If you too spent a mindless night (or fortnight) watching holiday movies, you’ll know The Code for impending romance. Falling Snow + Twinkling Outdoor Lights + Hot Chocolate = First Kiss, Lifelong Love Confirmed. Vancouver may not be sporting snow, but we’ve still got plenty of vestigial holiday lights. From

The holidays are altogether different in 2020. Here is some beautiful bounty to mark feasts with loved ones – those we have enjoyed in the past and those we can look forward to in the future. . Banquet Still Life with self-portrait of the artist in the silver jug Abraham van Beyeren 1655

In 2020, which food cravings had us scrambling to Google for recipes? Trending Canadian Recipe Searches for 2020 i. Easy cookie recipes ii. Buttermilk recipes iii. Butternut squash iv. Sourdough discard v. Scalloped potatoes vi. Bread vii. Coleslaw viii. Crock Pot ix. Breakfast x. Air fryer recipes . We have

All the planning in the world won’t help you in Candy Land. Win, lose – your fate lies in the shuffling of the deck, and the luck of the draw. But, as you drift down the rainbow road, you’ll find yourself in delicious worlds like Peppermint Forest,  Gumdrop Mountain, Princess

Happy Halloween! As we traipse about the house in our costumes, let’s take a moment to appreciate Canadian-born candies. What does it say about our culture that we are the inventors of a gum whose tagline reads: ‘It still tastes like soap’? They may think us mad, but many of

No matter how obscure the task – how to re-attach GI Joe’s legs, how to dress like a Hobbit, how to meow like a cat – You Tube has a tutorial. But, decades before PayPal alumni Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim birthed their video-sharing behemoth, companies were offering how-to tutorials

Chocolate, sour cherries, sponge cake, kirsch, whipping cream, dark chocolate curls. What’s not to like? Black Forest cake – or Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte –   gets its name from Schwarzwälder Kirsch, a sour cherry liqueur distilled in Germany. Some say that the inspiration for this 16th Century sweet came from the Bollenhut, a heavily

Comtesse d’Haussonville, created in 1845 by Jean-August-Dominique Ingrés, is one of the most popular paintings at New York’s beautiful Frick Museum. What might historical admirers drink whilst pondering her challenging gaze? Absinthe: the much-banned, heavily alcoholic green spirit first produced in Switzerland and crafted from a mix of botanicals that include

Amaretto – ‘little bitter’,  the liqueur you might know from the Amaretto Sour, The Godfather, Blueberry Tea – is reputed to be the result of a surprise romance between a 16th Century artist and his widow Madonna muse. In 1525, Bernardino Luini  was brought in to paint frescoes for Santa

As the sun warms our bubbles, we Canadians are in the mood for ice-cream. The flavour that fascinates us most in 2020? Banana. This according to Google Canada’s 2020 list of Ice Cream search trends. . .. When it comes to Canadian cities seeking ice-cream intel,  Vancouver comes in at