With the autumn harvest of regional foods behind us and the fresh sprouting of spring gardens still months away, it’s time to embark on a harvest of a different sort – the culling of good Canadian food writing to sustain a restless mind through the winter months. Or, if you find yourself in the throes […]
We all know certain foods taste wonderful, but we rarely take the time to consider why they taste this way – the saltiness of your favourite potato chip, the spicy tingle of a curry, or the pleasant bitterness of coffee. Not to mention the flip side of the flavour equation and those foods we can’t […]
When it comes to learning, there is no better way to make things stick than to have fun while doing it. Clovermead Apiary, just north of Aylmer in Elgin County, has taken their role as an educator about bees and honey very seriously while having loads of fun along the way. With honey running through […]
Adam Gopnik is an American who has made a career of writing essays about France, mostly for The New Yorker and in his best-selling memoir, Paris to the Moon. His latest book, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food, tackles one of France’s most endearing subjects – its cuisine. Gopnik introduces […]
With Mother’s Day and Father’s Day on the horizon, some parents may be treated to a special meal prepared lovingly, but not so expertly, by their children – say a misshapen smiley face pancake with a strawberry nose, chocolate chip eyes, and whipped cream hair for breakfast. But we all know, for the balance of […]
Chopsticks are the gentle cutlery. Choosing them for a meal means relinquishing the more violent actions of stabbing with fork tines and slicing with knife blades. Like surgery, using chopsticks involves delicate procedures and pinpoint accuracy to placidly move morsels of food to the mouth. Western utensils seem to be designed for an aggressive contact […]
Street food in North America has been given a gourmet facelift over the past few years. No longer a venue for hot dogs alone, vendors selling from sidewalk carts and mobile trucks have gained fame and fortune with non-traditional street food menus. Documented in scrapbook-style, Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant, […]
As Ontario pork producers, Martin and Teresa Van Raay have pledged an oath – to sell the pig, the whole pig, and nothing but the pig – by taking their already-successful pig farm and adding a new business approach by delivering whole, half, and quarter pigs to end customers. It is a unique concept that […]
David Sax is a Toronto-born, Montreal-educated author who currently resides alongside the most successful delicatessens in New York. The number of delis in New York has been dwindling – numbering close to two thousand at its zenith in the 1930’s, decreasing to 150 in 1960, and currently home to only a few dozen – and […]
There are few products that create a more memorable culinary image than a whole roasted turkey glistening with golden skin at the Thanksgiving dinner table. For over 60 years, Hayter’s Farm in Dashwood has done its part filling holiday platters with these traditional birds. In fact, Tradition is a word imprinted on their logo and […]