Posted in It's the People! on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: Antwerp Central Station (Belgium) just before Flash Mob “Sound of Music”
Photo: participants in “T-Mobile” Flash Mob commercial
Happy time! To get you in the spirit of Christmas “Joy to the World,” here are LINKS to some of the more memorable Flash Mobs of the last year…starting first with the now famous “Sound of Music” in [...]
Posted in It's the People! on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: Farm House Natural Cheeses/Debra Amrein-Boyes and George Boyes (and bovine friend)
The “Queen of Cheese” (pictured above) is on the cover of Granville magazine this month, (Fall 2008 Issue). These free magazines are available all round the Lower Mainland. (I picked my copy up at Robson Capers downtown.)
This article is for cheese-lovers and/or those about to become “cheese-lovers.” I [...]
Posted in It's the People! on September 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Photo: Martha Bowen, founder and CEO of Latin Organics, fair trade coffee company
Photographer: Paul Joseph for Canadian Immigrant magazine September 2008 issue
If this woman looks familiar, it’s because she, once-upon-a-time, worked at West Vancouver Capers, first as “staff, and later as an entrepreneur offering samples of fair trade, organic coffee–her company’s own, imported from Columbia.
The woman is Martha [...]
Posted in It's the People! on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Photo: Diane Latimore aka the “Fish Maestro”
All you fish fans out there! Our “Fish Maestro” Diane Latimore, (previously at West Van Capers for 16 years until Wild Oats merger with Whole Foods moved her to Park Royal) is NOW moving back again to Capers. But, this time her location will be in downtown Vancouver, Capers Kitsilano (Whole Foods) store.
Tomorrow, April 12th, is [...]
Posted in It's the People!, Photos on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Forwarded by Adam of “Them Apples” fame:Photographs by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio from the book Hungry Planet.
FAMILIES round the world photographed with the food they consume in an AVERAGE week:
Japan : The Ukita family of Kodaira City
Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or $317.25
Italy : The Manzo family of Sicily
Food expenditure for one [...]
