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  • Elsewhere Today

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    Hamburger Bed.  I’ve had dreams like this.   [Facebook Page]  [via Geekologie] New to me:  A Hamburger Today – a subsite of Serious Eats.  I love me some hamburgers! also of Serious Eats, Slice – as above but for Pizza!

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  • What I love about 24

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    Yes, I admit it, I love 24!  The Day 6 debacle aside (man, that was a terrible season), I have enjoyed every season, regardless of the plausibility issues and repetitive trappings and all of it…  and this review of the first two episode arc of Day 7 on AV Club gets to some of why…

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  • Favourite Things: Simply Recipes

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    To kick off our first Favourite Things feature here at FineDiners.ca, Simply Recipes is one of my favourite recipe sites on the web.  There are many others to be sure, some of which will be featured here as well, but this one I keep coming back to. It is a blog published by Elise Bauer…

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  • Anne Desbrisay: Best Bites of 2008

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    This link is a bit old, but Anne Desbrisay of The Ottawa Citizen writes about her Best Bites of 2008: My year on a fork: “Two thousand and eight was a banner year for good new restaurants in the Capital Region. The ones that gave me most pleasure (in order of tasting) were Napo, Fraser…

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    This article about How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing is really fascinating.

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  • Ron Eade: Benitz Bistro and B-Sides Recession Menus

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    Ron Eade from The Ottawa Citizen reports on Derek Benitz’s Recession Menus at his two restaurants: by finding efficiencies in the kitchen (using less expensive cuts of meat, ditching expensive out of season fresh vegetables that have to be flown in, etc), he’s been able to drop prices on his menu in hopes that in…

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  • Fine Diners and New Years Resolutions

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    I don’t usually make New Years Resolutions, and I’m not about to start now, but the soft launch of this site happens to coincide with the beginning of the new year(ish), so let’s just say that I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to make posting here a new habit in 2009. So this is the…

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