Food + Drink Articles

Now that we are all cozy in our new office, the ChickAdvisor H.Q girls decided it would be fun to kick off a little bit early the last Friday of every month for a group activity, hence "Fun Friday" was born. Last week was the first and here's what we did...

Some years it’s just bound to happen.  You’re a single girl, and just as you’ve shelved your sparkling pumps until next year’s holiday season, your favourite stores are suddenly taken over by a crush of red and pink.  Valentine’s Day is coming, and it seems every card and confectionery maker in the world is hell-bent on making sure you know it.

As the new decade gets underway,...

My favourite Bavarian cookbook is subtitled 100 Rezepte zum Schlemmen und Schmecken.  While that might sound like a whole lot of gobbledygook to you, the words themselves sound like a watering mouth, and translate to "feast and taste".  German cuisine is everything the experts tell us is bad: carbs, salty kraut, and yeasty beer.  In other words, homey and filling.  (And anyway,...

My stylish friend, Kim Vallée runs popular Montreal based style blog AtHomeWithKimVallee, and since she is coming to town this weekend for IDS, asked me to write up my top 5 picks for what to do this weekend.

Here we go!

1. Start Saturday morning with Brunch at School

Indulging in our guilty pleasures is a hard habit to kick. We’ve all had that craving for a bacon double cheeseburger with chili fries, or spent an evening de-stressing on the couch with a tub of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

With the start of each new year comes the promise of bettering our lives, and for many that means trimming off some excess weight. However, we so often forget that...

One more thing to love about winter: the start of the new year's Prix Fixe dining events! This is your chance to sample the best food in town for a fraction of the menu price.

Just a few of the Restaurant Weeks that recently caught our eye:

Canada
Calgary Mar 5-14
Montreal Jan 11-31
Toronto Jan 29-Feb 11
Nova Scotia Feb 1-11
Vancouver Apr 26-May 6

USA
Chicago Feb 19-28

Portion control was a buzz word of the '00s as a solution to the supersized '90s. Research showed us that when we ate popcorn from a large bag we subconsciously ate more  than if we had eaten it out of a small bag.  And when given a plate of food, whether big or small, we would tend to eat mindlessly until it was clean. The solution thrust upon us? 100-calorie snack packs.

These...

There are few things that bring back childhood nostalgia quite like PB & J.  That simple brown-bagged sandwich recalls the days of learning to read, colour, and play nicely with others for academic credit.  For many of us, those were also the years of being teased, breaking limbs in some ridiculous way, and being dis-invited from a friend's Strawberry Shortcake-themed birthday...