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Today was going just fine….. until I dropped my laptop in the parking lot. After rushing it to ‘IT Services’, I awaited a preliminary exam, followed by a serious diagnosis. According to Tibor (the in-house technician) my hard drive had taken a hard dive and would need to be replaced. As my mishap had occured [...]

It has been my experience that farmers are generous folk, as confirmed last night during a get together with my friends Katy and Gabriel of Sapo Bravo Organics. As we prepared to part ways for the evening, Gabriel offered to give me some produce left over from that day’s Farmers Market. Of course I gratefully [...]

In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations; it’s cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.- Stuart Keate

I’m not quite sure how I missed it, but 4 days ago, on June 12, global peasant turned 1 year old. Seems like just yesterday……

Last weekend part of our homework assignment was to make a chicken stock, using the same method we had been taught the previous week. After doing so, I realized that this stock would need to somehow be used….We had worked with rutabaga on Thursday for our knife skills practice, so I decided to make something [...]

Crab Apple Gown by Nicole DextrasHere is an event you may want to check out….The Art of Food at Emily Carr Institute. This exhibit “features twenty artists who are Emily Carr Institute (ECI) Alumni, Masters or Undergraduate students, whose work deals with food in its imagery or as its medium. As varied in approach as [...]

Hand beaded crystal snowflake by Karin Paul.
Wishing you and yours a delicious holiday and a happy, healthy New Year.
xoxo Diane @ global peasant.

This was the vision that met me on Sunday night when I arrived at my friend Sylvia’s for dinner. She had harvested the garlic from her garden that same day, and was leaving them out to dry on her barn red picnic table.