Canadians living longer and healthier and should plan for a long retirement, financial planner says
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Planning a wedding can be overwhelming, but Feb. 26 wedding fair is meant to alleviate stress
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The first Saboten Japanese Tonkatsu restaurant outside of Asia opens in Aberdeen Centre on Jan. 20.
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While choosing to live, eat and exercise right should be our lifelong mantra, tangible achievements almost always involve setting goals.
READMy friend and fellow food/wine writer Kasey Wilson told me that no one should ever write a “good-bye” column, so this isn’t a good-bye.
READWe tend to conveniently forget about our health and diet, and instead, take the opportunity to over-indulge in every way possible.
READSnowy owls periodically disperse southwards, forced from the tundra by diminishing food supplies every five or six years.
READMy other Christmas standby is the gingerbread cake I make to celebrate my husband’s birthday which falls on Christmas Eve.
READThose seeking a twist on tradition can compliment afternoon tea experience with one of Fairmont YVR's signature tea-based cocktails.
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Spilling the Beans, by Julie Van Rosendaal and Sue Duncan, explains the mystery of beans.
READCongratulations to The Sweet Spot Bakery on their first anniversary.
READLifting heavy weights can be beneficial for women.
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A few weeks ago, 2 Chefs and a Table and Big Lou’s Butcher Shop took over a location at Viking Way and Bridgeport.
READYoung friend Nate asked me where to get pork jowls and pork belly. Without hesitation, I replied, “Seafair Meats.” And that’s what he did.
READThe food? Fresh. Bought from the local farms and suppliers. Unpretentious. Real food.
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The Chinese Restaurant Awards is launching the Signature Dish Dining Festival
READThanks to reader Harry Critchley, I discovered St. Jean’s Cannery & Smokehouse.
READA healthy body should be slightly alkaline—specifically 7.365 on the pH scale of 0 (extremely acidic) to 14 (extremely alkaline).
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The best way to protect yourself from falling objects in an earthquake is ducking under a desk or sturdy table until one minute after the shaking stops.
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Acorn, butternut, buttercup, Hubbard, spaghetti, kabocha, red kuri, turban, patty pan, and pumpkin – perhaps the most identifiable of all types of squash. Drier, coarser, and more strongly flavoured than most other squash, pumpkins are an autumn staple for jack-o-lanterns and pumpkin pie. There are more than 50 varieties of pumpkins ranging in size from two pounds to 100 pounds and more (the largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,140 pounds).
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