The Flying Pig (by Stacey Robinsmith)

It’s time for the weekly speedlink here on Beyond the Rhetoric. Helping us get over the hump day blahs is Stacey Robinsmith and his gastronomic adventures at The Flying Pig in Olympic Village. I’m particularly drawn to the Happy Hour specials myself, since I think with both my stomach and my wallet. Looks like I’m ready to indulge in yet another poutine the next time I’m in that part of town.

If you’d rather stay home and cook for yourself, Krista Ewert shared a great baked lamb recipe with tomatoes and rosemary. Dishes like this are perfect for the colder winter months when I’m just looking for a big bowl of comfort food to fill my stomach. To be fair, Krista is borrowing this recipe from The Kitchen Diaries, but this British classic will certainly warm you up when the mercury drops.

When it comes to cocktails, I’m more inclined to order something refreshing with a hint of citrus. That’s part of the reason why the Thyme of Your Life cocktail described by Leslie Rossi sounds like it’d be my kind of drink. There’s lemon juice, gin, thyme-infused simple syrup, and some fresh thyme too. You can surely find the “thyme” to indulge in this simple cocktail, right?

Heading out of the kitchen and back into the real world, Joyce Lam shares her review of the Cannibal Cafe in Downtown Vancouver. Despite its name, the Cannibal Cafe thankfully does not serve any actual human meat (as far as we know), instead offering what they call “Cannibal” wings, a massive “Bacon Bad” burger, and some particularly large onion rings. That’s some awfully dense-looking batter if you ask me.

And finally, we stop focusing on the growing size of my stomach and approach a more serious topic with author and entrepreneur Seth Godin. He explains to us that “getting ahead” may be quite different from what it means to be “doing well.” If you find yourself spending too much time trying to keep up with the Joneses rather than simply being happy with what you are accomplishing yourself, you may be going about it the wrong way. You don’t need to “get ahead” in order to “do well.”