By Dillon Collins The late great legendary chef and author Anthony Bourdain once said “Food is everything we are.” A realist, Anthony also was quoted as saying, “If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.” If ever two things could be simultaneously true. Just ask celebrated local chef and…
By Dillon Collins You could call Allan Hawco the Swiss Army Man of Newfoundland television. Actor, writer, producer and show-runner, the b’y behind Jake Doyle (Republic of Doyle, 2010-14), Douglas Brown (Frontier, 2016-18), David Slaney (Caught, 2018) and Gale Favreau (Moonshine, 2021-23) is back in his wheelhouse with the all-new police procedural television drama Saint-Pierre,…
By Andrea Maunder The first mention of “shortcakes” is in an English cookbook from 1588, but we can thank our neighbours in the northeast US, for that glorious combination of sweet strawberries, fluffy whipped cream and tender biscuits we now know as Strawberry Shortcakes. The dessert became popular in the early 1900s as a way…
By Kim Ploughman My father was there for my seventh birthday, but the next day he was gone. Gone as in, “Gone to the ice.” I don’t remember him leaving that early spring morning on April 8th, 1967. What ensued in the weeks ahead, however, forever snagged itself in my childhood memory net. That day,…
