Back in 1996, a friend of mine took my future wife and I to an Ethiopian restaurant in Toronto.  I didn’t have a clue what to expect be we fumbled through it with the guidance of our more Ethiopian-experienced friend. We ordered our dishes and a couple of drinks, then minutes later, out...

Years before Cherish, before Ladies Night, long before Celebration and long before Get Down On It, Kool and the Gang were actually really cool.  This group of super talented and funky musicians led by bassist Ronald “Kool” Bell, put together some amazing funk spanning from their...

Oh man, why couldn’t this be what we know as 80s music?  This 1981 somewhat rare release by Conquest just oozes funk and is a killer dance tune.  The early 80s were great because disco had recently died (R.I.P.) and music suddenly had to be a lot more thoughtful, but it was before the...

It’s mid winter, an early morning and pretty grey outside.   Times like this, I’ll turn to groovy jazz funk to get my head noddin’ first thing in the morning.   Here’s one to get your day going, Forty Days by Billy Brooks.  Sampled to fame by A Tribe Called Quest about...

This is a little feature I’ve been doing on my Facebook account for a few weeks and thought it would be great to base it here instead. I got into funk about the same time I got into food back in the early 90s and the two passions are part of my every day. Back in my early 20s I’d...

Tiny pizza!  This was actually a slice from a regular slice.  I always cut Alexandra’s pizza in three pieces, leaving two strips and a small triangle, and this was the small triangle.  Cute! Fresh green chilies and a pack of spicy noodle soup from the brand new Woori Mart, a Korean food...

A few years ago on a very late night drive back from Moncton, my wife and I stopped into the Irving Big Stop Restaurant at Salisbury for a late night bite, and who knew it would be such a memorable stop. Yes, I have to admit it, it was a meal at the Big Stop that would really ignite my...