I know I’ve been on a bit of a potato chip thing lately, so please forgive me. I just happen to really like chips, and the more curious the flavour the better. Hardbite chips, a product of Maple Ridge, B.C., […]
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Review: Molson M
I know, I know. Beer marketers have never been known to over-sell their products, concocting crazy ad copy that hypes up the beer experience while glossing over the actual taste of their product. They’d never stoop to such a level. […]
Review: Genghis Grill Green Onion Cakes
I couldn’t tell you how it happened, nor why it remains this way, but green onion cakes are synonymous with Edmonton’s festival season. For the uninitiated, green onion cakes are round, pancake-like discs of flour, water, chopped green onions, salt, […]
Review: Cannery Brewing Blackberry Porter
It’s hard to win with fruit beers. Some are sweet and sticky, verging on a cooler or cider. The best ones in this category are bursing with ripe fruit with a trace of malt and hops; the worst are the […]
Review: Covered Bridge Sweet Potato Cinnamon and Brown Sugar chips
A little bit like Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, and a little bit like mini donuts doused in cinnamon-sugar, you’ve never tasted chips like these before. After my positive experience with Covered Bridge Smokin’ Sweet BBQ chips, I wanted to try […]
Review: Covered Bridge Smokin’ Sweet BBQ chips
The Look: The packaging looks like it was designed by a creatively challenged child with a felt marker and a below-average aptitude for shading. Possible explanations? 1. The common (and much sought-after) crappy-looking-restaurant-with-amazing-food fake-out trick. 2. The terrible packaging design […]
Review: Kerstin’s Lemon Dream Chocophilia bar
White chocolate is a polarizing foodstuff. Some call it a pretender to the chocolate name, something quite unlike either milk or dark chocolate and thus undeserving of being lumped in with “real” chocolate. Others, me included, see it as a […]
Company’s Coming, newspapers, and the byline rush
Given enough time, deadlines and stories churned out, plenty of writers turn cynical about what they do. The repetition of shuffling words from brain to screen by way of fingers, day after day, is a tedious process far less romantic […]