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NATURE A dry summer followed by pounding rain has been good news for Vancouver Island mushrooms, now popping up in great numbers.

Send up the flares - the good kind. The Canadian Coast Guard is celebrating 50 years of service and safety this year and the Maritime Museum of B.C. is honouring its West Coast and national contributions with a new exhibit, open until March 23.

Grammy-winning singer Sheryl Crow has listed her compound in Hollywood Hills West at $15.95 million.

Dear Condo Smarts: Our company owns three corporate suites in a high-rise building in Vancouver. We have used them for housing employees who are transferred to the city for periods of three months to a year.

Volunteers for three not-for-profit organizations are using soup ladles to stir up support for important causes. Support all three and you'll enjoy some good soup, take home a handmade bowl and acquire a fabulous new cookbook.

It's not often I get to eat something I've never tasted before. I remember my first encounter with mole sauce, the first time I tossed back an oyster and my introduction to the lightly cured, air-dried Spanish ham, jamon serrano.

Popular in Asian cuisine, five-spice blend combines spices that are warm and cool as well as sweet and bitter

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