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Fresh Food: Jamie Kennedy, Christine Cushing, David Lee, Marc Thuet Massimo Capra, Donna Dooher, Mathew Sutherland, Jonathan Gushue and Lino Collevecchio have all signed up for the Cheese Boutique's new May tasting series: Festival of Chefs. Each will offer free demonstrations and match their dishes with wines...[more] | Gourmet Media: Dean Tudor supplies Gremolata with seven new food and wine book reviews from his renown World Wine Watch newsletter and website. Tudor gives us his two selections of the month for March and five reviews on books on topics as diverse as the history of the coffeehouse to Cuban cookery to a manual on how to get rid of tough stains...[more] | Gremolata People: |
| Gourmet Media Easter Extra: Nigel Slater's Slow Roast Lamb | ||
Coming Up: Watch for these features in the next few Gremolata Updates: Cremants: the other French Sparklers. A Foodie guide to Montréal: our exclusive with the Gazette's Lesley Chesterman. Spring produce: where to get fresh and local. Pamela Reisse on Soup. WOSA Tasting wrap-up. Stratford's Northwestern S.S. Culinary Arts Program. | Gourmet Media: Paula Wolfert continues to search for the answer to the mystery of Canadian foodie inventor Pierre de Serres, the scientist turned inventor who brought sous-vide cooking to the masses in the 1980s. Wolfert has revealed to Gremolata six new clues as part of our ongoing appeal to readers who might know his whereabouts...[more]. | |
| Gremolata; gremolada: [greh-moh-LAH-tah] A garnish made of minced parsley, lemon peel and garlic. It's sprinkled over osso buco and other dishes to add a fresh, sprightly flavour. (Source: Food Network Encyclopedia) | ||
Fresh Food: Just in time for spring, Cheese guru Andy Shay returns this week with a look at sheep's milk cheese. Sharper than cow, but softer than goat, sheep's features prominently in Andy's new Shay Cheese box (a Gremolata web-exclusive offering) with selections from New Brunswick, Quebec and Spain...[more]. | Fresh Food: Michele Chandler returns this week with a look at Toronto's better white breads and bagels in her regular Chow for Now column. Do Toronto bread bakers live up to 10,000 years of starchy staple? Who has the best baguette? And will New York and Montréal ever make bagel peace?...[more] | |
| Spotted: Jerusalem artichokes at Pusateri's, Avenue & Lawrence: $2.99/lb. | ||
Fresh Food: Roving reporter Matthew Christian returns to Gremolata with a look how the world's great dishes got their names, and wonders where are the great Canadian culinary monikers? The Eggs Georges Vanier or Pommes Atwood...[more] Gremolata is in the midst of a site redesign and adding new features. Please send us your ideas and suggestions for new sections and features. | Fine Wine: Nothing quite kicks off a dinner party like a glass of Champagne. At $39.95 the non-vintage Lanson Black Label Brut (LCBO# 41889) offers superior value than the bigger name houses that retail closer to $60. David Lawrason has given the classic blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noire and Pinot Meunier a "90" score. Widely available, look for it at Summerhill, Queen's Quay, Dupont & Spadina, Yonge & Davisville, Bayview Village, Bloor & Royal York among other stores. | |
| From the world food press: Is San Sebastián the best place to eat in Europe? | ||
Fresh Food: Where do you buy cheese in the Big Apple? Gremolata's cheese guru Andy Shay starts spreading the news on New York city's best gourmet food stores...[more]. Wanted: information on Ontario growers of micro-greens: email any suggestions to info@gremolata.com. | Gourmet Media: Is the "Mediterranean Diet" an American media myth invented in the 1980's? Have we been fooled into trying to replicate a lifestyle that never was? Are recommended diets really an elaborate food pyramid scheme? For the first time online, bestselling author Margaret Visser explains why North Americans and Northern Europeans may have been living a pesto and sun-dried tomato-fuelled lifestyle lie for the last 25 years and how denizens of the Mediterranean are starting to catch on...[more]. | |
| From the World Wide Web: www.tartiflet.net (en français, of course) | ||
Gourmet Media: Jamie Oliver can't seem to get a break. The Naked Chef is embroiled in yet another controversy, this time over posters for his new show...[more from BBC]. Another report on the current troubles of the French wine industry was published recently in the L.A. Times under the provocative title: Who's Killing the Great Wines of France. | Gourmet Media: In the wake of the wine-infused success of the film Sideways, numerous reports out of the United States claim a record increase in of sales of Pinot Noir-based bottles, to a corresponding decrease in Merlot-based labels. Santa Barbara County, where the film was shot on location, has jumped on the band wagon by publishing a map of Mile's and Jack's ill-fated trip. Get it here. | |
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