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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁
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food columnist for CBC-KW | freelancer elsewhere | Canadian | promiscuous eater | effervescent | cat pillow | equal opportunity buttertartist and apple fritterian with an art history degree.

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · May 2
Welcome, my lovelies. I've misplaced my welcome post (prolly under a cat or a pile of books), so, here's a new one.

I'm a food writer, omnivorously rambling here in Waterloo Region (Canada).

My posts are disparate, and range from current affairs to art to food to whatever's happening in my life.
Two maple leaf-shaped sugar cookies, flooded with red icing. They sit on a fancy, embossed white plate, next to a rather utilitarian red tea mug.
cardamomaddict.bsky.social
36 years ago today.

Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
December 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
cardamomaddict.bsky.social
For CBC's Make the Season Kind campaign, I focussed on student food insecurity, and learned about WLU's programmes, and chatted with 2 lovely students 5th yrs about what's happening in their kitchens. Plus, there's a recipe!

#MTSK #Students #Recipes #FoodSky

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A bucket of scapes with an explainer at the Distro: (garlic scapes like garlic & asparagus had a baby! Great in stir fries or roasted! Fresh from our garden!) Tables, shelves, and mini fridges of food at the weekly Distro The Food Justice Garden: raised beds with with various herbs and veggies growing. Peanut Sesame noodles made with leftover pork, roasted courgettes, onions, on spaghettini, topped with blanched baby bok choi and sliced chillies.
December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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pauljholden.com
first time in my life I've understood the phrase "YASS QUEEN!"*

(*I may have misunderstood the phrase)
December 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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alexbozikovic.bsky.social
My obituary for Frank Gehry:

www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and...
Frank Gehry, legendary architect of some of world’s most iconic buildings, dies at 96
Gehry defined his own idiosyncratic path in Toronto, Los Angeles and around the world
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
cardamomaddict.bsky.social
And here's the video of those fine fellows at Twin City Harmonizers, harmonizing.

The group's been doing a cappella barbershop for about 80 years!

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
December 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
We remember Christmas Carol bc it is one of the most adaptable and frequently adapted stories from the 19th century, but the prose of the original is really quite extraordinary.
kerria.bsky.social Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 2d
‘I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. ‘I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?’

~Jacob Marley
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
#PhantomsFriday
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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It's CBC's Make the Season Kind Campaign and it's Kitchener's annual Christkindl Market!

I was half a block from the studio, after finishing my column, and heard the Twin City Harmonizers singing O Holy Night (my fave hymn to sing and hear). Ran back to snap this shot.

#MakeTheSeasonKind #MTSK
Downtown Kitchener this morning as the sun rises over the horizon, casting a golden light. King street has been blocked off for the Christkindl Market, and the little huts have been set up for venors. On the left of the street is the CBC Make The Season Kind van. Across from it are the Twin City Harmonizers singing. No, I didn't video it as I missed the start.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Actual Soviet poster about achieving the five-year plan in four years, just in case anyone wanted to know the origins of that famous example in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Yakov Guminer, 2 + 2, plus workers' enthusiasm = 5, 1931
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
cardamomaddict.bsky.social
It was a fun, but long day. At least this was my waiting room for one of my interviews :)
a pastry case filled with cakes and cupcakes and pastries and things.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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A sneak peek at tomorrow's food column. It's part of the Make the Season Kind campaign, and I talk to people doing good things.

Tomorrow at 7:40 am EST (GMT-5)

