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Paris in a jar

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Well, lucky, lucky me. After all that complaining about Montreal winter, I got to jet off to Paris for a week. So, really, I have zero right to complain. Not that Paris was much warmer, but all the foie gras and other decadent delights distracted my love and I from the cold. January is actually [...]

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Gettin’ figgy with it

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Montreal in winter: everything fades to gray and white, the earth sits frozen under a blanket of slush and ice, and leafless tree branches shiver in an unforgiving wind that adds the dreaded “wind chill factor,” making minus five feel like minus 18. So, as you can well imagine, fresh local produce is non-existent and [...]

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Easing in to 2010

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Woah. It’s the future already. How did that happen? I’ve been slow to get moving in this very snowy New Year. But I have some dried fig jam up my sleeve (not literally – eew) so I shall be boasting and posting as soon as that is jarred.
In the meantime, enjoy the above picture my [...]

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