La Vecchia Italian Restaurant

March 7, 2011

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Waking up today, I didn’t really have a firm plan of what I would prioritize today.  Having changed lifestyles,  I still am trying to nail down a routine to follow.  It doesn’t help that I have so many ideas in my head and I do a little bit of each to keep each one going.  […]

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My favorite fortune cookie of all time

January 14, 2011

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As promised from the earlier post, I would tell you about the fortune I read out of a Chinese fortune cookie.  This happened  back in late October when I was in the process of building my food website http://www.anngagno.com.  When you are working full-time as a chemist and moonlighting at night as a photographer, you […]

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Korean foodie craving

January 14, 2011

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It’s been a while since my last post.  Things have been quite hectic last month when I have to finish my last days as a chemist and trade it for becoming a full-fledged foodie photographer.  It’s a big jump I know.  Quite bordering on insanity.  But I have a good feeling about this change.  I […]

Spanish Tapas

November 23, 2010

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The first time my Catalan best friend told me he is going to bring me to a tapas bar, I have a different food experience in mind.  Philippines being a long time colony of Spain morphed the tapas into a regular man’s everyday breakfast dish in my country.  My idea of a tapa is pan-fried […]

A Swiss Chocolate Love Affair to Remember

November 8, 2010

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My love affair with Swiss Chocolates has been long-standing.  It goes all the way back in 1998 when I first visited Switzerland.  Back then, I worked for a Swiss Company, Hoffmann La Roche, as District Manager for their Diagnostics Products.  My colleagues and I joined a global-wide company competition and was lucky enough to win […]

My Toronto Beer Tour

October 24, 2010

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One of the things that my visiting cousin particularly enjoys are having a taste of different beers from different countries around the world.  So I gave him a taste of what little I know.   I made him try Canada’s Alexander Keith’s White, Rickard’s White, Molson Canadian, Labatt Blue, Mill Street and Steam Whistle. I like […]

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Pumpkin Farm Road trip

October 18, 2010

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Every year my sister and I invite friends and family to her house and we collectively carve pumpkins.  We give the pumpkins and by the end of the get-together, we take photos of the pumpkins together with who had carved it.  It’s all in great fun and company.  This year we scheduled it for next […]

Posted in: Foodie Road Trips

Oktoberfest 2010 in Kitchener-Waterloo

October 15, 2010

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It seems all my intent to retro post past foodie travels have to wait as I am running around Toronto and surrounding area to show my favorite cousin around.  Last weekend, we went to Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario to check out the Canadian version of Okotoberfest (www.oktoberfest.ca). Before indulging in beer, we headed out first to see […]

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My first Canadian Thanksgiving dinner!

October 12, 2010

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After all this time in Toronto, I never have embraced the holiday of Thanksgiving.  I have always found another thing to do, another place to visit, so much so that I never really stopped and consider experiencing it.  This year however, I have a visiting cousin from Manila who would be arriving Thanksgiving weekend.  He […]

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Foodie says “Hello world!”

October 8, 2010

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And so I finally did get myself a blog.  Through all the bewilderment of going through pages and pages of tutorials on how to get started in wordpress, I think I would get the hang of this :) Food has always been a joy as far back as I could remember.  It’s funny how I […]

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