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| Fresh Food | Manni Olive Oil, S.A. Wines, |
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| Two quick notes of thanks to Gremolata readers this week. First, thank you for your emails on cardoons, other exotic ingredients and independent gourmet stores outside of Toronto. We're busy compiling the results (still time to send in more to info@gremolata.com) and will publish them in the next Gremolata Update. Second, thank you to all the attendees of our first Gremolata Wine and Cheese tasting at Cobalt. We had a great time sipping RKW Imports' selection of wines, munching on Andy Shay's expertly matched Canadian farmhouse cheeses and chatting with connoisseur extraordinaire, Gina Mallet. Stay tuned for information on our next event! - Malcolm Jolley, Publisher | ||
Fresh Food At €40 for a 100ml bottle  (or about $20 Canadian an ounce), Manni olive oils rank as the world's most expensive. Naturally, Gremolata's Malcolm Jolley was excited to attend a recent tasting of the Tuscan extra virgin olive oil presented by the Cookbook Store and featuring Armando Manni himself...[more]. Long-time Gremolata readers will have been delighted to see James Chatto's recent piece featuring the Cheese Boutique in the current Toronto Life, which included mentions of Le Gamin, Vacherin Mont d'Or, and other great cheeses. | Fine Wine You read it hear first, folks. South African wines are taking over. According  to Wine.co.za, South African wine exports to Canada rose by 40% in 2004 (and exports to the US by 60%). No doubt spurred on by wines like the 2003 Goats do Roam in Villages and Fairview Viogner...Speaking of which, Gremolata is still randomly giving away two free tickets to the Wines of South Africa Tasting every week this month to subscribers, courtesy of the Wines of South Africa. check your email to see if you won. Last week's winner was Michelle P. from Toronto. The tasting will feature over 200 South African labels...[more].Quick Info: When: March 23, 7 to 10PM. Where: St. Lawrence Hall, 157 King St. E., Toronto How Much: $35 ($30 for S.A. Wine Club members) Contact: info@gremolata.com | Gourmet Media Natalie MacLean may well be Canada's most famous wine writer. Winner of numerous awards, including a James Beard and a World Food Media award, her website and newsletter, NatDecants.com, is read by thousands of wine lovers across  the country and around the world. Gremolata caught up with Natalie and asked how it all happened...[more]. Only weeks since being embroiled in a credibility scandal (see Gremolata Update 10) Michelin has announced plans to publish a Red Guide to New York City...[more from The New York Times]. |
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Fresh Food Glemolata requests your help: become a Gremolata P.I. (Purveyor Inquisitor) and send your gourmet food sightings to info@gremolata.com. In particular, we're looking for sightings of cardoons in GTA stores. This silvery cross between celery and artichoke makes a fantastic soup, a wonderful gratin and should be coming into season (at least it would if we all lived within 50 miles of the Mediterranean). Gremolata last saw  cardoon stalks at Fiesta Farms on Christie about five years ago. Please send us any interesting foods you come across in the next few weeks and we'll feature your finds in our Fresh Food section. We're also looking for interesting independently owned food shops, especially those outside of downtown Toronto. Fresh in Flesherton is a great example. | Fine Wine The Goats are back in Ontario! The  2003 Goats do Roam in Villages (LCBO# 566851) is the slightly more sophisticated cousin of the very popular Goats do Roam Red featured in Gremolata last December. In keeping with the Wines of Charles Back's Rhône theme, the Goats do Roam in Villages is a step up from the Red, much like a Rhône Villages is to a simple Rhône. At $14.95 a bottle, this label offers exceptional value and is sure to sell quickly. Praise for the Goats do Roam in Villages has been quick: Rod Phillips gave it a four-star rating in the latest winecurrent.com newsletter, noting "It's got good fruit, good structure, good everything, and it gets a very good rating for its price." The Wine Spectator featured it as a "Wine of the Week" and gave it a 90...[more]. | Gourmet Media Anthony Bourdain called Gina Mallet's Last Chance to Eat: The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World "an invaluable antidote to the dark forces who want to deprive us of the good stuff and an acknowledgement of the pleasures of a few simple, good things." This week, in the second i nstalment of Gremolata's look at Mallet and her part memoir part expose, we caught up with the author to ask her a few questions about some of those good things and the state of taste today...[more]Gourmet Media Extra: David Leite has published an excellent in-depth interview with Paula Wolfert on his site, leitesculinaria.com. |
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