Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe colour and shape of these pattypans are phenomenal. When I purchased them from the Kitchener Market, the vendor had […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVia Vine Routes magazine, here’s a cross-county check-up on some interesting and unique craft beers: Barrel Heart Brewing, DundasBicycle Craft […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesTourage is the process, a French culinary technique (where else?), for making the delectable puff pastry, the super-flakey pastry that […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesFromagerie coopérative St-Albert ships cheese curds as far away as Japan, Barbados and Abu Dhabi. It’s a small village business […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe versatile egg plays an important role in an incredibly wide range of cuisines from around the world. That includes […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you have one of these cluttering up a kitchen drawer, it could be something of an antique, a tool […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s a blend of hot and cold, of smooth and sharp, of rich, creamy butteriness and acidity that is one […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesPétillant naturel, or, cutely, “pét-nat,” is naturally sparkling wine, if translated. It’s a sort of au courant wine — and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesBecause it doesn’t use a bacterial culture or rennet (an enzyme), ricotta cheese is technically a “dairy product,” but it’s […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesDrawing on a lot of research and reading – and using sustainable farming-pioneer Joel Salatin as his north star – […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is little else better than slathering good, fresh butter on good, fresh bread. It is its essentiality, its long, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesLittle-known haskap berries grow on a globe-shaped deciduous bush that can reach about two metres in height. The fruit the […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesHarissa [hah-REE-suh] I thought we’d take a look at harissa, a spice paste found widely in Middle East cookery. There […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesYou might say that a recent Saturday collaboration between chefs Chris Pearson and Nouk Couturier-Bernard was nothing short of a […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA breakfast favourite, Eggs Benedict is one of those food phrases with a dubious origin and namesake. They are, of […]