“Whatever highly honorable motives they may have—to save money or to enjoy themselves, for example—the greatest motivation for homebrewers is the opportunity to experiment and to produce beer in all the glorious varieties in which it manifests itself.” -Michael Jackson (this MJ, not the other) in the preface to The Joy of Homebrewing by Charlie Papazian […]
¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo! On this May 5th I find myself reminiscing a bit… I spent almost three years of my life living in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. While living there my absolute favorite food was pupusas. They’re not hard to love, considering they are pretty much like the corn tortilla version of pizza (which I am rather […]
Where We Began is not Really Where We Began The classic (North) American meal: a delicious, mouth-watering plate with a big piece of meat, preferably cooked on the grill, a potato or hunk of bread or ear of corn, and some small side of vegetables, like carrots or something else that most people like. Photo […]
This blog began a bit less than a year ago and in that time it has ebbed and flowed, much like the seasons around me. I began blogging shortly after moving to Kitchener, Ontario with my wife and two young boys. Prior to our move I was working full time as a teacher in Atlanta, […]
One of our favourite wedding gifts was the classic cookbook Joy of Cooking. We still say that if we had to own just one cookbook this would be it. These days we use other cookbooks more often but still return to the Joy from time to time, and this is a meal that came straight from […]