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Squash: A vegetable that has no business in sport

The attempt to modify the sport of squash by actually using the vegetable instead of a ball and moving outside was a bad idea.

Five will get you five

I like the math, five tacos for $5 (Tax really makes it $5.25). They’re small but look impressiive lined up in a neat row, complete with one-squirt, mini wedges of lime.

Links to food

Hernande'z is great food with better prices. Review by ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ restaurant critic Pam Grant. Discounts have restaurants eating own lunch Report from nytimes.com about price slashing in the U.S.

The man behind Squashman

Squashman, by the way, is Dave (see here) . He's a squash player who has won trophies. I've heard rumours about his squash court prowess, but need to confirm them before saying more.

In (cautious) praise of boxed wine

Boxed wine is slowly winning some grudging respect; it's been doing that for decades. Now, there's a bit of science to help the cause.

A salad kind of guy

I've been to Fifth Street Bar and Grill many times and enjoyed their burgers, fries, ribs, roast chicken (a bit dry sometimes) and pizzas (weird and wonderful).

Signs of food

So, I snap and collect the occasional photograph of food signs. What of it. First of a series. Aboard the Coho ferry , running between Victoria's Inner Harbour and Port Angeles, Washington. I will be silent about the food quality for now.

Major's Corner: Waiter falls out of favour, friend into an abyss

Life inside the club's memorial doors is a kaleidoscope of activity. One day, for instance, after Mrs. Qwackenbush, our pastry chef, provided one of her superb apple crumbles, we gathered in the senior reading room for a little to-ing and fro-ing.

Victoria banished Chinese lepers to island colony

This week in 1895, a reporter with the Daily Colonist accompanied health officials on a visit to D'Arcy Island to expose the hidden world of ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s first West Coast leper colony.

Food inspection reports, Julie and Julia, and bi bim bop

Inspection reports for restaurants all over the Island are posted at the Vancouver Island Health Authority website. You can search by name, or browse by community.