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Traditional crab cakes are usually associated with the U.S. state of Maryland, but Atlantic Canadians love them too. When it comes to crab cakes, simple works best. I like this straight-forward recipe. I’ve even cooked it on a barbecue with a fish rack, to very satisfying results. The coconut sauce is a tip of the [...]

An Annapolis Valley winemaker combines old-world tradition with an iconic Atlantic Canadian flavour

Despite the cobblestones and the Old World courtyard, despite the four-star restaurant in the basement and the marketing trips to New York and Toronto, Hanspeter Stutz is still essentially a farmer. He assumed that role the day in 1993 when he bought a [...]

Nova Scotia is a great melting pot of culinary cultures: the spicy flavours of the Middle East, China and India, the pastas, sausages and potatoes of Europe, the indigenous dishes of the Mi’kmaq, all have imparted their particular flavor on the local cuisine.  Every wave of immigrants who has come to the province has brought [...]

When the Vikings reached the shores of Newfoundland 1,000 years ago they quickly dubbed the place “Vinland” for the wild grapes they supposedly found there. But wild grapes don’t grow on Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula, a fact that led historians to believe that Vinland was much farther south, in New England perhaps, or even in [...]

THE WATER OF MACLELLANS BROOK is already the purest, cleanest water in Cape Breton when it tumbles out of the Mabou Highlands on its way to the Northumberland Strait. But as it runs through the Glenora Distillery grounds, a small portion takes on an extra sweetness. There, it is collected and run through an age-old [...]