Scenes from my workday. It's a tough gig.

When a local restaurant owner invites you to theirs for the interview and lunch and insists you don't bring anything....I still bring something. Got these at HiWay Flowers.

This is research.

All scratch made. Including that chocolate chip cookie in the corner (which was a surprise treat!)

No listen later link to Friday's column.

Instead, here's a pic of Rufus, unimpressed by the fact that my lap is filled with books and not him.

Got to chat with Fouzan at Soi Thaifoon for an upcoming CBCKW Food Column...and got to have this gorgeous Thai Iced Tea.

I LOVE the mixing of the tea with the milk...it looks like turbulence on Mars.

I always look forward to interviews, but I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's!

Someone has invited me to her mum's house to talk about the Mid-Autumn Festival and her mum is going to show me how to make mooncakes :)

Scenes from my workday

Am researching this week's column.

Not a great shot (awkward to do this single handedly, as I'm holding the spoon) but look at that stretch.

Today's post-broadcast breakfast treat is an almond croissant from the Bauer Bakery in Waterloo!

It's been years since I was last in but so happy I went!

Sneak peek!

People think I have a cool job - and I do! Food writer, restaurant reviewer, foodways writer and culinary historian.

But today I got to interview someone who has a super cool job...in more ways than one.

He's an ice cream professor!

So looking forward to pulling this column together.

Sneak peek: Recipe testing for this week's CBCKW food column.

Love when I try something I've never done before. Love it even more when there are two new-to-me things I get to do.

If you need a break from sportsing and the existential angst.

Here's today's AI transcription:

"And of course the berries provide a central essential nutrients. including iron and antioxidants and and Jokers and of course Other other nutrients that people need ."

What is Health Canada's recommended daily intake of jokers? I seem to have missed that in home ec class.

I know sandwiches are a thing.

But I am thinking of doing a series of sandwiches...maybe a column on them. We've got some tasty handhelds here.

She says, as she tucks into a bifana.

When your most favouritist food editor that you've ever worked with moves to within 30 minutes of you, it only takes a few years to set up a lunch date.

Colleen and I last saw each other nine years ago, but more than made up for it as ladies who lunched at Elora's The Friendly Society. SO GOOD.

Surround yourself with good people, folks

Today's hithering and thithering took me to The Olde Heidelberg Restaurant for an interview for an upcoming column. And when I looked across the street, I saw my most favouritist bacon on sale...

Another food column done for CBCKW! The accompanying article about Chef Destiny Moser relearning Indigenous food and culture will be up tomorrow!

I am celebrating with this strawberries and cream croissant and a flat white from dtk's Lucero

So it took so long to get things sorted, I decided to save my post broadcast treat for my afternoon coffee.

This almond croissant came from Roux Bakehouse in Kitchener's Bellmont Village. So looking forward to it.

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Another CBCKW Food column done!

The companion piece on patios and summer menus will be up tomorrow.

I got to share my breakfast, while celebrating local food week, with a Guardian Bunny in training!

While she nibbled on a buffet of greens in my backyard, I had a strawberry-rhubarb muffin from the very good people at Herrle's in St. Agatha.

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Another CBCKW Food column done! Given I talked about delicious things to do and eat at local farmers' markets, I stopped by Simply Delicious at the Kitchener Market for today's hungry gal breakfast: peameal, egg, and real cheddar. Yes. I ate the whole thing.