I've told you about my friend Leona many times before. She has figured large in my life and is one of those lifelong friends that we all love and cherish. She is the same age as Todd, which makes her about 80, so a fair bit older than myself, but as in love, age is only a number. We hit it off from the start and still do. I have had many women in my life who have influenced me culinarily speaking and Leona was one of them. She may not know it, but she taught me a lot through the years and shared a lot of really delicious recipes with me that were old family favourites in her family. (She is from New Brunswick, and I am from Nova Scotia.) Wee are both maritimers, which is probably a huge part of the reason we gravitated towards each other in the first place. There is always a special kinship which is shared amongst Maritimers. The Maritime provinces have traditionally been some of the poorest provinces in Canada, ...