Cockney Butchers, Tuscan Nonas, & The Canadian Wilderness: Inspirations for a Sunday Pasta Dinner

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Cockney Butchers, Tuscan Nonas, & The Canadian Wilderness: Inspirations for a Sunday Pasta Dinner

Pasta tastes like home. Humble, honest and unable to be rushed, hand rolled pasta is a labour of love meant to bring people together around the table for conversation to pass the time. Few can deny the pleasures of the meticulously formed shapes that are subtly resistant to chewing, glistening in an emulsion of butter and cheese, or a hearty, slowly simmered Ragu.

READ TIME 11 MIN 30 SEC

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Organic Farms, Stolen Backpacks & Christmas Letdown: An aromatic journey to the perfect Thai curry

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Organic Farms, Stolen Backpacks & Christmas Letdown: An aromatic journey to the perfect Thai curry

The year was 2011, and thanks a set of extraordinarily unpredictable and fortunate life events, I’d spent the best summer of my life living in Paris, France. For reasons I can’t remember today, I decided to take the wad of over 7000 euros I’d saved from working a cash-in-hand job in Paris’ 6th arrondissement and embark on a solo backpacking trip through Southeast Asia by myself for month and a half. Had you asked me months before to locate Vietnam on the map I would have been comically wrong, but in my 24th trip around the sun I never claimed to have it all together…

READ TIME: 9 MIN 27 SEC

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