Archive for 2006
Global, Slow Food Calgary
Terra Madre 2006: A Worldwide Community of Cooks
Surely any cook would love to go to Italy and would be tempted to remain once there. There are so many enticing reasons… the gnocchi, the risotto, the squid, the olive groves, the cheeses. The wine, the espresso, the leather goods, the shoes, the chi-chi clothing, the sea, the ruins, and of course, the Italians.
What would possibly make an Italian pilgrimage better? The chance to talk to a thousand cooks from 150 countries around the world.
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Local, Slow Food Calgary
Growing native prairie grasses may help push them off endangered species list
By Erica Simmonds
The grass grew four feet tall in Ann Gerry’s garden, but that’s just the way she likes it. Three years ago, Gerry pulled out most of her Kentucky bluegrass (what most lawns consist of) and planted native prairie grasses and flowers in its place. “It looked beautiful,” says Gerry, a terrestrial ecologist with Saskatchewan Environment and board member of the Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan, who lives in Lumsden, just outside of Regina. “But I’m sure some of my neighbours were puzzled.”
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