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A light meal, richly flavoured
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back Issues | Food | Summer 2008 | The Country CookSalad, brussel sprout flan and wafer cups with berries and cream.
Grasses
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back Issues | Environment | Headwaters Sketchbook | Summer 2008Grasses have flowers just like roses or daisies.
Sodom and Gomorrah? Melancthon Township?
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back Issues | Heritage | Historic Hills | In Every Issue | Summer 2008Screaming headlines in Toronto newspapers turned an 1897 trial in Shelburne into a Canada-wide sensation, painting Melancthon as a hotbed of arson, fraud, perjury and intimidation.
A Puzzling Conclusion: Summer 2008
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back Issues | In Every Issue | Leisure | Puzzles | Summer 2008Pennies from Palgrave, missing report pages and walking the line.
Enough of Zoomburb
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back IssuesWhen I moved to Caledon from Toronto in 1974, feeling all starry-eyed and back-to-the-landish, as befitted the mood of the times, the population of the newly minted “town” was just…
Letters – Our readers write: Spring 2008
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back Issues | Letters, Our Readers Write | Spring 2008Letters published in the SPRING 2008 edition of In The Hills magazine.
Bursting bubbles, boosterisms and commoner sense
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Environment | Spring 2008Boost “Deficit spending is already beyond belief, and the country is hugely indebted, as are households. The housing bubble has already burst. The Federal Reserve has made clear it will…
Jim Reid
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back IssuesThe painting sites I choose are places I have revisited since childhood, and so they are also saturated with personal memory.
Eastern Meadowlark
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back Issues | Environment | Headwaters Sketchbook | Spring 2008Eastern Meadowlarks decline 24% in 20 years.
The Party that Grew: Drummers’ Snack
Mar 23, 2008 | | Historic Hills“We did not see a drunken man on the grounds,” observed the Advocate (although the paper did wonder who rang the park bell at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning).
All Abuzz about Honey: Hockley Valley Honey Farm
Mar 23, 2008 | | Homegrown in the HillsDan Garyfalakis surprised his wife Nina with their first pair of beehives as a gift.
Time to buff the barbecue
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back Issues | Food | Spring 2008 | The Country CookWe recommend grilling red snapper, which is the most popular of the 250 or so varieties of snapper.