Dave Robson 
So, you’ve picked up a barbecue book, you’ve watched the online videos, and you’re raring to start smoking meat. Well, make your foray into southern-style barbecue a little easier with a few tips from Stephen Perrin, one of Canada’s few barbecue masters. Perrin is classically trained in fine dining (and … Read More
Thinking about improving your cocktail game? You won’t get very far without a selection of liqueurs, especially those that feature that most underrated of flavours: bitter. Amaro Lucano What does Amaro Lucano have that all other amaros lack? Royal patronage. Back in 1900, a scant six years after first being … Read More
The DailyXY office received a package from Hershey’s the other day, which could only mean one thing: they really liked our bacon chocolate chip recipe, so they were hoping that we’d do something else fun. And if there’s one thing we’ve always said, it’s that we can be bought with … Read More
You know the drill: it’s Robbie Burns Day. So make some haggis. Or haggis scotch eggs! Anyway, here’s the whisky. Aultmore 12 Year Old Aultmore returned in 2014 as part of Dewar’s Last Great Malts line, and the world is richer for it. Pale straw colour. Notes of honey, citrus, … Read More
“O thou grim, mischief-making chiel, / That gars the notes of discord squeel, / Till daft mankiud aft dance a reel / In gore a shoe-thick; — /Gie a’ the foes o’ Scotland’s weal / A towmond’s Tooth-ache!” – Robbie Burns, “Address to the Tooth-Ache” What makes Robbie Burns beloved … Read More
