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Deepa Mehta, The Canada-based filmmaker is now on a whirlwind tour to promote "Water", a film which examines the plight of a group of widows in Benares in the 1930s, across India as well as in the US, days before the Academy Awards ceremony on February 26, where the film is competing in the Best Foreign Language Film category as Canada's official entry.



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A DAY FOR WATER


In British Columbia, finding water is not one of our more pressing concerns. Unfortunately, this is not the case in many other places in the world. As March 22nd is the United Nations’ World Water Day, dozens of restaurants in New York will be participating in The Tap Project, a drive to raise funds to help combat one of the most urgent health crises facing the planet today: a lack of clean drinking water. Dine at any of the restaurants listed on The Tap Project web site and you can donate $1 per person to the cause.


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SILLY WATER

Just when you've decided that you can't stand to see another bloody boutique bottled water on the store shelves, those snarky Australians come out with Another Bloody Bottled Water. You have to be familiar with the Australian lingo to understand that the Australians do not consider the word "bloody" to be quite as offensive as elsewhere, and of course the whole thing is meant to be humourous. However it still doesn't seem as funny as all the products that promote themselves as "oxygen enriched" -- something one does to one's blood stream every time one yawns.

Other waters with equally strange names:

Bling H20

Cloud Juice

Fred

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CHINESE NEW YEARS SPECIALS

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Today we have...

Lions in the Streets




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ON THE NEWSSTAND TODAY

THE LOCAL INK

Tim Pawsey of the Vancouver Courier reports on the Zinfandels of note at the recent Sonoma Wine Festival in Vancouver.

The Globe and Mail's Alexandra Gill looks at Fuel sans the hype and sees it naked.

Mark Laba gets a quick take on Prima Taste. In the Province.

Over at Chowtimes they are getting colourful - Ben and Suanne make blueberry upside down cake and red chicken.



THE OUTSIDE WORLD


Cabel Maxfield Sasser , a blogger from Portland, Oregon thought Vancouver’s Storyeum an example of Canadian weirdness but was impressed with Gyoza Stadium, one of the new food theme parks in Japan that consisted of a similar historical representation of, yes, the Gyoza. … "It’s not a stadium. But imagine, if you will, a very quaint Japanese town in the year 1953. Stone-lined winding alleyways with beat-up posters, tangled wiring, neon signs and lanterns, with classic Japanese 50's music playing from tinny radios. Now imagine that the street is lined with lots and lots of tiny little gyoza restaurants, each serving a different kind of gyoza invented by a different famous chef, each unique, and all made to order. And they have beer."

Another link: http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyo/441/dining.asp


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Time magazine rates love, work, religion, sex, death, taxes and other unavoidable facets of life as if they were entries in a Zagat guide

The Zagat guide to life

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Chicago police slap citation on hot dog seller for lacing his sausages with foie gras.

Enter here for the links to these and other articles

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THE HEAT METER For February 16, 2007
(The most requested information on the site as measured by Google keyword counter)





PEOPLE:

1) Mark Prince, Coffee Geek
2) Nessa Van Bergen
3) Glenys Morgan
4) Tom Doughty, Fuel
5) Jeff Gossett

PLACES:

1) Steveston Pizza
2) Lucky Diner
3) Fetch in Gastown
4) OThai
5) LK Dining Lounge

THINGS:

1) sake kazu
2) Parksville wine shops
3) gluten free products
4) Masquerave at Whistler
5) comfort food in restaurants


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