Quickly becoming North America's newest super fruit, haskaps are available around the province. See what one central Alberta farmer is doing with his haskap orchard.
Quickly becoming North America's newest super fruit, haskaps are available around the province. See what one central Alberta farmer is doing with his haskap orchard.
Quickly becoming North America's newest super fruit, haskaps are available around the province. See what one central Alberta farmer is doing with his haskap orchard.
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It was a few months back that JoAnne Pearce was feeling the Ice-Olation Blues.
Tired of pandemic lassitude and the ensuing uptick in drinking, the Edmonton-based graphic designer and marketing consultant became entranced with mocktails, non-alcoholic takes on classic cocktails. She began inventing booze-free, Halloween-themed drinks to entertain herself. Pleased with her results, she began uploading the photos onto social media, giving her the dopamine hit she once got from a glass of wine or a highball.
“Getting all of those ‘likes’ on Instagram was my transfer addiction,” jokes Pearce, author of the just-released recipe collection Mock-Ups: Mocktails for Grown-Ups. “I was making these spooky drinks like a Vampire Bloody Mary, or one with a white grape made to look like an eyeball with fennel simple syrup. It hit the point where I was waiting for the work day to end so I could go try the next idea.”
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