As a red-blooded Canuckistanian gal, I get the occasional craving for that wholly Canadian of treats, the butter tart. I used to make butter tarts fairly often as a kid because they were my Dad’s favourite treat, but I can’t actually recall making a batch since I moved out of my parents’ house in 1987. [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2008’
I'll See Your Organic Free-Range Chicken and Raise You a Tin of Lamb Mince
While the name Delia Smith is familiar to me, I’ll have to admit that I’m not especially familiar with her cookbooks. Given the recent fuss about her newest cookbook How To Cheat at Cooking, I sort of assumed she was one of those slack-assed Rachel Ray types with the canned goods and bagged greens, teaching [...]
Green & Black's Hot Chocolate = Love in a Cup
Regular readers will know that I’m not much of a fan of huge corporations and the majority of products they sell. I prefer to support companies and businesses that make real food, and who have ethics and integrity. The problem is, small companies with ethics and integrity tend not to be able to compete with [...]
The Real Food Revival
Three years is such a short time in the grand scheme of things, but in the publishing world, it can be an eternity. Books come and books go, and a lot of great books don’t get the publicity they deserve. Which is likely why I was able to find Real Food Revival by Sherri Brooks [...]
The Real Food Dilemma
I haven’t had time in the past week to talk about the Michael Pollan lecture. Mostly, I think, because it’s wasn’t actually that inspiring. It wasn’t bad, don’t get me wrong, he just didn’t say much of anything new. The brief hour started with Pollan reading an excerpt from In Defense of Food, then being [...]
No Local Food for Local People
There’s always a lot of talk in the local and/or organic food movements about how local farmers just can’t keep up with the demand – that there’s just not enough local and organic produce to go around. I don’t know if the same system is in place here in Canada, but in the US at [...]
