Food has always been a part of travel. No matter where you go in the world, you still have to eat. But if unique culinary experiences are the reason you travel in the first place, our food tours are for you. More than showing you the world’s best kitchens, markets, and restaurants, these food-focused trips reveal something new and unexpected about the destination.
Auld Lang Syne Lyrics & HistoryAuld Lang Syne is an old Lowland Scots poem published by Robert Burns in 1788. Roughly translated, it means “long, long ago” or literally old long time. However, the song isn’t an entirely original composition. Burns collected the lyrics from multiple songs, including several versions of Auld Lang Syne, that hadn’t entirely existed in print before. The phrases “Old Long Syne” and “Auld Lang Syne”, as well as several lyrical similarities to the Burns version, can be found in older poems and ballads by Allan Ramsay, Robert Ayton, and James Watson.
Catastrophic flooding in five Canadian cities has driven down the selling price of homes by 8.2%, reduced the number of houses listed for sale by nearly half, and increased the average time it takes to sell a house by nearly 20%, according to new research obtained by The Energy Mix.The study by the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, due to be released February 15, connects flood risk to more intense storms due to a combination of factors, including climate change, loss of natural infrastructure like forests, fields, and wetlands in southern Canada, poor land use planning, over-building of communities, and aging homes and municipal infrastructure.“Canada has the tools necessary to mitigate flood risk, today,” states a draft media release from the Waterloo, Ontario-based Centre. But “if these tools are not mobilized with urgency, flood disasters worse than those seen in southern British Columbia in November 2021 will be commonplace across Canada.”The research focused on five communities that went through a total of six catastrophic floods between 2009 and 2020: Grand Forks, British Columbia; Burlington, Ontario; Toronto; Ottawa; and Gatineau, Quebec. It found that the floods drove down final sale prices by 8.2%, and the number of houses listed for sale by 44.3%, while increasing the number of days required to sell a house by 19.8%.The study was the first of its kind in Canada, Centre Director Blair Feltmate told The Mix.Researchers looked at housing markets in the five communities for six months before and after each flood and compared them to “nearby non-flooded control communities over identical time frames,” the release states.“The study also examined the impact of community level flooding on mortgage arrears and deferrals in two Canadian cities for six months pre- and post-flooding,” the Intact Centre adds. “Results showed no change in homeowners’ ability to pay their mortgage, but a reduction in the appraised value of a house due to flooding would influence limits on lending by mortgage providers.”If a homeowner relies on a mortgage to cover 80% of the purchase price of a house, “and now you find out the house is worth less, now it’s a security issue for the bank or the mortgage provider,” Feltmate added.With Canada beginning to speed up its efforts on home energy retrofits, he said the new study makes a strong case for combining flood risk assessments with home energy inspections.“We’ve done very good work to evaluate the energy envelope of the house,” Feltmate said. “But simultaneously, we should be executing home flood evaluation, protection, and guidance to homeowners, hand in glove with the energy assessments. It’s just astronomically ill-advised not to combine the two, and it’s such an easy thing to solve.”An Intact Centre infographic [pdf] lists more than a dozen steps homeowners can take to eliminate or reduce flood risk at little or no cost. The release calls on cities, banks, insurance companies, real estate associations, and electricity distribution companies to distribute that guidance to homeowners.It also urges the federal government to connect a Climate Adaptation Home Rating Program to the EnerGuide home energy audit system, update its flood risk maps and make them available to the public, develop residential flood risk scores by postal code, identify and protect areas at high risk for flooding, and retain and restore natural infrastructure to reduce flood risk.
When the 2021 America’s Cup defender plotted out the path for the next edition in 2024, Team New Zealand had a venue announcement pegged for September 17,
This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. Terms apply to the offers listed on this page. For an explanation of our Advertising Policy, visit this page.There’s something magical about ordering the perfect cocktail, especially in the perfect setting.Dim lights. A plush banquette. The faint but omnipresent melody from the pianist a few seats over.And to top it all off, a tower of bar snacks (assorted olives, addictive crisps and more) straddling the line between art and delicacy.That’s exactly what two Americans found during a recent trip to London at the famed American Bar at The Savoy – a singularly British experience with an American name. Yet just a few blocks away, we discovered a completely different (but equally British) experience: pounding back a few cheap pints at the corner pub.For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter.Nothing reminds us why we love to travel more than becoming immersed in a setting so comfortable — yet so out of your everyday routine — that you feel as if you’ve become part of the very fabric of the space and a fixture of the neighborhood. There are few better places to get your finger on the pulse of a city than in its bars, whether you elbow up to a bar in a swanky hotel lobby or grab a seat in a boisterous pub.Of course, there’s no fair way to compare the refined atmosphere of one of the most historic hotel bars in the world with a chain of everyday watering holes, but that’s exactly what we plan to do.
