The Foodie File: Pomegranate Q & A
Q. What part of the pomegranate do you eat? A. You eat the arils. These are the little ruby red pods with a nutty seed in the centre. Eat the whole aril including the seed. Q. How do I open a pomegranate? A. Method1 To get at the fruit some people like to score the [...]
The Foodie File: Pomegranates in Season
I have seen my first Pomegranates, the season has begun! I remember when the pomegranate was an odd foreign creature to the apple and orange palette of the western world predominantly used as a festive centrepiece. In 2004 I threw a very fancy re-launch party for a Persian carpet company in their elegant loft showroom [...]
As predicted, I over did it…
The Gourmet Food and Wine Show has come and gone and was memorable and delicious. We had a great tasting menu cooked by the chefs at The Boiler House in the Distillery District in TO paired with Concha y Toro selection of Chilean Wines. Here is the Menu:
The Foodie File: Seelbach Cocktail
Here is the recipe for the Seelbach Cocktail I had Thursday night. I decided to share so you can have it as your holiday cocktail as well but if it becomes a hit trend of the season I’m taking credit!
The Foodie File: A Weekend of Food and Wine
Today is the first day of the 13th annual Gourmet Food and Wine Expo in Toronto. Purveyors from all over the world are here for the next four days to wine and dine and get as much exposure as they can for their products. My agenda is full – I cannot pack one more event [...]
The Foodie File: Candlefish
Have you ever eaten smelts? I love them and they bring back fond memories for me from when I was a child and my grandfather would take us little girls fishing with him. He would take us out right before sundown; he would bait out lines and let us sit on the dock catching sunfish [...]
The Foodie File: Tracing the Fate of Food; Last Chance to Eat
Gina Mallet does a good job of tracing the fate of food and showing how food is a link to our cultural and well being in her book Last Chance to Eat. Over the last fifty years we have seen a shift in the developed world from locally produced food to large-scale farming enacting grave [...]
The Foodie File: Pasta Lesson
When I came in this morning, Andrew Chase (the food editor at Homemakers magazine) asked me if I could show him how to make cavatelli. He knew my father is from the region in italy where they make this style of pasta and so figured I would know how to make them. Andrew made the [...]
Shedding Light on Diwali
November 9th marks the beginning of the five day festival of Diwali celebrated by Indian Hindus. The festival is marked by lighting up neighborhoods, fireworks and wearing new brightly coloured clothes. It is also marked by the eating of many treats but especially sweets of all kinds,
Made in Canada eh?
Do you know that when you purchase a food product that says product of Canada, it does not mean that the food was grown or even processed here in Canada? Sound crazy? Well it’s true. To advertise food as made in Canada, all that is necessary is that 51% of the production cost was incurred [...]
