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Originality as a culinary booster

This issue features three recipes that illustrate my determination to continue introducing originality into my culinary repertoire. Over the past decade, burrata cheese — a

Long knives and a silent symphony

Editor’s note: All dates and times are tentative, as pandemic public health rules evolve. Please contact galleries before visiting to learn of any changes.  

On diplomacy, sovereignty and peacemaking

They Call It Diplomacy: Forty Years of Representing Britain Abroad By Peter Westmacott Head of Zeus, Apollo Books, 2021 368 pages Kindle: $9.99 Soon after

Photography: The new art of diplomacy

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what power does that give an ambassador with an entire gallery to draw upon? Add the fact

Envoy’s Album – Summer 2021

                                           

The flavour-packed skin of grapes and why it matters

Most wine grapes’ characteristics and colour come from the skins. Grape pulp houses sugars, water and acids, but it’s the thin protective layer that gives

A trio of summertime eats

Regardless of all that is happening around us, summer is the time to celebrate the outdoors — barbecuing, al fresco dining and savouring the flavours

Portraits of Canada

Note: Given the continuing uncertainty of public-health lockdowns, be sure to check with museums and galleries before visiting, as dates listed here could change. It’s

China: A hidden workforce and education crisis

One recent, pre-COVID-era Christmas, I searched out the neighbourhood Canadian Tire for an instant-read thermometer, a gift for the cook in the family. There were