International Restaurant GuidesDURING LUNAR NEW YEAR, A prosperous future belongs to those who eat their weight in luck. Diners slurp long noodles to ensure long lives and scarf down bone-in fish to swim to new fortunes. But the sweetest of these auspicious New Year dishes may be nian gao, a sticky cake eaten with the hope that the upcoming year will be more fortunate than the last.Like many symbolic Chinese dishes, nian gao comes with its own set of origin stories about warding off bad luck and overcoming hardship. Lucas Sin is a Hong Kong native and the chef at Junzi,* which has locations in New York and Connecticut. He recalls hearing the nian gao legend as a kid growing up in Hong Kong. According to the story, a giant monster named Nian would appear during the winter to prey on a village. With its sharp teeth, jagged horns, dog-like body, and a hairdo resembling a barrister’s powdered wig, Nian routinely intimidated the villagers into hiding. The villagers lived in constant fear, until a particular family hatched a plan.
The B.C. government is being urged to make oil and gas companies pay more for their use of billions of litres of water in fracking operations, as provincial officials review royalties collected by the province from the industry.
Several public advocacy organizations say the government’s ongoing review is “flawed” because it has failed to consider “outdated” water-use policies that are allowing some companies to extract fresh water for free.
Almost all the natural gas in B.C. is produced through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process in which a slurry of water, chemicals and sand is pumped into horizontal wells, creating cracks underground. These cracks are kept propped open by the sand, allowing gas to flow through the fractures in the earth to the surface.
Curmudgeons Day celebrates the birth of William Claude Dukenfield who was born on January 29th in 1880. W.C. Fields, in short, is a self-professed curmudgeon who is known for his comedies, writing, drinking. #CurmudgeonsDay
Coconut adds flavor, fragrance, and a creamy texture to soup without the need for dairy. Choose from Chinese curried coconut egg-drop soup, a cooling cream of coconut cucumber soup, a vegetarian version of the classic Indian mulligatawny, and much more. All of the coconut soup recipes in this collection are super delicious, nourishing, and packed with flavor. If you love a Thai coconut soup, check out our tom kha gai soup, too.
With all the holiday cheer in the air, it can be a downer to go to an ugly sweater party only to learn that you can’t eat any of the festive treats on display. People with food intolerances certainly have to do some planning ahead when it comes to holiday sweets, but the good news is, there are TONS of delicious dairy- and gluten-free recipes out there… even Christmas cookie ones!
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Auld Lang Syne Lyrics & HistoryAuld Lang Syne is an old Lowland Scots poem published by Robert Burns in 1788. Roughly translated, it means “long, long ago” or literally old long time. However, the song isn’t an entirely original composition. Burns collected the lyrics from multiple songs, including several versions of Auld Lang Syne, that hadn’t entirely existed in print before. The phrases “Old Long Syne” and “Auld Lang Syne”, as well as several lyrical similarities to the Burns version, can be found in older poems and ballads by Allan Ramsay, Robert Ayton, and James Watson.
