Tag - Food & Drink

Columnists Local News - Nick Jeffrey

Hot Rocks

Your humble narrator went on one of those romantic weekend getaways to Vancouver last weekend. It was all going well until my lady friend found out that we...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Black & Blonde

Your intrepid liquor reporter is accustomed to a great many things. The sun rises in the east every morning. Alberta has one final snowstorm every May long...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Roving Days Are Done

Your intrepid liquor reporter made a trip into Calgary last week to see perennial drinking band The Irish Rovers on their 50th anniversary tour of western...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Libations for Lent

The French call it Mardi Gras, made most famous by the bacchanal in New Orleans each February. The English call it Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday, depending on...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Full Brazilian

Your humble narrator was wracking his brain earlier this month, trying to come up with a sufficiently romantic scheme to impress my lady friend on...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Italian Beer

When boozers think of Italy, wine is generally the first thing to come to mind.  Indeed, the Italian love for wine goes all the way back to the Roman empire...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Beer and Chocolate

In the carefree days of my callow youth, your intrepid liquor reporter was perfectly content to munch on chicken wings while chugging a Molson Dry straight...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Pasties and Pastis

Your globetrotting liquor reporter vacationed in Gay Paree this year, and made sure to imbibe all the local tipples. Speaking of tipples, the topless revue at...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Fine Argentine Wine

The wines of Argentina seem to occupy more shelf space every time I visit my friendly neighbourhood booze merchant, and for good reason indeed. Argentina is...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Sultry Sangiovese

Your intrepid liquor reporter was out wooing a young lady on one of those newfangled Internet dates, and was faced with that dreaded date-night challenge of...


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