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Charlie
Ayers: Chef 2.0It's been a short strange trip from cooking for The Grateful Dead to becoming Google employee number 53. Malcolm Jolley profiles the chef and Food 2.0 author who fuels Silicone Valley and teaches the venture capitalists and techno-geeks how enjoy lunch ...[more]. |
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Asparagus
in SeasonMay is the time for the most delicious lily. Noelle Munaretto looks at all things asparagus related and traces the history of the shoot from ancient Egypt to Bourbon France, with recipe links ...more]. |
Spinyback
Pinot NoirIt had to happen sooner or later: we'd find a 'critter wine' that we actually like. The 2006 Spinyback Pinot Noir is perfectly good and, at a recent tasting, the $18 bottle easily stood up to other pretty label NZ PN's at twice the price ...[more]. |
Good
Food RevolutionItalians eat less pasta, faced with rising grain costs. Eric Schlosser on Burger King's dirty war. Grant Achatz's fight to save his tongue. Tim Horton's timbit nastiness. Rethinking the lemon tart. The new beer is organic. Rob Misfud interviews Hervé This. Plus much more... |
Michael
PollanJust in case you missed it: from Gremolata 168 our exlusive interview with Defence of Food author Michael Pollan. Click here for the interview, or click here to browse Gremolata's archives. |
News
and Notes Vancouver chefs
seem to be taking over Toronto as Robert Clark from C
Restaurant descended on Jamie Kennedy’s Wine Bar this week to promote BC’s
OceanWise program. Meanwhile Rob Feenie
will cook for the
James Beard Dinner on May 21 at
the Drake Hotel. Other hands in the kitchen joining Chef Anthony
Rose for this event include
Pied de Cochon’s Martin Picard and Tobey Nemeth... Speaking of whom,
Toronto foodies received a double hit this week with the news that
Nemeth and partner, Michael Caballo, are taking an extended leave of
absence from JK Wine Bar and The Niagara Street Café, respectively.
The couple plan to drive across Canada, then embark on some kind of
European adventure. It could be Spain, where Caballo has family, or
it could be Italy: either way both are eager to learn more about
curing meat. Celebrity chefs including Claudio Aprile, David Lee,
Guy Rubino, and Marc McEwan will mix cuisine and art for the
2008 Luminato Dinner Series
happening in Toronto June 6-15. Must be spring:
Riverdale Farmer’s Market
opens for its eighth season on May 13, and operates from 3:00 p.m.
to 7:00 p.m. each Tuesday until October 28. The
Kawartha Ecological
Growers Co-op is looking for customers interested in supporting
their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program beginning in
June. The program includes weekly seasonal produce deliveries to
Toronto. Contact farmer Mark Trealout at
kawarthaecogrowers@gmail.com
for more information. |
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2005 Château Pesquié TerrassesAnother "Modern Old-World" red wine from the South of France, the 2005 Château Pesqié Terrasses strays a little from the traditions of its Rhône provenance with a dominance of Cabernet Franc. At $14.95, it's a lovely way to start thinking about summer ...[more]. |
Good Food
RevolutionRamsay in Toronto. The War on Raw Milk. The End of Cauliflower. Food Snob Agony. New New York Sandwiches. LA's hot dogs ...and more. |
Andy
Shay on the "T" WordToronto's cheese guru Andy Shay returns to Gremolata with a report on The Ontario Cheese Society's recent conference. Borrowed from France, does the term Terroir really apply to cheese? Or in North America at all? Andy susses it out ...[more]. |
Whisky
WomanThe powerhouse behind one of North America's biggest whisky shows is a thirtysomething lady from Ottawa. Johanna Ngoh explains how she got hooked on single malts and why she's made it her mission to spread the word on whisky at Spirit of Toronto ...[more]. |
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RampsOntario's brief wild leek season has arrived and Ivy Knight makes a feast (from Gremolata 126) ...[more]. |
