The good news: Sheila is now working full time.  The bad news: We don't have as much time to go out for lunch anymore (since she's on midnights and is usually asleep while all the lunch specials winnow away).  But, we are going to make an effort to put the podcast out at least bi-weekly, and we recently took a trip to Toronto!

• Not Just Noodles ((416) 960-8898, 570 Yonge St., Toronto ON) - http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/10/133935/restaurant/Downtown-University-of-Toronto/Not-Just-Noodles-Toronto
• Big Daddy's Crabshack & Oyster Bar - ((416) 599-5200, 212 King Street West, Toronto ON) - http://www.bigdaddys.ca/

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Welcome readers of the out standing webcomic Red String!  We recently started advertising, and Red String was our maiden voyage into the world of ads through Project Wonderful. 

This weeks episode is a review of the fancy sushi chain Ichiban and another volume of the Oishinbo series.  Photos to come!

• Ichiban Sushi House Canada http://www.ichibansushi.com/
• Oishinbo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oishinbo
• Fish, Sushi and Sashimi @ Library Thing - http://www.librarything.com/work/7859273

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Ah, a new year, and hopefully a good one for our listeners and us. 

The Dubliner (1121 Dundas Street East, Whitby ON) - http://dubliner.ca/home.html

Shake, Rabble, Roll (939 Dundas St . W.  Whitby ON) - http://shakerabbleroll.com/

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Our apologies to our listeners for giving them a rerun this week, but we didn't get a chance to record.  So, since podbean seems to have lost a lot of our earlier episodes, this is the one that started it all!  Picture lovingly ripped off of Black Bear's facebook site:

• Black Bear Burritos - http://www.blackbearburritos.com
• Black Bear on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=132220840533
• Julia's Pepperoni Rolls - http://www.pepperonirolls.com
• The Weedhawks - http://www.myspace.com/weedhawks

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This week's episode is a day early for Halloween!  We discuss the delicious food at a reputedly haunted pub, Halloween's origins and different foods associated with it as well as other holidays that offer food to the dead.  More pictures to come!

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Happy Thanksgiving, Fellow Canadians!

This week's episode covers another installment of Oishimbo (this time an overview of Japanese cuisine), and reviews of a local Italian bakery and the Moon Festival offerings of Mandarin Buffet (pictures coming of the later as soon as they're off Tracy's phone).

• Oishimbo - Japanese Cuisine - http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/05/13/oishinbo-a-la-carte-1-japanese-cuisine/
• The Baker's Table (227 Bloor Street E, Oshawa ON, 905-435-1036) - http://www.yelp.ca/biz/bakers-table-oshawa
• Mandarin Buffet - http://www.mandarinbuffet.com/main.asp

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Pictures will be forthcoming - but here is out episode about a small but amazing fried chicken chain in Ontario - Chick N' Joy.  We also talk a bit about the origins of fried chicken and why it is associated with certain demographics...

• Chick N' Joy - http://chicknjoy.com/
• Food for Thought: Race, Region, Identity, and Foodways in the American South by Beth A. Latshaw - http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/southern_cultures/v015/15.4.latshaw.html
• Soul Food - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_food

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This week's episode talks about Kitchen Con by Trevor White, restaurant reviewing, 40 Creek Double Barrel Reserve and a bunch of other topics.  We also went back to Azian, and had their house fried rice - expensive but SOOOOO good for a treat!

• Kitchen Con by Trevor White - http://www.kitchencon.com/index.htm">http://www.kitchencon.com/index.htm
• Glass House Grill - http://www.theglasshousegrille.com/
• Michelin Stars - http://www.michelinguide.com/us/index.html
• Ratatouille - http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/ratatouille/
• Zagat Guide - http://www.zagat.com/
• Lancaster PA Couple Arrested For Not Tipping - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6637437/Couple-arrested-over-theft-for-refusing-to-tip-in-restaurant.html
• Azian - http://www.azian.ca/
• 40 Creek Double Barrel Reserve - http://www.canadianwhisky.org/reviews/forty-creek-double-barrel-reserve-40-alc-vol.html
• 100 mile diet episode - http://zweifatchicks.podbean.com/2009/06/22/ep-7-take-two-100-mile-diet/
• canola/rapeseed - http://www.grainscanada.gc.ca/rapeseed-colza/rcm-mrc-eng.htm

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This week's episode covers a favourite of all school age people, whether you're going to kindergarden or college - CEREAL!  We discuss healthy vs. sugary cereal, The Road To Wellville and how cold cereals were invented and a certain cereal bar that seems like a hippy/beatnik place but has a very different agenda behind it.  Enjoy!

• For more cute pics of The Little Beasts frolicking in cereal boxes, check out their website: http://www.littlebeasts.com/boston-terrier-photos/boston-terrier-cereal-killers.html
• Breakfast Around The World - http://ravenclawgirl.veoc.net/HouseElves/he_breakfast.htm
• John Harvey Kellogg - http://naturalhealthperspective.com/tutorials/john-kellogg.html
• The Road To Wellville - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville_(film)
• Cereality (locations around the US) - http://www.cereality.com/main.php
• So.Zo (473 High St., Morgantown WV - affiliated with the Chestnutridge Church, who openly opposes gay marriage) - http://sozo-morgantown.net/

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We have a quite a potpourri episode for you today.  Happy Labour/Labor Day!  First, two local restaurant reviews: The Bull Dog Pub and Gold Boat Fish & Chips (that we so erroniously called Golden Sail - sorry!!).  Then we move on to discuss another Oishimbo A La Carte Manga - Ramen and Gyoza are the topic of this edition.  Enjoy and have a great long weekend!

• The Bull Dog Pub (600 Grandview Drive S., Oshawa ON) - http://www.thebulldogpuboshawa.ca/
• Gold Boat Fish & Chips (283 Dean Ave, Oshawa ON)- http://www.canpages.ca/page/ON/oshawa/gold-boat-fish-and-chips/5166427.html
• Oishimbo - Ramen & Gyoza - http://www.comicbookbin.com/oishinboalacarte003.html
• Maus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus

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