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Category Archives: biography
Author Talks and Book Signings
The following are impending talks and book signings by author Terry Keenleyside, accompanied by his wife Dorothy: Authors for Indies, Book City 1430 Yonge St., Toronto (Yonge and St. Clair) Saturday, April 30, 3.30-4.30 p.m. Author signing of the novel, In … Continue reading
Best Blueberry Muffin Recipe Anywhere
Here’s an excerpt from a cottage story on Georgian Bay about that quintessential summer experience of blueberry muffins: “When I am away from the Bay, but thinking of it, and especially of the old table on the porch, one of … Continue reading
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Tagged blueberry muffins, Georgian Bay, wood stove
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A French Love Affair
Excerpt from “A French Love Affair,” At the Table, Nourishing Conversation and Food: “I love France….I’m seduced by its charm and perfectly proportioned beauty: the long, wide avenues where evenly dispersed plane trees hang out alluringly at the curb, languid … Continue reading
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Tagged cafes, dinner conversation, food literature, France, Paris, travel literature
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La Dolce Vita on the Riviera
The good life on the Riviera begins at a young age, as this excerpt from “Over Stuffed Mushrooms, Tim Comes of Age,” in Missing the Bus, Making the Connection: Tales and Tastes of Travel will attest: Returning to Windsor … Continue reading
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Tagged food literature, recipes, Riviera, travel literature
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Setting the Table for the Autumn
Turn Off Your Cellphones! It’s Dinnertime! Here are some opportunities this autumn to learn more about the social, psychological and educational importance of dinnertime conversation and to hear some entertaining excerpts from T.A. Keenleyside’s At the Table, Nourishing Conversation and … Continue reading
Memories of Indonesia
Here’s an excerpt from At the Table, Nourishing Conversation and Food. It’s from a chapter entitled “On the Road to Social Justice,” depicting Indonesia as it was in the 1970s: In Jakarta, we live in an old Dutch colonial home … Continue reading
Mahatma Gandhi and the Pop-Tart Incident
Here is an excerpt from At the Table, Nourishing Conversation and Food on the subject of differing approaches to parenting: Sharron Dalton is probably the greatest cook I know. She can turn the dwindling resources of the sparsest refrigerator into … Continue reading
Setting the Table
Here are two events you might want to attend to learn more about At the Table, Nourishing Conversation and Food: 1.) “Turn Off Your Cell Phones. It’s Dinnertime!” Beaches Speakers’ Series, Juice and Java Cafe, 2102 Queen St. East (at … Continue reading
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Table Talk With Kids
Here’s an excerpt from At the Table, Nourishing Conversation and Food (Penumbra Press, 2012) on the subject of conversing with children at dinnertime: “Isto e chato,” Sam, seven, a demanding eater, complains–“This sucks” in Portuguese. It’s a phrase I taught … Continue reading
Turn Off Your Cell Phones. It’s Dinnertime!
Do we have as many meals around the dining room table as we used to–together as families and friends, enjoying good company and conversation as well as good food? Most observers of contemporary culture tell us “no”, not in today’s … Continue reading
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