Food & Culinary

Apples, Cider, and the Annapolis Valley Harvest Drive into the Annapolis Valley in late September and the smell arrives before the view does. Windfall fruit in the grass, a press running somewhere nearby, the faint sourness of apples that have been sitting in the sun. It is the valley’s busiest agricultural moment of the year,

Why Cold Water Makes Better Seafood The first cold morning on a working wharf in Nova Scotia tends to prompt the same thought in visitors: how does anything live in that. The water is grey, it is roughly four degrees for much of the year, and standing next to it in October is genuinely unpleasant.

Nova Scotia Has a Wine Trail — And It’s Exceptional Tell someone you’re going wine tasting in Nova Scotia and you’ll usually get a pause. The province is known for lobster, fog, and coastline; grapes don’t come up. That reaction is fair enough given how young the industry is, and it’s also increasingly out of

Eating Like a Fisherman: The Dockside Meals Most Tourists Never Find There’s a particular kind of seafood meal in Nova Scotia that never makes it onto a curated list. It happens standing up, usually near a wharf, often out of a cardboard container, occasionally within sight of the boat that landed whatever you’re eating a

The Best Farm-to-Table Experiences in Atlantic Canada “Farm-to-table” gets printed on enough menus that it’s started to lose its meaning — a phrase more than a promise. But in Nova Scotia and the wider Maritimes, the distance between farm and plate is often short enough to measure in kilometres rather than food miles on a

Lobster Season in Nova Scotia: A Guide for Visitors There is a version of eating lobster in Nova Scotia that involves a white tablecloth, a printed menu, and a small silver pick for extracting the claw meat. It’s perfectly fine. The lobster is fresh, the setting is pleasant, and you’ll leave satisfied. And then there’s