freddychef

Most of Halifax has been covered so I'll let ya in on a few other spots that are worth trippin around for. If you get up to Acton's in Wolfville try the lobster souffle. Over in Digby at The Pines Resort try thr Sunday brunch, usually agreat assortment of seafood, veg terrines and pates and alot of local seafood, and French pastry. In Mahone bat try Mimi's for lunch or in Lunenberg Magnolias. Up in Cape Breton there's the Duncreigan Inn in Mabou and over in Margaree there's The Normaway Inn. Most of these places are not fine dinning but culturally the trippin and food is above average. To take home, hit the farmer's market on Saturday morning, EARLY and you'll get a great sample of the hidden coast!You'll better get some double smoked bacon from The Austrian Smoke House , sausage from Sweet Williams, some cheese from the Dutchman. Or hit the road and do a tour. Check out the Halifax farmers market website. Email if ya want ideas on travellin around for food and wine. Freddychef

Well quite the response and I must say a bit off topic in some instances but fun just the same. I'm glad that Maggie recieved her postcard and that others were able to decipher the language. First let me outline this project I've began. A couple of years ago I began to research cooking language in general for an anthropological research project (also at this website--not too many takers though!?). I wanted to look at the culture of the kitchen. When I returned to Nfld (mainly Irish, English, Scottish, French and Indigenous Mic Mac) I decided to look beyond the typical cooking terms, words etc that one could find in the online dictionary of the Nfld and Lab language(www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary) I wanted to research all forms of slang and dialect that people had for their food stuff, methods of cooking and the like. That is where the postcard came from. This project has snowballed into a longer than expected journey. I am now looking and gathering a lot more terms as I write.I have been putting this together in various ways and will hopefully do an art installation on the idea of lost culinary culture. All in all quite exciting to capture a piece of our past and hang on to it for the future.....freddychef ps--some of these terms are verbs --methods, as opposed to types of food....