Category Archives: food

Deliciousness in the making

14 Sunday Jul 2019

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One of the mini-donut vendors churning ’em out on the Calgary Stampede midway this week.

Airstream catering

26 Tuesday Feb 2019

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Airstream catering

Now that’s what you call repurposing. Spotted this food stall in Brighton back in May 2018.

Afternoon jolt

21 Wednesday Mar 2018

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Random smartphone photo while enjoying my afternoon café allongé.

Intoxicating smells

03 Thursday Aug 2017

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This warning about intoxicating odours is truth in advertising for this food truck, spotted at the Calgary Folk Music Festival this weekend.

Tempe sandwich artists

19 Sunday Feb 2017

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Sandwich artists

A well-known international chain of submarine sandwich shops calls its employees sandwich artists. But at this Tempe, Arizona, submarine shop, it’s the clients who are truly sandwich artists.

Budapest Market Hall

14 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Market Hall

Here’s a view of the Market Hall in Budapest, inside and out.

Fresh offerings

Happily preserved

Oh, honey!

Beware the apple-anche!

10 Friday Apr 2015

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Beware the cascade of apples

This pun-loving vendor at Pike Place Market in Seattle was very grateful (and oddly relieved) when she realized I understood the joke on this sign. Too often, she lamented, visitors would miss the word play and wonder what kind of Spanish-sounding variety an “apple-anche” was.

Corny Big

13 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Corny Big

Because the names of foreign snack foods can be amusing. Saw this in a vending machine at the Osnabrück train station in Germany, while I was on my way to Hamburg this past summer. (Unfortunately, I did not try this.)

Trying to eat on the cheap: Saving a few kroner/kronor in northern Europe

21 Sunday Dec 2014

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Swedish meatballs

About two years ago, I tackled the tension between finances and food after visiting Paris and Amsterdam. This instalment takes us to northern Europe.
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Art on caffeine

09 Friday May 2014

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Art on caffeine

Some of the baristas at this Calgary coffee shop have drizzle skillz.