Tag - Food & Drink

Regular readers may recall that I made a trip to Italy a few months back, where I indulged in wines from ancient vineyards that have seen empires rise and...

December 25 is always a special day for me, and it’s not because of the many candy canes or gingersnaps, or because I miraculously escaped being put on Santa’s...

The festive drinking season is upon us, and I always make the most of the annual cornucopia of seasonal beers! It all begins in September, when the shelves of...

The holiday season is now upon us, which brings many social events, complete with far too much eating of sweets, and countless celebratory glasses of wine. As...

The first Thursday in November marked the 8th annual International Stout Day, a tribute to the darkest of the dark beers.  Apparently, the first Thursday of...

Never has a generation been so derided as the Millenials.  Not only are they the first generation in history to be worse off than their parents, they are...

I made my annual pilgrimage to the Okanagan Valley of BC a few weeks ago, bringing home a few cases of wine to restock the dwindling reserves in my cellar...

Always looking for a reason for a night out, I put on my finest duds to celebrate the tenth annual Gin & Tonic Day last week. Ahhh… the old G & T. ...

This is a strange month in the world of beer.  It started out with Oktoberfest, that Bavarian bacchanalia still going strong after more than two centuries, and...

Alberta has finally joined the ranks of the u-brew provinces.  A few amendments were tacked onto Bill 6 at the end of last year, one of which legalized u-brew...