Life

Budding writers are being challenged again this year with So You Think You Can Write - a contest that is also a public writing workshop for Vancouver Island's amateur wordsmiths.

The Social Network and Catfish find different ways to tap into the zeitgeist

After experiencing the real thing and finding it wanting, Globe and Mail's Lucy Waverman offers some "alternative" German recipes that are "lighter and healthier but still full of flavour." Some readers are scornful: Achtung, foodie: German cuisine .

When meeting friends for lunch on a recent weekday, after finding both our intended destination and its hastily determined replacement venue closed, we headed to the Oak Bay Village. I have visited Bon Sushi several times.

Annual fair originated with 'mompreneur' who saw a niche for new parents

Some colleagues have been debating the best way to cook hot dogs. I haven't thought much about this, but they obviously have. To summarize: Boiling: Very bad. Uck. Flavour drains away.

Food package labels, it turns out, are sometimes a little loose with the truth. In the U.S.

Back-to-school styles through the eyes of a six-year-old

I had fresh-from-fryer McDonald's french fries yesterday and they were pretty good. Not as good as the ones at Red Fish Blue Fish or Willows Galley.

With the year 5771 coming up next week in the Jewish lunar calendar, Chabad Lubavitch of Vancouver Island is hosting Victoria's first Jewish New Year Fair.