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1. Canada Wins Big in Locarno

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   Not too long ago, I told you about the Canadian films premiering at the Locarno Film Festival held August 8 to August 14 in Switzerland. I've got some great news to pass on. Selected in the International ...

2. Four Days in Montreal

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   I just came back from a fabulous four days in Montreal. Having been there a number of times over the years, it has still been a good 10 or more years since my last visit. I'm definitely not going to let ...

3. Beer Primer

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   Beer is as distinctive as wine. To beer lovers, of course, that's not exactly news. But, if you're not already an aficionado, trying to decide what beer to buy among the multitudes lining liquor store ...

4. Canadian Films on the International Stage

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   Telefilm Canada has announced that five Canadian directors will premiere at the 63rd edition of the Locarno Film Festival, held August 4 to August 14, 2010 in Locarno located on the Italian-Swiss border. ...

5. Summer Drinks and Reads

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   Looking for a creative and original wine and beer pairing this summer? Why not pair up a great book with a great drink? Relax outside by the pool or under a big shade tree all summer and catch up on the ...

6. Eat Chocolate!

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   Here's just one more example why we should all think of cocoa as a necessary food group. As if we needed a reason … Recent research suggests cocoa flavanols (the antioxidants in cocoa) could be an important ...

7. Sideways with Soup

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   I loved Sideways. Can you recommend any other wine-themed movies? Ah Sideways, a tasty piece of celluloid that only gets better with age. But that Academy Award winning flick (it won for Best Adapted ...

8. What Your Wine Really Says About You

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   Why is it that being caught with a glass of White Zinfandel is like being caught staring at a computer screen full of topless car-wash girls holding dipsticks? Why? Because wine is unequivocally and ...

9. New in Tidings - July/August

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   What makes us Canadian? This July/August issue is always one of the toughest to put together. The staff ponders while trying to put their finger on what we can define as Canadian. The simpler things ...

10. Wayne (Stehben’s) World

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    Not withstanding that it gave rise to “critter” wines and single-handedly made the colour yellow the bane of serious oeno-geeks worldwide, Australia can, and does, make some serious wines. Unfortunately, ...

11. Ontario Chardonnays Shine on Trafalgar Square

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    Top U.K. wine critics embrace Ontario Chardonnays On May 17th, Canada House - prestigiously located on Trafalgar Square in London England - hosted a tasting of Cool Climate Chardonnays from Ontario. ...

12. Starbucks and LEED Unite

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    Starbucks opens its first LEED registered store in Canada. This is very cool news. If you haven't heard of LEED, it's an acronym for Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design. It's an internationally ...

13. Super Sensory Experience at Reif

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    What an amazing experience I had Saturday evening enjoying a delicious dinner, al fresco, in the Wine Sensory Garden at Reif Estate Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake.  It was an event that channeled all of ...

14. Canadians Love Argentina

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    And not just the country; we're quite partial to the wine as well. If you're not familiar with the name Zuccardi, it's the name of the winery that produces some very popular wines. It's said that it's ...

15. Sooke Harbour House Wins Awards

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    Over the years, Tidings staff has had the pleasure of interviewing Sooke Harbour House chefs and dining in the Vancouver-based world-renowned restaurant. In 2007, columnist Joanne Will visited Sooke and ...

16. 2010 Winnipeg SummerFest

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    I know August 19th seems a long way away, but I wanted to give you a "heads up" because tickets for the first annual 2010 Winnipeg Summerfest are on sale now. If you live in the area or are planning a ...

17. Green Dating Service

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    I came across this great new website just after it launched last week. It's called Greenbeltfresh.ca. Created by The Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation, it's an online database of Greenbelt farm products ...

18. Fundraiser for Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada

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    May marked another successful fundraiser for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada thanks to M&M Meat Shops. Staff and volunteers across Canada sell hamburgers, hotdogs and ice cream bars, and every ...

19. We Know Jack

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    Not much has changed at the Jack Daniel Distillery since it was registered by the U.S. government in 1866. It’s venerable Old No.7 Tennessee Whiskey remains a cultural icon and, with the exception of a ...

20. Mother's Day Treat!

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    On Friday night, I cracked open a bottle of Corte Giara Ripasso Valpolicella 2006. The term ripasso indicates that the wine was put through a second fermentation on the skins of the dried fruit. I served ...

21. Randall Grahm Wins Award

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    You read it here first, folks! On Monday May 3, 2010, the James Beard Foundation presented its annual James Beard Foundation Awards at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Well-known celebrity chefs, ...

22. Innovation on the Grocery Shelf

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    You're not supposed to go grocery shopping when you're hungry. Yet grocery consumers are exactly that - hungry for products that stand out from the crowd, says Michelle Scott of the Canadian Council of ...

23. Reno Fever

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    Eight months of home renovations are finally over! We re-did the floors, the basement, the laundry room, painted the house …. We even spent an entire month sleeping on a mattress in the living room. We ...

24. 21 Wines You Must Taste

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    We’ve all met them. They talk loudly at dinner parties, swan about with inflated chests wearing flashy designer clothes and drive red Porches or some other symbol of early-, mid- or late-life crises. They ...

25. Canada's Top Chefs Talk of Wine

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    They’re legends in their own right, you’ve seen them on TV, they forge new culinary ground and they’re masters of their own edible domain. So how do these icons of culinary celebrity feel about wine? “I ...

