I no different than most of you – I eat for pleasure and fun but I also eat for health because it makes me feel good and that’s part of the pleasure. I know, I know, health means different things to different people. For example, I know many who think that losing weight will make them healthy. But here’s the thing, weight loss does not always equate to good health, although a healthy weight is a part of being healthy. Oh, I hate obsessing about nutrition or diets, at the expense of good food or food porn but it […]

If someone would have told me that great things would come from a dark, burlesque establishment, my mind certainly wouldn’t have gone to community development. No, I’d have other thoughts on my mind. But that’s the best thing about sexy topics; they’re rarely predictable. The sultry Brazen Café on King Street in St Catharines has a row of crystal chandeliers that reflect elegantly against the sleek, black ceiling like diamonds sparkling on a starry night. In a corner, a tall, elaborate candelabrum erotically drips with creamy coloured candle wax against the sensual black on black wallpaper, the perfect foil […]

As a budding nutritionist in school and a veteran food writer with a natural curiosity for all things that come in a glass or on a plate, I experimented with scores supplement routines, alternative therapies, healing modalities and a wealth of different nutrition plans. Some of them were incredibly extreme and complicated to follow, but I’ve always been a person who can follow through with any goal I set for myself – I just do it! So when I was given a blood sugar stabilizing diet of eating 3 meals and 3 snacks a day I threw myself into […]

I’ve been in the food world for a very long time. Some say it consumes me and others claim I’m obsessed with it. I’m not sure where the truth lies; all I know is that I have no memories that don’t somehow relate to food and all of my goals involve food in one way or another. In any case, I think I’ve done pretty well in my delicious little universe. As many of you know in September of 2017 I started full-time school to become a holistic nutritionist. Or perhaps you’ve forgotten. It’s been so intense I haven’t […]

September 15 to October 14, 2017,  the St. Marys Station Gallery will host the first of its kind exhibition of the award winning food photography of Jon Ogryzlo. Ogryzlo’s mouth-watering pictures can be found in cookbooks the likes of the Niagara Cooks series and The Ontario Table (both internationally award winning cookbooks). The exhibition will feature large, glistening photographs of dishes who’s recipes can be found in The Ontario Table cookbook, available through the duration of the exhibition enrobed in a silk ribbon to all with a $20 donation to the St Marys Station Gallery. The Ontario Table cookbook […]