The Blork Blog

Chef Nick of Montreal Food Blog has been posting some pretty interesting recipes lately. Today I was inspired to use one of them for our Sunday lunch. I took his “‘New Canadian’ Four Cheese Pasta” Recipe and modified it to suit the ingredients I had on hand, plus I added some roasted chicken and sautéed […]

I‘m no economist, so I’m not going to make the mistake of pronouncing one way or another on the proposed $700 Billion Wall Street bailout that is currently being discussed in the U.S. But I’ll say this, if economists Marcus Alexis of Northwestern University, Jeremy T. Fox of University of Chicago, Matthew Kahn of UCLA, […]

The Walrus, if you don’t know, is a Canadian magazine that likes to be invited to the same parties as Harper’s, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic. It specializes in long-form journalism from a Canadian perspective, which generally means it is doomed. Yet it has managed to hang on for five years and seems to be […]

David Foster Wallace, an American writer with a sharp wit, an illimitable vocabulary, and an odd way with satire and irony, hanged himself at his home in California on Saturday. He was 46 years old.
Tributes to Wallace abound on the Web, so instead I will give you the following anecdote.
Late last winter a friend announced […]

My friend Jeff Fuchs is going to be in town this weekend (September 13) showing photographs and doing a talk to promote his new book “The Ancient Tea Horse Road” (Viking Canada). It’s a book of text and photographs recounting the 6000 kilometer trek through the Himalayas that Jeff lead in 2006, following an ancient […]

In lieu of meaningful content, I hereby present you with five pictures of bees.
Don’t laugh – you try to take photos of live bees with a point & shoot camera. Right. Not easy. (Check Flickr for larger images with more detail, starting here.)
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