Dinner table tourism
The assignments this week are coming on quick: Yesterday, I wrapped up a near-final review of Real Estate Investing for Canadians for Dummies, due out later this year. Today, I’m in the thick of my weekly real estate column for Business in Vancouver and a couple of other real estate-related stories. Then, later this week I have a magazine deadline for an Atlantic Canada history piece. And let’s not forget a host of short, snappy agricultural stories I need to get done.
This past weekend offered something of a global culinary tour. Put on hold ideas of a 100-Mile Diet, which encourages people to eat local; let’s also enjoy the discoveries we make in far-flung places which make life at home that much richer. Cups of Goodricke Castleton (2nd flush) tea, for example, brought back by friends from Darjeeling. One gets used enough to bagged teas here that we forget how soft on the palate a leaf tea can be. Neither sugar nor milk was needed to make this tea palatable.
A cheese and spirit tasting was another highlight: A selection of fortified apple and pear wines and a fruit schnapps from Winegarden Estate, picked up during my recent trip to New Brunswick, were paired with a 30-month-old Comté from France (bought at Oyama Sausage Co. on Granville Island) and a red wine-washed goat’s cheese from Carmelis in the Okanagan. The apple wine went well with the Comté while the pear was a sweet match for the goat’s cheese. The schnapps was nice, but needed a bit of water to really open up.
This past weekend offered something of a global culinary tour. Put on hold ideas of a 100-Mile Diet, which encourages people to eat local; let’s also enjoy the discoveries we make in far-flung places which make life at home that much richer. Cups of Goodricke Castleton (2nd flush) tea, for example, brought back by friends from Darjeeling. One gets used enough to bagged teas here that we forget how soft on the palate a leaf tea can be. Neither sugar nor milk was needed to make this tea palatable.
A cheese and spirit tasting was another highlight: A selection of fortified apple and pear wines and a fruit schnapps from Winegarden Estate, picked up during my recent trip to New Brunswick, were paired with a 30-month-old Comté from France (bought at Oyama Sausage Co. on Granville Island) and a red wine-washed goat’s cheese from Carmelis in the Okanagan. The apple wine went well with the Comté while the pear was a sweet match for the goat’s cheese. The schnapps was nice, but needed a bit of water to really open up.
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