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I read somewhere recently that there was an article about Steven Page from the band BNL at some point in Wine X Magazine so I loooked it up.
It’s from a few years ago.

Here’s the story.
by Bob Blumer
Magazine Issue: U.S. Vol. 4.3

“The usual drill for my Wine X celebrity cover stories is that the interviewee comes to my house, I cook dinner and he or she plunders my wine collection. So when Steven Page, lead singer of The Barenaked Ladies, invited me to sample his cooking and drink his wine, how could I refuse — even if he does live in a foreign, snow-bound country, 3,000 miles from my comfortable perch below the Hollywood sign.”

“A week after receiving the invitation, I embarked for Toronto and was met by a midwinter blizzard. An hour later the reception was much warmer as I was invited into Steven’s tastefully furnished, albeit modest-by-rock-star-standards, house. Steven, equally as unrock-star-like in his thick black framed glasses, tended to a pan of scalloped potatoes as he introduced me to his wife Carolyn, his two young boys, and to Steven Duffy, leader of the ’80s British band Tin Tin, known for their classic hit “Kiss Me.” Duffy was visiting from London for a couple of weeks, to co-write the forthcoming BNL album with Page. Over the course of the evening, the four of us feasted on a seemingly bottomless tin of 0setra caviar, a bottle of Schramsberg’s J Schram that I’d lugged with me, a magnum of Gosset 1989 Champagne, seared ahi tuna served with the aforementioned potatoes and a gloriously stinky collection of French cheese — all served with wines from Steven’s carefully assembled and very rock star-like 300 bottle temperature controlled walk-in wine cellar. The atmosphere was so homey and the host so relaxed, that as dinner started, I had to remind myself that I was there on a mission.”