by PDR-Kellie | Apr 20, 2017 | Food, Health, Issues, News, Recommended, Research
I’m in the midst of a physical and mental transformation. Don’t worry: I’m not getting plastic surgery or starting a religion. Instead, I’m figuring out how to eat in order to shrink. You see, over the past couple of years I’ve gotten a...
by PDR-Kellie | Jul 17, 2014 | Food, Seasons, Short Stories, The Pas, Writing Life
All week I’ve been one day behind. It wasn’t until early this morning, unable to sleep in our hot house, that I realized it was actually Thursday, not Wednesday. It’s been a bit of an exciting week – with the arrival in the mail of the latest...
by PDR-Kellie | Feb 24, 2013 | Food, Manitoba, The Pas
Lately I’ve been a bit obsessed with food. I think it’s because of the fact that I can’t have a craving for stuffed grape leaves and go buy the canned version or pick up fresh lobster on a whim. And forget about goat’s milk, which we used to drink all the time. It’s...
by PDR-Kellie | Jul 2, 2008 | Food, Going Green
Every now and then, at dinner parties, over hors d’oeuvres and desserts, I like to raise the question: what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten? The answers are memorable. One friend snacked on groundhog in Ecuador while another sampled rotten...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 11, 2008 | Food, Going Green, Simcoe County
Never mind all the questions – where’s it grown, how’s it grown, is it grass-fed or corn? You can leave those at home for this trip to market. Entirely made up of local ecological farmers (many members of the Simcoe County Chapter of Ecological...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 3, 2008 | Food, Going Green, Issues, Ontario, Recommended, Seasons, Simcoe County, World, Writing Life
Last year I spent some time chatting with a few local farmers to produce an article about the importance and ease of eating from the fields in the county I call home. Called Think Fresh, Eat Locally, the article is in the May/June issue of Simcoe Life magazine. With...