26. 10 Things To Do on the Long Weekend

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    Victoria Day is a Canada-wide statutory holiday that always falls on the last Monday in May on or before the 24th. This year, the date's bang on. But, there have been years where the holiday has occurred ...

27. The Wines Are All Reif

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    Every now and again Mother Nature hands winegrowers an almost perfect hand. It doesn’t happen often but when it does – especially in a temperamental climate like that of Niagara, Ontario – savvy oenologists ...

28. The Rice Man Cometh

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    Toronto’s Grano Ristorante played host to Master Chef Gabriele Ferron of Verona, Italy’s Riseria Ferron. Tidings readers might have already made Ferron’s acquaintance in the July/August 2009 issue. He ...

29. Engineered Meat on a Plate

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    I received a press release recently regarding an organization called Genome Alberta that's launched a competition for bovine and swine genomics research. For those of you who may not be too familiar with ...

30. Are You A Reality Show Junkie?

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    There's a new reality show on W Network called The Cupcake Girls. It features two best friends who started a cupcake/cake shop a few years' back in Vancouver. Based on the first episode, this reality show ...

31. New In Tidings - May/June 2010

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          With the season of Spring well established and Summer on its way, Tidings encourages you to get out and live it up. Grow a herb garden, try new wines or travel to destinations with interesting ...

32. Wine Tasting Club -- Auxerrois

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    This grape is a tough one to crack. Not actually unknown, Auxerrois pops up in unexpected places, like in bottles of Pinot Blanc where it adds depth and body, It's certainly not one of the more well-known ...

33. Canadians Keep Their Resolutions!

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    Canadians are steering clear of jumping off the bandwagon in 2010 when it comes to keeping their New Year's resolutions. A new Ipsos Reid poll, conducted on behalf of Metro, found that the majority of ...

34. Experience a World of Wine and Spirits

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    This weekend marks the 9th Montreal Wine and Spirits Show at the Palais des congrès de Montréal running from March 25th until March 28th. If you need a reason to escape your daily routine, here it is. ...

35. Full Moon Fever

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    Pimentón Spanish & Mediterranean Fine Foods was the venue on Monday, March 22 for the launch of the newest super-premium Spanish extra virgin olive oil. Full Moon is the latest offering from Pago Baldios ...

36. Poetry in the Glass

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    ... done a great disservice to people like me: it has rendered wine books obsolete. Consumers all over the world now have immediate access to the same wine reviews and vintage reports with a few keystrokes. ...

37. Great Year for Maple Syrup

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    After four difficult springs, the 2009 maple syrup season will go down as a historic season, with Quebec maple syrup production hitting 109.4 million pounds. Producers have been thrilled with the news, ...

38. New In Tidings - April

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    What's new in Tidings' April issue? How about a great new contest! Subscribe to Tidings Magazine for a chance to win a super prize! In this issue, Tod Stewart lets you in on a few secrets of the wine ...

39. Top Menu Trends

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    The first-ever Canadian Chef Survey has revealed some very interesting menu trends for 2010. Local, sustainable and organic food choices top the list of what's hot in Canada's restaurant kitchens. The ...

40. Tidbits - Tea and Crumpets

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    Tea and Crumpets by Margaret M. Johnson (Chronicle Books) This one's for all you anglophiles out there who crave afternoon tea and its accompanying requisites, like tea sandwiches, scones, cookies and, ...

41. Perfect Port

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    Without a doubt, Vintage Port is the blue chip of fortified wines. It is only when Mother Nature blesses the Douro valley with great growing conditions, which happens, on average, only three vintages per ...

42. Secret Weapon

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    What’s the world’s most undervalued wine? This tidbit can change your life. Knowing its name will save you money so inadvertently make you richer. Pouring it for family and friends will dazzle them, ...

43. Noir in the Dark

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    Educating yourself about wine has many advantages. For instance, it gives you one more reason to look down upon Australians. Also, learned discourse about wine is an excellent way to bore your relatives. ...

44. The Rewards of Patience

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    When I received the invitation to attend a Penfolds Re-corking Clinic in San Francisco hosted by Chief Winemaker Peter Gago, my first thought was, “cool, I get to taste a bunch of old vintages of Grange ...

45. Tidbits - My New Orleans - The Cookbook

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    My New Orleans - The Cookbook by chef John Besh is an ode to New Orleans. Besh recounts the city's pre-Katrina life, and juxtaposes them against the destruction and decimation that ensued because of Katrina. ...

46. Striking Oil in Niagara

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    Forget yoga class — driving through Niagara is the kind of Zen experience that both relaxes and energizes. A recent visit found my husband and I exploring the many restaurants, shops and wineries we happened ...

47. Worth the Wait

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    I am usually vague and non-committal when posed the often asked, all-too-general question, “How long can wine age?” The all-too-general answer, “it depends.” But with the proliferation of “trunk-aging” ...

48. Nova Scotia Firsts

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    Winter 2008-2009 produced the most severe vineyard conditions experienced in many years. At one point, in the Gaspereau Valley, the temperature plummeted to -26˚C. Several tender varieties took a major ...

49. Cool Icewines

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    I still remember it as if it was yesterday. The date was September 16th, 1996. The event was my first day on the job at a Niagara-on-the Lake winery. Wet behind the ears, and eager to learn all things ...

50. Tidbits - Good Eats, The Early Years

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    Good Eats - The Early Years by Alton Brown (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) This cookbook, based on Good Eats (Alton Brown's Food Network show) is really fun. Colourful, lots of great photos, it's full of interesting ...