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The newly formatted Discovery Magazine is out now. The Winter/Spring issue is a smaller format than before but it remains a good read. There’s a piece on the Power of Reinvention and they have included my story as an example of how you can change …
We spent the weekend at Bid Huisie in Prince Albert. It is one of the most charming towns I have visited. I try to be a locavore whenever possible and buy things to cook that are made or grown within the area that I’m eating them. …
JP cooks salmon and broccoli better than most restaurants. He sears it both sides in a very hot pan with a bit of butter and olive oil and then cooks it skin-side down for four minutes with a lid on, seasoned with lashings of Ina …
If we were honest about how we feel about fat people would that make it easier or more difficult for people to lose weight? I can’t help but think that if people viewed the obese in the same way as they do alcoholics or smokers …
Being fat is a self-inflicted handicap. But, unlike other handicaps which I imagine occur mostly suddenly, those of us who were or are fat know that the weight piles on gradually and we manage to lie to ourselves about our condition for so long that, …
No one likes the taste of pickled herring or whisky the first time as they are known to be acquired tastes. In thinking about how it has been possible that I am able to enjoy foods now that I didn’t before, I find that the …