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Experiencing local food is an essential part of being in a new destination — the mortar that binds the many pieces of the travel experience.  For this and other reasons, I love to visiting markets around the world.   This is, however, the first visit to a farmer’s type market in the middle of a cold Canadian winter, so let me show you what this looks like when it’s -20 C outside.

While visiting out father in Winnipeg this past winter, my brother and I decided to spend a few hours at “The Forks“.  Anyone who’s been to Winnipeg will know the important context of these words.  “The Forks” refers to the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, …

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