My October 2019 reading round up may be my last one for a while. I’m back to reading books that I might want to write full posts about. Already this month I’ve reviewed books by Jann Arden and Margaret Feinberg. This likely means that I will be doing less reading for pleasure. As it is,…
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I’m in the middle of a busy food weekend. Friday night I went over to Bella Vista Restaurant. Ross Jeffers, who formerly owned Cafe 1958, is now in charge at Bella Vista. Friday was opening night for him, and I wanted to pop in for dinner. I’ll have a review after I’ve paid a couple…
Last night I got to the St Anne Ukrainian Catholic Church fall supper. This is my first fall supper of the year. St Anne has a connection with one of my last year’s visits. St Anne shares pastoral leadership with St Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church. Yesterday, was quite a full day. If started with St.…
While reading my way through Eating Promiscuosly and Clean Meat, I came across the book Seeds of Science, while scanning the New and Noted section at the Winnipeg Public Library. Seeds of Science: Why we got it so wrong on GMOs, is a book by Mark Lynas, a one time anti-GM food activist who, after investigating the views of the scientific community…
Hong Hing restaurant on Ellice Avenue, is a Chinese restaurant of the type I was familiar with growing up. Lots of dishes featuring chop suey and chow mein. However, there are a few Szechuan dishes available on the menu, and even an eight item Dim Sum list. It seems as I look around that the…
This place closed in the last year or so. There was an accident that damaged the building I haven’t heard anything about the possibility of the restaurant re-opening, and that’s kind of sad. Sonya’s is the kind of old-fashioned comfort food restaurant that is slowly disappearing from the landscape. I’ve recently been reading Starting from Scratch, by Patty…
