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• Lemony Broccoli Soup

  

  I made a delicious cream soup last night. Let's see if I remember how it goes.OK. Here's what you need:1 tb butter1 tb olive oil3 cloves garlic ¼ bermuda onion... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2012 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Discover Paris of the Past with Help from Hotels Paris Rive Gauche

  

  The credit for writing this intriguing post does not go to me. In October 2010 I stayed with the Hotels Paris Rive Gauche group at the Hotel du Pantheon. This... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL, VACATION

• Sunday in the Olympic Park with Neville

  

  Neville Gabie, artist in residence at London's Olympic Park has paid tribute to the construction workers at the 2012 Games site by interpreting French... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• My Casual-Hip 'Hood

  

  Although this originally ran in the New York Times in October, I just found it. My hip 'hood is thrumming again, and apparently makes for one of Toronto's most... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 TRAVEL

• Every Kitchen Needs One

  

  And I'll take two. Not in my wildest dreams unfortunately. But any of these posters would trump the somber Schiele reproduction we bought for our kitchen. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• The Elephant and the Dove - Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Works at the AGO

  

  In the autumn of 2012 the Art Gallery of Ontario will exhibit works by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her on again, off again husband Diego Rivera. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Swiss Christmas

  

  The wide variety of Christmas customs throughout Swiss villages reflects centuries of winter isolation that townsfolk endured when the heavy snow eliminated... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• The Clever Pup's Christmas Gift Ideas - Humanitarian Gifts

  

  Doing your part to make the world a better place is just a click away. Here are some charitable Christmas present suggestions. We sponsor a little boy called... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• The Clever Pup's Christmas Gift Ideas - Guy Stuff.

  

  I bought a varnished hand like the one above, when I was in Paris. It's never used for it's intended purpose as a sketching aid, but we have lots of fun with it... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• The Clever Pup's Christmas Gift Ideas - Kitcheny Things.

  

  You've really got to plan. In this day and age where you can find something as esoteric as pool cue chalk by clicking on Google Maps, there's little excuse for... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• "Get Back to the Presents"

  

  "Get back to the Presents." "There were the Useful Presents: engulfing mufflers of the old coach days, and mittens made for giant sloths; zebra scarfs of a... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Hey, I Could Do That Or Lemieux Breaks Record for Canadian Art

  

  1910 Remembered (1962) depicts artist Jean Paul Lemieux as a child, standing between his parents who were soon to separate. Looking out from the canvas between... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Finders Keepers - A Winslow Homer on the Rubbish Tip

  

  This is such an interesting story. I hope I can do it justice. I originally saw it on BBC's "Fake or Fortune". As a genealogy and art history buff, some of the... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Revolution in the Air?

  

  I've been a lefty all my life; I believe in democracy and the social safety net. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is how I live. But I don't... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Clotilde's Adventures in Canada

  

  Yesterday, November 12, I had the pleasure of meeting Clotilde Dusoulier, writer of the Chocolate Zucchini blog while she was here in Toronto. Usually based i... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• French Soldiers of the Great War

  

  I bought these compelling photos at an auction about ten years ago as part of the "contents of a drawer". I return to them again and again. I've found very... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• John McCrae: In Flanders Fields

  

  John McCrae, a Canadian soldier, doctor and a poet is best remembered for his poem, "In Flanders Fields". Born in Guelph, Ontario in 1872, he was educated at... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2011 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Remembering Toronto's Fallen from World War II

  

  Patrick Cain painstakingly mapped the homes listed as the next of kin addresses for 3,224 Toronto residents killed in World War II and marked each with a poppy. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2011 CULTURE

• Work - I Could Watch It All Day Long

  

  And so could essayist Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle promoted the nobleness of work in his 1843 essay Past and Present. Ever the critic, Carlyle can be seen sneering i... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Ohh! Rococo!

  

  Even the cherubs look dismayed.Baron de St. Julien asked Fragonard to depict him in the foreground of his 1766 painting, where he could "see the legs of this... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, HISTORY