Meet the Creator of Alberta Food Tours In the years that I’ve known Alberta Food Tours creator Karen Anderson I have never seen her without a smile on her face and love pouring from her heart. It sounds corny, I know, but bear with me because if you get to…
The Italian Centre Shop Calgary is a 13,000 square foot foodie heaven and it is within a 5 minute drive from my house. I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard this friendly Edmonton family had decided to expand their Italian/European market into Calgary, but here we are about a year…
I grew up very near the border of a Canadian National Park. In the summers we’d have so much more traffic wandering through our little farming community, kicking up dust and stopping to ask for directions when they inevitably got lost on the country roads. Everyone got really annoyed with…
I’m not a native Calgarian so I just don’t get Stampede. I don’t get how people can eat deep fried ‘anything’..(including oreos and butter) or beef on a bun for weeks on end or even pancakes and sausage for breakfast every single day of Stampede. Sure there’s got to be…
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After our lovely Big Taste meal at The Dean House we decided a walk around the neighbourhood of Inglewood was in order. One of my favourite things to do is park at one end and walk to the other, then cross the street and loop back to my car. Doing…
While doing some research for our upcoming France/Belgium trip I decided that instead of visiting some French wineries, I would much rather visit an authentic Trappist brewery. This is easier said than done. Monks are…well Monks. They like their peace, quiet and solitude and are not producing product for financial…