89.1 FM in Waterloo Region, Guelph, & Wellington County

Or online: buff.ly/2TEPmBp (set region to Kitchener-Waterloo)
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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When you're Zoom interviewing a lovely (& somewhat influential person) and the first thing she says after hello (& realises your bg is your actual cookbook library) is "I have those books!" and then you spend 10 minutes talking about Nigella and Edna before you get to the actual interview.
My heaving cookbook shelves with my stuff on them -- cards, glasses, salt pig with catnip toys, a mug saying "diva" holding pens, a happy, fat Buddha statue.
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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robsonfletcher.com
The United States and Canada have some unbelievably beautiful national parks, and if you want to visit them as an international tourist next year, one country will charge you extra, while the other will offer free admission.
US hikes national park fees for foreigners to put 'American families first' 7 days ago Osmond Chia Business reporter Getty Images People take photos from Glacier Point with Half Dome in the background at Yosemite National Park. A man in a red shirt is standing at the edge of a popular photo spot with is arms spread out. Free admission and discounted overnight stays with Parks Canada The Canada Strong Pass is back for the holidays and summer 2026! The Government of Canada is offering free admission and a 25% discount on fees for camping and overnight stays from: December 12, 2025 to January 15, 2026 inclusive June 19 to September 7, 2026 inclusive Regular fees apply from January 16 to June 18, 2026 inclusive.
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I’m always reminded of my book buying (& storing) hero, Bruno Schröder, when I hear such stories:

bookstr.com/article/70k-...
70k Books Found In Hidden Library In This Germany Home!
An 80-year-old German man lived every book lovers fantasy! Over his lifetime, this recluse collected and stored over 70k books in a hidden library! And did we mention, he didn’t tell anyone about it?
bookstr.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social
I kind of feel like Claudia Black saying she had to quit AHSOKA after the first season because Disney were paying her so little it would have cost her money to keep performing in it is something we should pay more attention to. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/a...
‘Ahsoka’ Actress Claudia Black Details Why She Exited Season 2 Over Pay: “Something Needs to Change”
Black, who played Nightsister Klothow in the 'Star Wars' series, also gets candid about the challenges of working in Hollywood as a woman, specifically a single mother.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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akurjata.ca
Honestly, this applies to pitching stories to reporters as well, esp the get to the point part
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
cardamomaddict.bsky.social
Really good advice. Esp about the weight issue.
December 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.3157 is here to help
Two bunnies place a tiny winter cap and blanket over a small bird with a broken wing. They are in a desolate woodland in early winter, and the bird should probably be migrating soon
December 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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reuters.com
Once-in-a-lifetime bloom: rare palms in Rio de Janeiro flower before dying reut.rs/4pyBFkF
Once-in-a-lifetime bloom: rare palms in Rio de Janeiro flower before dying
A golden cascade of Talipot tree blossoms has captivated Rio de Janeiro as spring draws to a close, marking the first and last bloom of these palm trees decades after they were brought from South Asia by renowned landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.
reut.rs
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
cardamomaddict.bsky.social
C is for Cookie! That's good enough for me!

If you missed Friday's column, complete with tips and tricks to help you bake better cookies, you can listen to it here!

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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It is one of the most iconic portraits of the 20th century.
The portrait has appeared on stamps and on the British £5 banknote.
And it was taken by Canada's greatest portrait photographer at Parliament Hill.
This is the story of The Roaring Lion.

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Black and white portrait photograph of Winston Churchill wearing a dark suit with bow tie, pocket square, and pocket watch chain. He has a stern expression, looking directly at the camera, with dramatic lighting casting shadows on his face and the paneled background. Taken by Yousuf Karsh in 1941.
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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lolennui.bsky.social
to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
venuslovesrats.bsky.social 🧡🐀 venus 🐀❤️ @venuslovesrats.bsky.social · 10d
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
A tiny polished wooden carving of a rounded rodent with detailed ears, paws, textured fur and glossy beady eyes resting on a light surface. Netsuke is a type of miniature ornament initially used to secure containers or kimonos. This sculpture is 2.5cm tall, tiny! 🥹
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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rlspang.bsky.social
I feel this SO MUCH. Being a History professor has allowed me to live amid the little guys and the details, even as I write about structures and institutions. The latter can’t be fathomed without the former
lolennui.bsky.social Amy Ash @lolennui.bsky.social · 9d
to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
venuslovesrats.bsky.social 🧡🐀 venus 🐀❤️ @venuslovesrats.bsky.social · 10d
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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financialtimes.com
UK pension funds dump US equities on fears of AI bubble on.ft.com/4itDmgg
UK pension funds dump US equities on fears of AI bubble
Public and private-sector funds concerned over market’s growing concentration in a small number of tech stocks
on.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Take over threats.
Tariffs.
Now MAGA has woken Canada’s sleeping giant: Franklin.
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM