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What does a schoolchild's packed lunch have in common with a $300-a-head meal at a three-Michelin-star restaurant? These days, both frequently include an edible leather: a puree of fruit (or, in the case of the restaurant, more often of a vegetable, such as tomato or onion) spread thin and dehydrated until it becomes stretchy.
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What does a schoolchild's packed lunch have in common with a $300-a-head meal at a three-Michelin-star restaurant? These days, both frequently include an edible leather: a puree of fruit (or, in the case of the restaurant, more often of a vegetable, such as tomato or onion) spread thin and dehydrated until it becomes stretchy.
A super-food combination from the new cookbook 50 Best Plants on the Planet (Chronicle/Raincoast, $34.95), this salad can be made with early-season vegetables and served with your choice of grilled meat or fish as a fast, easy dinner.
The recipe for this pie and its crust are taken from The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook (Random House Canada, 2001). The flaky crust is made from an easy-to-roll pastry dough.
You can put this out as an appetizer or it makes for good snacking watching a movie or a game. Watch out: they might be addictive.
Hillary Rodham Clinton honoured fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, the man responsible for a teal, silk pantsuit she wore when she was sworn in as a U.S. senator.
This week it's all kale, all the time in recipes for snacks, salads, stews, soups, smoothies and main courses. Our collection of a dozen recipes includes recipes for Roasted Kale Chips, Spicy Sesame Kale Salad, Moroccan Vegetable Stew, a Pretty Green Smoothie, and Stuffed and Baked Polenta.
We're throwing the trend book out the window and finding strange inspirations for our fave summertime nail art! In this video, we looked over the dock into the water at multi-dimensional fish scales for a pearlescent and pretty manicure.
Dinner reservations in Canada increasingly mean securing a spot in the drive-thru line, with the latest trade figures showing that visits to fast-food joints account for nearly two-thirds of out-of-home meal traffic.
As the dog days of summer scorch on, no one wants to swelter through a hot cup of coffee, but most people still need their daily caffeine kick. At the same time, many coffee shops charge premiums for the privilege of simply watering down your hot coffee with ice.
Local Life Features
Craft Beer Report: The season of saison
This summer marks the true arrival of saison in B.C. The classic Belgian session beer is turning up in taprooms, brew pubs and liquor stores in force.
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Chef Antonio Park’s Asian salads are sweet, salty, sour and crunchy
Salad doesn’t have to be a precursor to dinner. It doesn’t even have to be green.
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Less is more when packing your makeup bag for a trip
It’s a given that air travel isn’t what it was. The days of free inflight meals and drinks, free checked luggage and free seat assignments have mostly gone the way of the dinosaurs. Factor in the security measures that limit liquids and gels to 100 mL (4 oz.) in carry-on luggage and flying becomes more laborious — especially if you refuse to travel without your full beauty regimen.
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Big families: Big love
With the tabloids filled with stories about Brangelina’s disobedient brood and their chaotic life behind closed chateau doors, what's it actually like to manage a big family on a day-to-day basis?.
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Easy-to-make cherry pie
The recipe for this pie and its crust are taken from The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook (Random House Canada, 2001). The flaky crust is made from an easy-to-roll pastry dough.
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Royal baby
Birth? What birth? Prince William is scheduled to play polo this weekend
Duchess Kate may not have an early birth after all
Gallery: Day 2 -- Hong Kong Fashion Week Spring 2013
Designs by Kanna Yamauchi Yokang, Christine Lam, Rick Hung, Anthony Bachtiar and Eliza Yeung on the ...
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Tomato Bounce
Help the tomatoes escape the dreaded salad! Bounce them across the kitchen to the table.
Fashion & Beauty
Video: Strange Inspirations -- The Secret Garden nail art
We're throwing the trend book out the window and finding strange inspirations for our fave summertime nail art! In this video, we found inspiration in Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic summertime reading book 'The Secret Garden'.
- Gallery: Day 2 -- Hong Kong Fashion Week Spring 2013
- De la Renta and Hillary Clinton jest about "Project Pantsuit", a spinoff of "Project Runway"
- Birth of a fashion nation
- Jean Paul Gaultier claws back on top, as Valentino's couture dazzles
- Elie Saab embraces the colour that made him famous: Red-carpet red
- Kensington Palace displays glamorous royal wardrobe from Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana
Food
Edible leathers make popular lunch box treats
What does a schoolchild's packed lunch have in common with a $300-a-head meal at a three-Michelin-star restaurant? These days, both frequently include an edible leather: a puree of fruit (or, in the case of the restaurant, more often of a vegetable, such as tomato or onion) spread thin and dehydrated until it becomes stretchy.
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Antonio Park
- Chef Antonio Park’s Asian salads are sweet, salty, sour and crunchy
- Craft Beer Report: The season of saison
- Easy-to-make cherry pie
- New Yorkers beat the summer heat at ice bar, where more than drinks are frozen
- Forget the Cronut, try Vancouver’s own tasty, flaky Frissant
- Recipe: Corn and Steak Grilled Nachos
Parenting
Is there a stigma against big families? These clans find eight is enough to love
For Calgary mom Katie O'Connor and her six children, nothing draws attention to the size of her young family quite like boarding an airplane. The kids range in age from 11 down to three and, because O'Connor colour co-ordinates their outfits on vacation (to keep track of them in crowded places), they file aboard like the von Trapps, less one.
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Relationships
Women embrace aging, despite experiencing ageism more deeply than men
Defying the drumbeat of anti-wrinkle ads, Canadian women aged 66 and older are feeling pretty good about aging. It’s the people with whom they interact who seem to have a problem with it.
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Gallery: Creemore Hill Estate, Ontario -- $2.997M
Built between 1994 and 1996, this fairytale country home seamlessly combines the influences of French Country with English Tudor
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- Gallery: James Island, B.C. for sale - US$75M
- Gallery: Contemporary Beaches home, Toronto -- $1.269M
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- Gallery: Spectacular North Vancouver residence -- $3.198M
- Gallery: Sprawling bungalow in Oakville, Ontario -- $11M
- Gallery: Gated estate in West Vancouver -- $8.98M
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