You know, I’m thinking that glamping would be awfully nice right now. I’ve been living outside now for well over a month paddling north on the Yukon River, and the Arctic Circle is drawing near. What? You’ve never heard of “glamping”? Glamping, short for glamour camping, is the tourist industry’s hottest niche market. And right now it’s looking pretty good to my blood-shot eyes. Wealthy English aristocrats thought up the original concept 150 years ago for their Africa safaris. Then sultans from ...
Things that usually clutter Facebook newsfeeds: cat videos, Instagram pics and party invitations. And increasingly, at least in Nunavut’s capital city, caribou carcasses. In a startling shift away from the long-rooted Inuit custom of sharing food among families, a growing number of opportunistic northerners are instead using Facebook to sell their traditional food.
Iqaluit Sell/Swap, an open group on the popular social networking site, serves primarily as a convenient place to auction off old ...
Ottawa is home to the largest urban Inuit population in Canada. Giving community members a place to come together, The Ottawa Inuit Children's Centre shares and celebrates their heritage while fostering cultural values in a new generation.
Watch as children learn how to clean an arctic char, throat sing and carve soapstone sculptures.
It's not really a sweet tooth that makes us want to buy up every cake in the bakery. It's that squishier organ - our tongue.
Scientists have now dramatically increased our knowledge of how taste cells detect sugars, unlocking some of the tongue's mystique.
Researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center have learned that the way we taste sweets isn't fully explained by our current knowledge of how sugar receptors work. "The taste system continues to amaze me at how smart it is and how it ...
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Wednesday, April 13, 2011
photo: Danielle Scott/flickr
An iconic product, maple syrup is touted as "all natural" and "purely Canadian." The technology used to produce it has advanced, but the product still tastes the way it did hundreds of years ago. Nevertheless, there's a new trend on the rise - organic maple syrup.
"It's my opinion that there’s not much of a difference between organic and regular maple syrup," says Simon Trepanier, director of the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers.
"Most of the maple syrup producers are organic, but ...
