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CSL Interviews | Paul Hughes of Calgary Food Policy Council
Chair of the Calgary Food Policy Council (CFPC) , Paul Hughes spoke to CSL about advocacy, the Calgary food system and why the CFPC got started. CSL: What is a Food Policy Council? Hughes: Food Policy Councils (FPCs) are comprised of individuals from all aspects of a local food system. They are often officially sanctioned…
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Justin Leboe | Risk Taker
Growing up in Vancouver, food was an important part of the Leboe household, whether picking chanterelles in winter on Vancouver Island, collecting beach oysters or crabbing with cousins. For ten years, the chef worked in some of the top kitchens in North America (The French Laundry, Daniel, Jean-Georges). Sensing that the best way to advance his…
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Travelling Notes | 5 Great Reasons to Visit Las Vegas
There has never been a better time to visit Sin City. Encore Steve Wynn’s newest hotel, Encore, upped the ante on glamour. The 2034 room hotel epitomizes 21st century cool with all the amenities you could possibly ask for including golf, spa, shopping, bars, clubs and restaurants. www.encorelasvegas.com Bouchon A Lyonnaise…
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Postcards | Costa Rica
Read More from Costa Rica in the Winter 2007/08 issue of City Style and Living Magazine
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Passport | Who wouldn’t love a face like this?
The strange medieval beast (the gargoyle pictured at left) imaginatively recarved by the masons working on Holy Trinity Church, in Stratford-upon- Avon, England holds an important secret. It sits atop the church where William Shakespeare, the great dramatist and playwright, was baptized, worshiped and was buried. It was in this church where he first…
