By Mike Hawkins www.foodfunk.ca Today is the day we start dreaming. Last night, it snowed.  It snowed and snowed and then the temperature plunged.  The thermometer isn’t going to get above minus nine Celsius today. Whammo, it’s winter. So we dream.  We dream of warmer air, of sunny heat, of...

Well, I’m sick as a damn dog.   Runny nose, aches, pains, and coughing up one-pound blocks of lung butter. I’ve got a full blown cold.   I picked it up in Ontario, by the way.  A nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to inhale there. Thankfully, I have the cure for the common cold. ...

By Mike Hawkins Last week a sommelier friend of mine gave me five bottles of Shiraz wine with the instructions that because each of them had already been opened and sampled, I was to consume them within three or four days. Otay.  Mishun accomblished…*hiccup*. Do you see stars? Anyway, I found...

Atlantic Canada is not really known for its food.  Some people coming to the region for a visit tend to pack a lunch if they’ve been here before. We have to admit we do some weird stuff here.  Cinnamon, and I think allspice, are prominent spices in the tomato sauce that goes onto many...

What a great time at Pepper’s Pub last night.  This was taken as I finally started to wind down after a four-hour marathon of hard groove in front of a packed house.   Now, I’m going to get back to cooking.  Share...