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Grapes Under Pressure: Geddy & Alex's Excellent Country Adventure

Join Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson for their second "not-so-annual magnificent Harvest Experience." Yes, due to the phenomenal success and tremendous response to the first Harvest Adventure... we're doing it again!

Enjoy breakfast aboard a private train from Toronto's Union Station as we travel to one of Canada's most exciting up-and-coming wine regions, Prince Edward County.

Our destination is the picturesque and award-winning Huff Estates Winery, where we will take on the role of wine-makers for a few hours while being treated to a variety of the very best wines being produced by various Vintners from the region. Famed chef and County resident Michael Potters (Angeline's and The Spoke Club) will prepare a gourmet vintner's lunch, which we will enjoy alongside the charming vineyards of Huff Estates. Participate in the excitement of a silent auction and some other special surprises during the day before we re-board our private train for the late afternoon ride back to Toronto.

This is an informal yet intimate event where your love and interest in wine will benefit the humanitarian actions of Grapes for Humanity Canada.

This exclusive event is limited to 75 people.

Round trip departs Union station at 8 am Saturday Sept 17th – return trip late afternoon. (Exact travel times will be confirmed by special email.)

To reserve your place for this once-in-a-lifetime oenological adventure, phone Annette Quitevis at 416-445-9920 or email her at annette@sarick.com.

Donate $1,000 per person, includes train travel, winemaking, lunch, wine and more!

If you can't attend but would like to make a donation, please send your cheque to:

Grapes for Humanity
1402–900 Mount Pleasant Road
Toronto, ON M4P 339
U8232 Registered Charity Number: 88936 5813 RR0001

amounts in accordance with Revenue Canada Restrictions

Special thanks to the generosity of the following folks: Pierre Santoni & VIA Rail Canada, Michael Potters & staff, and Huff Estates.

If you use Microsoft products you may be supporting GMO Food.
Bill Gates, whose foundation supports AGRA, also funds several other agricultural initiatives in Africa developing GM crops. AGRA falls under the Gates Foundation's Global Development Program, whose senior programme officer is Dr. Robert Horsch - an employee of biotech giant Monsanto for 25 years and part of a team that developed Roundup Ready GM crops.

FULL STORY: ipsnews.net

PETITION CAN BE FOUND HERE:  gopetition.com

Published by el gastronomo vagabundo on Sep 08, 2010

Target: Ontario Municipal Governments

Region: Canada

Web site: http://www.elgastro.com

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Background (Preamble):

Ontarians have a lot of options when it comes to street food. Poutine with bacon, or poutine with extra cheese? Italian sausage, or Polish sausage? Coke, or Pepsi?

Unfortunately, if you care about your health and don’t want to eat cooked-from-frozen processed foods, you’re out of luck on the streets of Ontario. Although Toronto’s heavily regulated ‘à la Carte’ program launched in 2008, only six vendors have survived the first two years of the program, and there’s no telling what the end result will be for the vendors’ bottom line, or street food in general.

Vancouver’s ‘2010 Street Food Experiment’ is in its second year, with vendor permit lottery winners “The Roaming Dragon” leading the charge, offering healthy pan-Asian inspired street food. The people of Vancouver are satisfying their voracious hunger for healthy, accessible street food in a way that Ontarians can only dream of. Some Ontario municipalities have placed moratoria on their street vendor permits, with chip trucks and hot dog carts holding the lion’s share of existing permits, and justifiably not wanting to give them up to new businesses. Other municipalities simply don’t offer street food permits for prospective vendors at all.

Help persuade local and provincial lawmakers to revise current restrictive vending ordinances that hinder the flourishing of street food culture, and to implement a regulatory system that encourages culinary entrepreneurship and accessible food options.

Help jump start a thriving urban street food scene that brings casual, affordable, delicious food options to our streets and promotes our cities as food culture destinations. Spread the word about the integral role street vendors could play in rejuvenating the life and economy of Ontario municipalities through the creation of viable business opportunities and jobs for Ontarians.

Petition:

We, the undersigned, wish to see healthier street food options made available on public property through the municipal administration of additional street food vendor permits for businesses offering healthy mobile food options.

The Petition for municipal street food vendor permits for businesses offering healthy mobile food options petition to Ontario Municipal Governments was written by el gastronomo vagabundo and is in the category Local Government at GoPetition. Contact author here. Petition tags: street food, mobile food, food truck, vendor permit

All in the Details

Like us, John Gundy, photographer extraordinaire, is a man who appreciates details. Take a peek at some of the details he's snapped since we opened Bohmer in March 2010!

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An American hedge fund is about to break ground on a massive mining project that could poison a million people's drinking water and the headwaters for five major rivers. They want to create an open pit deeper than Niagara Falls and decimate thousands of acres of lush farmland -- and we have 4 days to stop them.

