Category: food & drink

• love ten times

  

  This fourteenth day of February, in the year two thousand and twenty-five, I am calling on us all to speak love ten times. I’ll start us off … Speak your love ten times today. And tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow.

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  Johanne Provençal

  14 Feb 2025

  arts, culture, music, everyday life, food & drink, nature & landmarks, research and academics

  love, Valentine’s Day

• cookbooks and cocktail parties

  

  It started with my grandmother’s cookbook. She lived in Montréal for much of her life and would have seen the early years of the glowing Five Roses sign (erected in 1948) near the Port of Montréal, so, you bet there was a Five Roses Cookbook in the house. She told me in my twenties that…

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  Johanne Provençal

  7 Dec 2024

  everyday life, food & drink

  cocktail parties, cookbooks

• overnight in the townships

  

  After doing some exploring this past year in the Eastern Townships (or Les Cantons de l’Est, en français) just outside of Montréal, I feel equipped to share a few favourites thus far. I’ll begin with the most recent trek, an overnight visit last weekend with my daughters. The photo above is from the wrap-around balcony…

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  Johanne Provençal

  27 Jul 2024

  food & drink, nature & landmarks, travel

  Cantons de l’Est, Eastern Townships