Posts tagged food
Toronto – My Kind of Town
Jan 4th
Bob Fisher invites us to spend a long weekend in his home city, Toronto…
How does a travel journalist describe the city in which he has spent most of his life?
A Latin professor of mine at university many years ago insisted that we speak certain rather arcane sentences. I remember especially:
Strepitum odi urbium; rus est semper mihi gratissium (I hate the din of cities; the country is most pleasing to me.)
There is the perennial love-hate relationship with cities and their cultures of “the rush”. As poor angst-ridden Woody Allen once said in a documentary, “I like everywhere I go; I just More >
Review – Five Fishermen
Dec 23rd
The Five Fishermen Restaurant in downtown Halifax
There was a nervous sense of anticipation in the air in downtown Halifax the night we ate at the Five Fishermen. I’m tempted to say the famous Five Fishermen, because anyone who has visited Nova Scotia’s boisterous port and capital city seems to ask, “did you eat there?”.
The anticipation, though, was not just about the promise of fine food. This was the eve of the predicted landfall of Hurricane, an interloper from the Caribbean that had raged up North America’s eastern seaboard for a week.
Yet right now the evening air was warm and still More >
