First, an admission. I am not as well-travelled as I’d like to be. While I’ve been to most major cities in the US and Canada, I’ve never been across the big pond. Given my feelings about the environmental impact of travelling for pleasure, not to mention the fact that I just hate the process of [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2007’
100 Miles to Nowhere
If you follow food politics at all, you’re probably aware of the theory that “local is the new organic”. Where we once fought to have food that was pesticide-free, over the past couple of years, what with the attention towards global warming, people have clued in that maybe cutting down on the distance their food [...]
Rocking the Omelette
It’s been a weird week and it’s only Tuesday. Some of you may remember the post I made a few weeks back looking for folks who copy restaurant recipes at home. This was for an upcoming article for the Globe and Mail and they actually interviewed me as well. Today they sent a photographer out [...]
Cravings and Squicks
Warning – this post contains discussion of vomiting. Food, being, ideally, a sensual pleasure, is one of those things that we either really love or really abhor. Individual foods, I mean. As children, we go through phases where we dislike different things, based on taste, texture or smell. As we age, those tastes usually adapt [...]
Just a Little Something
Chocolate amaretto cupcake with amaretto butter cream, garnished with shavings of 85% cacao single-origin Djakarta chocolate.
The Words Author and Great Cook are Not Synonymous
Note to self – check the publication date on books you borrow from the library. Sometimes you just don’t want to go there. This note to self is provoked by a recent library acquisition that wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. The Great Canadian Literary Cookbook, while definitely Canadian, in a way only Canadians can [...]
