There is a single accredited cooking school in Calgary, and it's located at SAIT. To prepare themselves for the rigors of running a restaurant, the students operate one on campus, serving a popular lunch buffet and a prix-fixe five course dinner. Over the years...
We've barely emerged from a very deep freeze here in Calgary, and the sharp wind that ushered in our Chinook barely feels like an improvement. It's + 2 C outside, but feels much colder, and frankly I'd take -20 with no wind any day. It's a cold cold wind. Matters...
Catching the kitty that lived on my porch through -30 C (-22F) temperatures has kind of consumed my spare time for the last few weeks. Well, that, and my birthday on Monday, and the midterm that I wrote, and the holidays of course. 🙂 But kitty took precedence. Even...
The initial shock of the outsourcing news is largely over, and things are back on track at work. The timelines involved are not immediate, ranging from three to six months, with severance for all regular employees, which has helped to return things to normal...
In a totally bizarre twist, the company where I currently work is outsourcing our entire dept to... wait for it - the United States. The irony is not lost on me.... 🙂 but apparently it's a sound business decision as they can use economies of scale with their...
This week marked our first large snowfall of the season and the city shuddered to a grinding halt. Traffic has been increasing from bad to worse each day, and people are already swearing as they're shoveling snow for the sixth time. The temperature plunged to a...
I was all prepared not to like District. The reason for this was threefold – one – a vaguely negative review by one of my favorite food blogs, the fact that I didn’t really like their samples at the Rocky Mountain Food and Wine Festival (not once, but twice!),...
Growing up I barely appreciated soup. Sometimes we had it for supper, and I always felt like it was a lesser meal than a solid entree. Very much a meat-and-potato child at heart, I much preferred a 'real meal' to soup, and even my mother would never serve salad as...
I is so busy at work it's not funny. It's our month-end, and year-end and account reconciliation rolled into one, never mind this math course I'm taking and life just sucks for free time right now. Of course I'm pretty new at this job, and don't really know what I'm...