverly away from Montreal during the record snowfall just before New Year’s, but the consequences are in many ways still visible weeks afterwards. Snow has been carted away and sidewalks cleared, but there are still beautiful drifts on the mountain, gleaming distractingly outside my classroom window. The short-cut alley is still full [...]
This weekend felt like winter. It wasn’t so much the cold, or the fact that the trees are pretty well bare now. There wasn’t any snow, or even that much ice. Still, there was a quality of silence to the weekend, a particular kind of cocooning quiet. There was the sort of darkness that shrinks [...]
Contrary to appearances, I have not been run over by a bus. Nor have I moved to an isolated farm in rural Tennessee. Nor have I given up entirely on the idea of eating. No, life has simply been very full lately. Full of rehearsals, and then performances, for a production of the Bacchae. Full of school [...]
In spite of my best efforts to plan ahead, whenever I go away I end up frantically using up edible oddments that will not last through my absence. I just get so darn excited about vegetables that I can’t seem to stand having fewer than three meals’ worth around at any given moment. This time, [...]
Apparently broccoli-cheese soup is one of those things that everyone except me has tried, or at the very least heard of. Up until this week, I’ve been living in a broccoli-cheese soup-free bubble, utterly ignorant of the pleasures that awaited me. I was fully aware of the wonderful marriage that is possible between broccoli and [...]
It’s been soup weather lately—blustery, grey, and cold—and I’ve been craving split pea soup for weeks. Split pea soup has been one of my favourites for a long time. It took me a while to warm up to, mainly because I had read James Marshall’s George and Martha too many times as a child. (It [...]
Winter has finally descended on Montreal. The snow suddenly remembered that it is supposed to fall this time of year, and coated the ground with a thick mantle of downy white powder. Public transport became sporadic, walking an adventure. The unseasonably warm temperatures we’ve been enjoying plummeted. Now the air is so crisply clear it [...]
