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Denise Williams specializes in designs for her people -- and they're buying

Food snobbery is out of control in North America. Don't get me wrong.

Guerilla gardening in Montreal: Neighbours unhappy about a garbage-strewn vacant lot in their midst take action. montrealgazette.com Chinese restaurant as prairie icon. Almost every prairie town has or had one.

I've discovered something interesting about the subject of this week's column, namely no one seems to know where it is. "What? There's a Sheraton in Langford?" "Yes, behind Costco.

Things that I probably shouldn't have bought. Plus, things for which I should have read the manual. 1. Despite the warnings of a colleague ("don't buy it"), I bought a heavyweight, porcelain-coated cast-iron grill pan.

Pasta with white beans, carrots and celery Ten of us gathered for lunch at Pizzeria Prima Strada's Bridge Street location.

One man's long, determined effort to get a $4 rebate for a 20-pack of Miller Geniune Draft Beer. At latimes.com A visit, with plenty of photos, to the semi-famous Tin Shed in Portland, Oregon . At seriouseats.

Red Fish Blue Fish, the seafood place on the Inner Harbour, is getting a lot of praise, with warm mentions all over the place. As a result, most days, the lineups at its order window are constant, and usually longish.

I'm back from my slumbers, revived by lemonade. I had never made lemonade before. Then, I spotted one of those fancy hang-up-in-your-kitchen decorations with drawings of lemons and a "classic" lemonade recipe in elegant type.

The menu intrigues you enough to cross the threshold and in an instant, the noisy tourist clatter that is summer on Wharf Street yields to a darkened but welcoming lounge, beckoning you to you linger for a drink or perhaps several.