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Correr Es Mi Destino – My New Life In Canada… Under The Snow !
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Come in ! It’s only – 40ºC after all ! Correr Es Mi Destino is a tale of moving to English Canada from France, finding a job, discovering the Canadian life and enjoying it (while bitching about it from time of time...). By a world citizen and an avid
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What’s For Lunch?
Fear not: I’m not going to turn this blog into a cooking blog. I’m not that domestic. But lately, I’ve realized that every evening I was facing the same dilemma — what to take for lunch? When I was teaching, carrying lunch wit...
10 Canadian Restaurants
Harveys on Baseline and Merivale (Ottawa) Welcome to my new series, the “Canadian List of Ten”! Ten weeks, ten posts, ten lists and one hundred new Canadian things for you, from food to language, from city to weather. I must admit it, I&#...
The Sweets, The Fat And The Scale
The scale in the corner of the kitchen was taunting me, and one morning, I finally climbed on it. I was just curious, I guess. Barely awake, my eyes still out-of-focus, I blinked several times, trying to bring the scale's needle into focus. And I gas...
Things I Love/ Hate About Canadian Food
A while ago, I was invited by The Writer to talk about Canadian food I like...or hate. This was actually hard. Canada is such a multicultural country, we all tend to eat ethnic food. I could list Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese dishes I loved or hate, b...
French Cuisine
French food, from crêpes to quiches!...
French Pastries
There are "pâtisseries" and "boulangeries" everywhere, the first ones specializing in cakes and elaborate pastries, the second ones offering many kinds of bread and basic bakery products....
The Food Saga: The Drinks
The final chapter to this saga will, of course, be the drinks: after all, when it's over 30C, you do drink a lot!...
The Food Saga: The Sweets
Latinos apparently have a sweet tooth: there were panaderías (bakery) just about anywhere!...
The Food Saga: The Feast Era
Food was very good and plentiful in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. We both loved it... we feasted!...
The Food Saga: The Fish Era
In Bolivia and in Chile, even though meat was still available, we ate a lot of fish. Good: a break from the arroz con pollo!...
The Food Saga: The Chicken Era
A lot of you were curious about the food we ate when we were traveling, so I decided to make a mini-series. Today, we will see... the chicken era, aka food in Panama, Costa Rica, and to a lesser extend, Peru....
Fast Food, Junk Food (4/10)
Snacks, sodas, take-outs, pastries, desserts, appetizers, food stalls, fast food... you would never go hungry in North America provided you have some spare change in your pocket....