Catastrophic flooding in five Canadian cities has driven down the selling price of homes by 8.2%, reduced the number of houses listed for sale by nearly half, and increased the average time it takes to sell a house by nearly 20%, according to new research obtained by The Energy Mix.The study by the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, due to be released February 15, connects flood risk to more intense storms due to a combination of factors, including climate change, loss of natural infrastructure like forests, fields, and wetlands in southern Canada, poor land use planning, over-building of communities, and aging homes and municipal infrastructure.“Canada has the tools necessary to mitigate flood risk, today,” states a draft media release from the Waterloo, Ontario-based Centre. But “if these tools are not mobilized with urgency, flood disasters worse than those seen in southern British Columbia in November 2021 will be commonplace across Canada.”The research focused on five communities that went through a total of six catastrophic floods between 2009 and 2020: Grand Forks, British Columbia; Burlington, Ontario; Toronto; Ottawa; and Gatineau, Quebec. It found that the floods drove down final sale prices by 8.2%, and the number of houses listed for sale by 44.3%, while increasing the number of days required to sell a house by 19.8%.The study was the first of its kind in Canada, Centre Director Blair Feltmate told The Mix.Researchers looked at housing markets in the five communities for six months before and after each flood and compared them to “nearby non-flooded control communities over identical time frames,” the release states.“The study also examined the impact of community level flooding on mortgage arrears and deferrals in two Canadian cities for six months pre- and post-flooding,” the Intact Centre adds. “Results showed no change in homeowners’ ability to pay their mortgage, but a reduction in the appraised value of a house due to flooding would influence limits on lending by mortgage providers.”If a homeowner relies on a mortgage to cover 80% of the purchase price of a house, “and now you find out the house is worth less, now it’s a security issue for the bank or the mortgage provider,” Feltmate added.With Canada beginning to speed up its efforts on home energy retrofits, he said the new study makes a strong case for combining flood risk assessments with home energy inspections.“We’ve done very good work to evaluate the energy envelope of the house,” Feltmate said. “But simultaneously, we should be executing home flood evaluation, protection, and guidance to homeowners, hand in glove with the energy assessments. It’s just astronomically ill-advised not to combine the two, and it’s such an easy thing to solve.”An Intact Centre infographic [pdf] lists more than a dozen steps homeowners can take to eliminate or reduce flood risk at little or no cost. The release calls on cities, banks, insurance companies, real estate associations, and electricity distribution companies to distribute that guidance to homeowners.It also urges the federal government to connect a Climate Adaptation Home Rating Program to the EnerGuide home energy audit system, update its flood risk maps and make them available to the public, develop residential flood risk scores by postal code, identify and protect areas at high risk for flooding, and retain and restore natural infrastructure to reduce flood risk.
When the 2021 America’s Cup defender plotted out the path for the next edition in 2024, Team New Zealand had a venue announcement pegged for September 17,
This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. Terms apply to the offers listed on this page. For an explanation of our Advertising Policy, visit this page.There’s something magical about ordering the perfect cocktail, especially in the perfect setting.Dim lights. A plush banquette. The faint but omnipresent melody from the pianist a few seats over.And to top it all off, a tower of bar snacks (assorted olives, addictive crisps and more) straddling the line between art and delicacy.That’s exactly what two Americans found during a recent trip to London at the famed American Bar at The Savoy – a singularly British experience with an American name. Yet just a few blocks away, we discovered a completely different (but equally British) experience: pounding back a few cheap pints at the corner pub.For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter.Nothing reminds us why we love to travel more than becoming immersed in a setting so comfortable — yet so out of your everyday routine — that you feel as if you’ve become part of the very fabric of the space and a fixture of the neighborhood. There are few better places to get your finger on the pulse of a city than in its bars, whether you elbow up to a bar in a swanky hotel lobby or grab a seat in a boisterous pub.Of course, there’s no fair way to compare the refined atmosphere of one of the most historic hotel bars in the world with a chain of everyday watering holes, but that’s exactly what we plan to do.
DURING LUNAR NEW YEAR, A prosperous future belongs to those who eat their weight in luck. Diners slurp long noodles to ensure long lives and scarf down bone-in fish to swim to new fortunes. But the sweetest of these auspicious New Year dishes may be nian gao, a sticky cake eaten with the hope that the upcoming year will be more fortunate than the last.Like many symbolic Chinese dishes, nian gao comes with its own set of origin stories about warding off bad luck and overcoming hardship. Lucas Sin is a Hong Kong native and the chef at Junzi,* which has locations in New York and Connecticut. He recalls hearing the nian gao legend as a kid growing up in Hong Kong. According to the story, a giant monster named Nian would appear during the winter to prey on a village. With its sharp teeth, jagged horns, dog-like body, and a hairdo resembling a barrister’s powdered wig, Nian routinely intimidated the villagers into hiding. The villagers lived in constant fear, until a particular family hatched a plan.
#CurmudgeonsDay
