Wow! How fun reading your responses – thanks for everyone who wrote in and participated, especially those who aren’t even able to pick up tickets in TO! Ok – we had way too many responses to actually try out the hangover cures (and if we had we would probably need to be hospitalized for alcohol [...]

Melissa Craig of Bearfoot Bistro in Whistler was crowned top chef over seven competitors from across Canada. The lead up to the final involves iron chef type competitions in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, Montreal and Halifax. The winners from every city come together in Toronto for three days of competition and foodie events. I attended [...]

The iconic image of Valentine’s day is a male suitor with a huge satin bowed box of chocolate under one arm off to woo his true love. Do you actually know anyone who has ever received or bought a heart shaped box of chocolates? They must be out there because they make them every year [...]

Ice Cider is a hot trend for 2008 and just as apples are available across Canada so are the Ice Ciders with many delicious varieties to choose from. As we discovered in an informal test kitchen tasting, picking up just any bottle does not mean you are guaranteed a great quaff. What worked best were [...]

I bear good tidings for foodies on a mediocre Monday. The Women and Wine event at The Fifth Social Club in Toronto Ontario is a fundraising event benefiting Toronto Western Hospital for lupus research and is taking place on February 20th. It is a swanky night of great wine, great food and food and wine [...]

Anne Martin, Sommelier and Canadian Living’s new wine writer, came by today and held a wine tasting in the offices in preparation for an upcoming story. The focus today was on Shiraz (or Syrah depending on where you are in the world). Anne believes that a wine tasting should be fun, accessible and any thing [...]

Friday brought a massive snow storm to Toronto and me to a lunch at the Globe Restaurant on the Danforth in Toronto’s east end. The chefs at the globe created a menu featuring sour cherry products from Cherry Lane farm in Niagara. We were welcomed with a cherry ginger ale (a great idea, I can’t [...]

Have you noticed your local supermarket loaded down with avocados? You can thank the Super bowl for soaring avocado sales. There is more guacamole eaten on super bowl Sunday than any other day of the year. My brother-in-law brought me a molcajete from Mexico, I always make my guacamole in it – it think it [...]