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A Room of My Own ~ My Canadian Voice

June 7, 2014 by Dale Leave a Comment

Any discussion of a writer’s voice will surely evoke allusions to Virginia Woolf’s emancipating book, A Room of One’s Own. Writing with her own strong voice, she breaks barriers and all but seizes a voice that she proclaims her own … and in the process she creates an anthem for women writers the world over….

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Eats, Writes Tagged With: A Room of One's Own, BC, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, Canadian voice, Cooking, food, food experiences, home, identity, Ontario, Ottawa, privilege, Virginia Woolf, voice, writing

Herbs — A Gateway to Freedom and Abundance

May 7, 2014 by Dale 3 Comments

As a child, I hated the family garden. It represented work. It represented indentured servitude. It represented poverty. There isn’t more evidence in my life of the difference perspective can make. Growing into a man, my perspective changed when my attitude changed — when I stopped working a garden for others and started working it…

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Eats, Writes Tagged With: Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, childhood memories, chives, Cooking, Family, food, food experiences, garden, gardening, herbs, home, Locavore, memories, window box

All Things Home ~ All Things Ottawa

March 7, 2014 by Dale 5 Comments

We are so much defined by place that we define the place we live by naming it … home. And if “home” is only where you’re born, then I guess I offer this observation as person who has been homeless more years than at home. The irony is that in having lived so many places,…

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Eats, Food, General, Writes Tagged With: belonging, Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, Cooking, cranberry, Cross-Country Skiing, food, food experiences, Gatineau Hills, home, identity, Maple, Muskoka Lakes Winery, Ottawa, place, poutine, Recipe, Skiing, St-Albert Cheese, Transformation, Winter

My Canadian Love Affair

February 7, 2014 by Dale 6 Comments

Food is an extension of my heart. It is not only a part of my physical being, it is how I celebrate and express love. I’ve been in love with food for a very long time. And, for almost as long, I’ve been an incurable romantic. It seems fitting, then, that my personal passion for…

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Eats, Food, General, Writes Tagged With: Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, chicken, Cooking, first date, food, food experiences, heart, Love, love affair, passion, pomegranate, pomegranate and vodka glaze, Recipe, Romance, tranformation, Valentine's

Inspired by Tradition but Proudly Ourself: A Canadian Resolution

January 7, 2014 by Dale 12 Comments

I love problems … love finding solutions to impossible predicaments. Challenges beget curiosity and creativity and they fill me with resolve…. Each New Year doesn’t in-and-of-itself present a problems to me: it provides a 365¼ day tableau on which to create life. And, other than when I’m actually writing, there is nothing I love doing…

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Eats, Writes Tagged With: Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, Canadian whisky, Cooking, Eggnog, food, food experiences, food identity, Forty Creek Whisky, Grimsby, identity, John Hall, Ontario, Ottawa, Rye whisky, Sherry barrel, traditions, whisky, White Oak

An Untraditional Canadian Christmas: Vegetarian Tourtière

December 8, 2013 by Dale 3 Comments

I believe in Christmas and I believe in the power of tradition. For me, the power of Christmas, and the true spirit of it, is beautifully wrapped up in O. Henry’s masterful short-story “The Gift of Magi.” In this story first published more than a century ago, O. Henry beautifully shows the power of giving…

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Eats, Writes Tagged With: Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, Christmas, Christmas traditions, Cooking, Family, food, food experiences, French Canadian, Gift of the Magi, home, meat, meat pie, O Henry, Ottawa, Quebec, sacrifice, tourtiere, traditions, vegetarian

Harvesting an Identity

November 7, 2013 by Dale 6 Comments

Long has the harvest been an important part of my life and long has it been associated with fall, bountiful cornucopias of food, and Thanksgiving. Growing up in the Okanagan Valley, the fall harvest meant picking the last of the fruit and stripping our garden of its remaining plenty before tilling the vegetation back into…

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Eats, Nature, Shoots, Writes Tagged With: apples, BC, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, canning, childhood memories, China, Cooking, fall, Family, food, food experiences, harvest, home, identity, Jelly, Maple, memories, Okanagan, Ontario, Ottawa, Thanksgiving

Maple-Apple Jelly

October 11, 2013 by Dale 9 Comments

At its most fundamental level, cooking is pure chemistry and physics. At its most profound, it is art, tradition, culture, identity and love. Nothing arguably combines both as purely as making preserves. Thus when I took up the most recent challenge in The Canadian Food Experience Project chose to make it personal, I found myself with the challenge…

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Dessert, Eats, Gluten-Free, Preserves, Recipes, Side Dish, Vegetarian Tagged With: apple, apples, BC, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, canning, Cooking, fall, food, food experiences, Gluten-Free, home, Jelly, lemon juice, Maple, Maple Syrup, Okanagan, Ottawa, pectin, preserves, Quebec, Recipe, vegetarian

Preserving: Our Canadian Tradition

October 8, 2013 by Dale 7 Comments

I grew up among trees. Indeed, trees define a huge part of our national identity – and our food – in this country. Speak to any foreigner about their image of Canada and it will almost universally be of “wilderness” and the wide expanse of mountains, water, open spaces, and trees. Growing up, everywhere I…

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Eats, Writes Tagged With: apple, apples, BC, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, cherished, childhood memories, Cooking, Family, food, food experiences, home, identity, Jelly, Maple, Maple Syrup, nourishment, Okanagan, Ottawa, Quebec, tree

My Cherished Canadian Recipe … My Grandma’s Soup

September 7, 2013 by Dale 14 Comments

My Grandma nourished me. When she passed away seven years ago, she left a hole in my world; and much like the hole left in Haida Gwaii’s Cathedral Forest when its giant Golden Spruce was tragically removed, a space nonetheless remains even while on its verges new growth finds space. I have survived, even thrived,…

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30 Poems in 30 Days – Global Poetry Writing Month (2022)

  • The Story of a Dog

    The Story of a Dog
  • A Love Song

    A Love Song
  • Chosen

    Chosen
  • Wormwood

    Wormwood
  • Bashert

    Bashert
  • Lumber Dog

    Lumber Dog
  • Aisling for the Land

    Aisling for the Land
  • Hard Boiled Boy

    Hard Boiled Boy
  • The Blasted

    The Blasted
  • Sense of Time

    Sense of Time
  • We Reflect

    We Reflect
  • A Family Grown

    A Family Grown
  • Fly — Away

    Fly — Away
  • Curtains

    Curtains
  • A Question Heard

    A Question Heard
  • The Storm

    The Storm
  • A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom

    A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom
  • Bun in the Oven

    Bun in the Oven
  • The world don’t owe you nothing

    The world don’t owe you nothing
  • the syrphid

    the syrphid
  • Osborne

    Osborne
  • Love is not a Word

    Love is not a Word
  • Meta

    Meta
  • Super-Pop

    Super-Pop
  • footprints on the sands of time

    footprints on the sands of time
  • Spring Grows

    Spring Grows
  • Neptune’s Recline

    Neptune’s Recline
  • Red Light, Green Light, Stop

    Red Light, Green Light, Stop
  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights
  • Afterwinter

    Afterwinter
  • The Story of a Dog

    The Story of a Dog
  • A Love Song

    A Love Song
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