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For some inexplicable reason, I’ve been asked to guest-judge at Santropol Roulant’s Iron Chef Cook-Off this Thursday, September 2. I like to eat food, and I think I’m pretty good at it, so maybe that means I’m some kind of expert.

In any event, you should come too, if you happen to be in Montreal. Santropol Roulant, in case you aren’t familiar with it, is a wonderful organization that, among other worthy endeavours, runs a meals-on-wheels service, a bike-repair cooperative and a vegetable garden at McGill University. The bike co-op more or less saved my twelve-speed last summer, and I count many friends among Santropol Roulant’s workers and volunteers. All in all, this is a group worth supporting.

The Iron Chef Cook-Off is a fundraiser that pits several great local restaurants against each other in good-humoured competition. With only a few basic tools and ingredients available-knife, cutting board, oil, salt and pepper, one grain and one special ingredient-each restaurant must prepare a meal using vegetables from Santropol’s Edible Campus garden, with the winner selected by the panel of, uh, esteemed judges. The event is free (it will take place right in the McGill campus garden), beer and food is cheap, and the mighty Pat Jordache will supply late-summer jams. Please do come and watch me eat.

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—The Green Gospel
—Olivia: A Folk Opera
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Tenth Anniversary: Spring

ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

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  • Face the Music

    by Tim Falconer How can someone who passionately loves music also be a terrible singer? Tim Falconer takes up voice lessons—and discovers the surprising science of tone deafness.
  • The Big Job

    by Deni Y. Béchard As a teenager, Deni Y. Béchard went to Vancouver to live with his father, an ex-con with a penchant for telling tall tales. He met a man desperate to forget the past.
  • The Homesickness of Astronauts

    by Johanna Skibsrud "She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon."
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