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If you鈥檙e in need of quick dinner for two, don鈥檛 head to a fast-food restaurant with a drive-through. Instead, take a trip to your local supermarket or seafood store and purchase fresh B.C. seafood.

Dear Eric: What is a prostitute鈥檚 dinner? Have you heard of the term? Is it universal? Are there common components? I only heard of it once, when my Japanese daughter-in-law served it to me.

Dear Eric: I am puzzled by the ubiquitous use of white rice when 鈥� I believe 鈥� brown rice is more nutritious, supplying minerals where the white version does not.

Any way you slice it, apple or pumpkin pie are bound to be on the dessert table at many Thanksgiving feasts. Here are recipes for both, plus pastry, to dazzle your guests.

My wife Cheryl came home from work the other day, walked into our house and said: 鈥淚t聽smells like Thanksgiving in here.鈥� I agreed and we both knew why.

Dear Eric: Do you have a good turkey-soup recipe? Richard Dear Richard: Thanksgiving is next weekend and many folks will have leftover turkey they can make soup with.

I enjoy learning about the history of foods and how some recipes got their quirky names. That inquisitiveness was sparked again on a rainy day last week, when I聽decided this was an ideal time to聽bake cookies.

According to the Old Farmer鈥檚 Almanac, this year the fall equinox, in聽our time zone, begins Thursday at 7:21 a.m. To聽me, that鈥檚 also the official start of 鈥渓et鈥檚 make soup season.

Touch of Japan makes its way to Victoria cuisine in this mild chili

When I was growing up on the Prairies, suppertime was a mad dash for my mom. Once home from work, she had to somehow whip up a meal for my three brothers and me, not to mention her husband.