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Michael Green "If you only have one chicken dish, why do you need 40 Napa Valley Chardonnays?" Gourmet magazine's wine consultant Michael Green asks some pretty tough questions about wine service in our exclusive Gremolata interview. One of New York City's top wine experts and educators, and founder of Liquid Assets Consulting Group, Green shares his strong opinions on what's wrong with most wine service and offers his easy remedies to restauranteurs, sommeliers and customers alike ...[more]. |
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Urban HarvestOrganic seed seller Colette Murphy's mission is simple but effective: to teach us to grow delicious food in the city ...[more]. |
Zoltan's
Wine CocktailsSommelier Zoltan Szabo turns his attention to mixed winne drinks ...[more]. |
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Food RevolutionIs Jancis Robinson a humble parasite? Is the best foie gras ever ethically raised? Are 30 minute meals ever really 30 minutes? Is El Bulli still the best restaurant in world? Is Michael Pollan bothered? And who has the best food snob kitchen ever? Find out here. |
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Ten
Ways to Improve Your Cooking NowOttawa's urban element team of professional chefs serves up ten simple tricks to bring your cooking up a notch and make your life easier ...[more]. |
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F-O-O-D in Cincinnati Beyond
the great turkey massacre of 1977, Cincinatti cuisine
deserves a second look, says the
Gremotraveler, who
dines among its seven hills
...[more]. |
Château Calissanne 2005 From
Aix-en-Provence comes a "modern-Old-World" red wine with an interesting
blend, value priced at $16.95. Plus: a last chance at a $12.95 Languedoc
gem
...[more]. |
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News & Notes Toronto
food lovers are invited to
The Cheese Boutique at 6PM on Monday, April 21 for the unveiling of (and treats made by)
the 2008 line-up of their Festival of Chefs including
Jamie Kennedy, Massimo Capra, Keith Froggett,
Patrick McMurray, Bruce Woods, Jonathan Gushue, Mike Steh,
Ted
Corrado and Lino Collevecchio. Vancouver Magazine's
Best Restaurant Gold Medal was awarded to
West this week
(click
here for full results). Montreal doctoral student (and
Gremolata contributor) Nathalie Spielmann is circulating a
fascinating survey tied to
thesis, querying the "personality traits of
restaurants" take it here for fun. Slow Food Toronto,
Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, and SeaChoice present
For the
Love of Fish: Celebrating Sustainable Seafood Workshop click
here for details. Next week: OHI Gala Awards results... |
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¡Ola
Chile! Roving celebrity sommelier Zoltan Szabo returns from the vineyards west
of the Andes with dozens of
tasting notes taken on the spot for just
released Chilean wines
...[more]. |
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Best
Butter BetsCan you really believe it's better butter? Journo-chef Ivy Knight conducts the Great Canadian Butter Tasting with a few friends and comes up with some interesting results. Find out if there's a better butter ...[more]. |
Phill'er
Up!Our intrepid Gremotraveler returns with notes from what he calls The City of Foodie Love. It's a tastecentric look at Philadelphia. (And, yes, it includes cheese steak.) ...[more]. |
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La Bastide Blanche BandolIt's a rare treat to find a wine from the celebrated Provençal region of Bandol. This 2004 lives up to the AOC's association with food culture royalty ...[more]e]. |
How to Plan a Wedding DinnerAs the wedding season approaches, expert caterer Tony Loschiavo has seen it all. In an exclusive interview, L'Eat Catering's main man goes through the nuptial do's and don't's, and shares a few horror stories ...[more]. |
News & Notes:
Season two of Laura Calder's 'French
Food at Home' premiered this week on Food Network Canada
(see her interview from Gremolata 118
here). Calder tells Gremolata
that she's pleased with a rework which
stresses Calder's favourite dishes. She's thrown out the script for
a more natural style that compliments her simple but elegant dishes.
"This is how French people actually eat," she explains. | The
Ontario Hostelry Institute has announced their annual list of
Top 30 Under 30. | Ontario's
boutique wineries present
Somewhereness
atat Toronto's
Coupe Space, April 22.