For years, Highland Companies deceived Ontario residents, posing as a potato farming company and quietly buying up thousands of acres of land from local farmers. Then, it was suddenly revealed that the massive plot of farmland would be converted into a limestone quarry -- a 2300 acre pit so deep it would seriously interfere with the ground water system in the region. But, in order to start digging, Highland must win approval from Minister of Natural Resources Linda Jeffrey.

Jeffrey is taking 4 more days to consider public opinion on this quarry before making her decision. We can deliver an overwhelming wave of opposition to Highland's destructive plan. Sign the petition, forward it to everyone and it will be submitted to Jeffrey before the consultation period ends.

Highland's mega-quarry is smack dab in the middle of farmland the whole country depends on for food production. If built, it could poison clean ground water that feeds the lakes and rivers many Canadians use for drinking water. The quarry would require over seven thousand trucks to transport limestone each and every day, upping carbon emissions and requiring new roads to handle the exploding traffic -- further destroying the natural habitat of hundreds of species of animals. The city-sized pit would scar the land long after the mining was finished.

But, residents and environmental activists are working hard to oppose the quarry's license -- even the Environment Minister has called for further assessments. Ontario's Liberal government faces a tough re-election fight in October and Liberal Minister Linda Jeffrey is concerned about public opinion in these key months before votes are cast. A national call will put pressure on Jeffrey and her party to stand up for Canada's environment, its farmers and the fresh water many Canadians depend on for survival.

Let's bring the voice of all Canadians to Ontario's Minister of Natural Resources and force her to kill Highland's plan for environmental destruction. Sign the petition and then forward widely.

Words by Sarah Crawford, photos by John Gundy
To the thousands of attendees from over 150 countries, ‘Terra Madre’ is understood to be about more than the conference itself; the words connote the broad and many would say thrilling shared experience of being in Turin, connecting with like-minded people from around the world, the sensory delights of the massive Salone del Gusto, the gatherings – spontaneous and planned – of new friends, long-time colleagues, locals, and encounters with the rock stars of the Italian and international Slow Food movement.

Read the full story at: goodfoodrevolution.wordpress.com

I was doing research on bullies for Twelfth Night and came across another great Rant by Rick Mercer.

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A paraprosdokian (from Greek "παρα-", meaning "beyond" and "προσδοκία", meaning "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists.

Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis.

[edit] Examples

• "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate." — Henry J. Tillman^[1]
• "I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat." — Will Rogers^[2][3]
• "She got her good looks from her father; he's a plastic surgeon." — Groucho Marx
• "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." — Groucho Marx
• "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know." — Groucho Marx
• "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx
• "It looked so good out this morning, I thought I'd leave it out." — Paul Benjamin King
• "I haven't slept for ten days. Because that would be too long." — Mitch Hedberg
• "You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later." - Mitch Hedberg
• "There’s a bunch of different crunches that affect the abs… my favorite is Nestle." - Shmuel Breban
• "I like going to the park and watching the children run and jump around, because you see, they don't know I'm using blanks." - Emo Philips
• "Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist." - Emo Philips
• "I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'" - Emo Philips
• "Mark my words. No, Mark, I really need my words." — Stephen Colbert
• "If all the girls at Vassar were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised." — Dorothy Parker
• "It's too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs." — Jack Handey
• "On the other hand, we have different fingers." — Jack Handey
• "The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face." — Jack Handey
• "Keep reaching for the stars, because those are the only people who can help you" - Maria Bamford

[edit] See also

• Garden path sentence
• List of linguistic example sentences

[edit] References

1. ^ "Henry J. Tillman Quotes." BrainyQuote. Retrieved on 2007-12-16.
2. ^ "Will Rogers." Wikiquotes. Retrieved on 2007-12-16.
3. ^ "Will Rogers on..." The Official Site of Will Rogers. Retrieved on 2007-12-16.

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Relive Monforte Dairy Hootenanny through the wonder of Event-O-Vision.

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A behind the scenes look at how a bountiful Ontario harvest inspired: a chef to raise money for Pakistan; a truly beautiful meal; the generosity of everyone in the room toward those in need. 100 percent of the proceeds would go to Médecins Sans Frontières Pakistan Floods Relief Fund. (a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders or ‘MSF’).

by Jamie Drummond and Malcolm Jolley. Photos by John Gundy.

On May 31, Amuse Bouche completed its last dinner service.

Co-owners and co-chefs Bertrand Alèpèe and Jason Inniss opened the doors of Amuse Bouche in 2005...

Jamie Drummond and Malcolm Jolley edit Good Food Revolution. Find out more about John Gundy’s photography at johngundy.ca.