Take your temperature
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are a couple of physical and tactile tests that you can do to check if your expensive strip loin […]
Fun food words: cobblers, betties, slumps, grunts
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the height of summer, strawberry shortcake showcases majestic June and July berries, but late summer and autumn offer delicious […]
Don’t be fooled: cooking fresh food takes time
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs fall weather trundles in, I find myself doing a lot more cooking — and a lot more complicated cooking. […]
Get ready to do some canning
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhile canning and preserving, techniques and methods that are often thought of as fall activities when the growing season has […]
Montreal’s Bar St. Denis: a superb visit
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt rarely happens that you have a perfect restaurant and dining experience. Or even near-perfect. In my time visiting restaurants […]
Alma Snackbar & Grocery Rogersville NB
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe idea of a hidden gem is something of a convenient myth and one possessed of a certain charm and […]
Natural-wine hotspots in the Nation’s capital
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSeveral casual-upscale restaurants and wine bars in the heart of Ottawa and Gatineau feature menus that showcase the distinctive qualities […]
Fresh figs for fall
Reading Time: 3 minutesFresh figs are a delicious and nutritious fruit that fly under the radar in comparison to their dried counterparts. Historically, […]
A bit about … harissa
Reading Time: 2 minutesI thought we’d take a look at harissa, a spice paste found widely in Middle East cookery. There are several […]
No to ‘Murrica: delicious Ontario Coronation grapes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis time of the year, I dive into Concord grapes … but wait! There’s a variety called the Coronation grape […]
Coffee culture is robust — and ancient
Reading Time: 3 minutesCoffee shops are everywhere, the good and the merely mediocre — McDonald’s coffee, among the latter, is still much, much […]
Fruit arcana: raspberries are “caneberries”
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are seeing some nice plump Ontario raspberries, or will be very soon. More than even fresh local strawberies, I […]
Blueberry clafoutis and ratios
Reading Time: 2 minutesMaking bread was my first foray into a long-time love of not only food history but some of the science […]
Les brumes du coude Moncton
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe name of the French/Acadian restaurant in Moncton is catchy, multi-layered and allusive: roughly translated as the “mists of the […]
Nostra Cucina = Veal Parm
Reading Time: 2 minutesVisit Nostra Cucina for their ordering procedures … ***** Nostra Cucina31 Manitou DriveKitchener, ON N2C 1K9(519) 748-0504nostracucina.com [Previously published]A good […]
