Tasting Notes This dish serves two – the taste of the garden awaits you, crunchy radishes, fresh cucumbers, all paired with the flavours of fresh tomatoes, all slightly spicy. The grilled bread adding extra crunch. A cold, sublime soup, that’s healthy and only takes three key ingredients, ready within minutes. What You Need One bottle…

In the jazz world Dizzy Gillespie is an icon. He revolutionized it, infusing it with bebop – a type of jazz from the 1940s, notable for its complex harmony and rhythms, adding Afro-Cuban rhythms into the mix. His pouchy cheeks and horn were his trademarks. His performance skills were legendary, often engaging in clown-like antics…

DELICIOUS, LIGHT, FLUFFY, 7 BRITISH SCONES Well I did it – made my first-ever scones.And I have been cooking for more than 40 years.Baking is not my forte.So I challenged myself by making scones – they turned out to be delicious.They are super easy. Tasting NotesThese scones are fluffy and light, totally delicious. They are…

Italian Buffalo mozzarella truly is a great treat. But it has to come from Italy otherwise you’re missing out. It’s great on salads, pizza or just by itself with a drizzle of great olive oil over it and slice of great bread. Italian farmers love these special buffaloes. And they treat them in special ways.…

This is fabulous comfort food and it will serve two and there will be enough left overs for two for either lunch or dinner. Also we make ours a few days ahead of time, allowing all the flavours to mingle. What You Need 2 pounds of short ribs. 1 bottle of good red wine. 1/2…

Great artists always try new approaches, use new techniques, use new materials, seek new venues of where to show their art. Jason deCaires Taylor does all of that. He is a sculptor, environmentalist, underwater photographer. But he is more than that. He presents his sculptures under water. For more than 15 years for Taylor the…

Tom Petty a major part of California’s music scene – embodying California cool, hip, irreverent, in your face, naughty but nice, happening, of the 70’s. He formed the band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in the mid-1970s. Wrote many of its best-known, best selling, records. His voice distinctive, grainy, with a Florida drawl. Never much…

It wasn’t until 2015 that scientists discovered the white-spotted pufferfish in the ocean off one of the islands of Japan. They also discovered something else – this pufferfish is an artist working around the clock to complete a masterpiece all in the name of love.

His nickname – Man in Black. Johnny Cash’s trademark – an all-black stage wardrobe. A songwriter, musician, singer, and actor, Cash was humble, performed at many free prison concerts – his songs with themes of redemption, sorrow and melancholy, often a reflection of his own life. His music embraced various musical genres – country, rock,…

Peter Aspell, a gentle giant, tall and gaunt, often in attendance at Vancouver art show openings along with his wife, Joy, also a painter. It was at one of art openings that I met him. In fact, it was an opening of his own show. But I had no idea who he was and what…