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Good Food RevolutionnKitchen gadgets, Australia's wine drought, return of the microwave: Harold McGee and Mark Bittman weigh in, liquor store archaeology, Mimi Sheraton and Paul Levy debate critique technique, what to eat at Guy Savoy, Paris' rose fever, Robert Parker The Movie, cultivores, omnibores and baggists, Susur Lee to New York andnd more... |
New
NotesZoltan Szabo tastes his way through the latest wines from Legends Estate ...[more]. Browse Zoltan's library of 2008tasting notes at his exclusive page: www.gremolata.com/zoltansnotes.htmtm. |
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Great
Canadian Chefs Conspire Culinarily!What's inspiring the great chefs of Canada? Ivy Knight finds out at a super chef catered dinner in Toronto. Rudy Guo puts together an all-star line-up including Lynn Crawford, Normand Laprise, Michael Stadtländer, Anthony Walsh, Michael Blackie, Robert Clark, Massimo Capra, Brad Long, Patrick McMurray and more... Photo: Ron Turenne |
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Vellend's
Vancouver UpdateRoving writer Eric Vellend returns to the left coast and eats his way through his three favourite Vancouver gustatory themes: coffee, Japanese and Pacific Northwest |
Sugar Off! (We Hope) |
A
Cambodian Chef's OdysseyFrom privilege in Phnom Penh to horror in The Killing Fields to peace in the kitchen in Toronto. Chef Chandra masters his culinary tradition in his new country and works to heal his old one ...[more]. |
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Good
Food RevolutionChatting about books with Grant Achatz and Heston Blumenthal, teenagers tasting wine, K-Paul shot, eating your lawn, Delia Smith, French drinking, MP White and more... |
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Is
Spring Possible?A trip to the Atwater market convinces Nathalie Spielmann that spring will really happen, despite the howling wind and snow outside ...[more]. |
Oysters
and Red WineSommelier Zoltan Szabo calls up oyster expert Patrick McMurray and leads an all star blind taste test: what reds go with oysters? ...[more]. |
- Advertisement -![]() Women and Wine in Sicily with Dr. Linda Bramble. Click here to find out about an Italian food and wine trip of a lifetime for women only, hosted by one of Canada's most celebrated wine experts ...[more]. |
Good
Food RevolutionThe restos of Kabul, the drinks books of Kingsley Amis, the Microplane, being nasty to Nigella the end of the fat food writer? Milk delivery and ...more. |
Lagrange-MonbadonA well made Bordeaux, that's eight years old retailing for $13.95? Amazingly, it hasn't sold out, yet ...[more]. |
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PasquettaPasquetta means "little Easter" in Italian and traditionally takes the form of a picnic the day after the holiday. It's a chance for friends to get together after spending time just with their families. The Pingue family of Niagara (cousins of the prosciutto makers) have brought the tradition over from their family's roots in Abbruzzo at their restaurant Napoli on April 1. Explains Anthony Pingue "This event represents who we are as a restaurant, that is, we believe in keeping the old traditions alive. We've been doing it for seven years and it's one of our most popular nights." Contact Napoli at napolipizzeria@cogeco.net to see a menu or to reserve. |
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The
Montréal Latino ConnectionLatin cuisine's ambassador, Carlos Fuenmayor reports from Montréal ....[more]. |
Montréal
GastronomiqueAfter more than a decade, Malcolm Jolley, goes back to Montréal to cover the Highlights Festival, and eats rather well ...[more]. |
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Good
Food RevolutionThis week: an $11,000 coffee machine, Ruhlman's rant on fat, Prince Charles' rotten veggies, NYC's reservation market and more... |
Jameson's
Irish WhiskeyTired of green or dark brown beer on the 17th? Consider sipping an Irish whiskey. Jameson's is the oldest surviving brand from the country that claims to have invented the stuff. |
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