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NEW SHAY CHEESE BOX FOR MAY'05 Gremolata's Greatest Hits | (New) Fresh Food: When Toronto's smart set recently converged on Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar to nosh and wax on the future of food with Andrew Heintzman, Evan Solomon, Michele Chandler was there...[more] | (New) Gourmet Media: BYOW restaurants listed at new site: BringMyWine.ca...Gina Mallet's Last Chance to Eat creates a stir in the U.K....Gremolata makes it to Toronto Life...The Pop Shoppe Comes Back...City Bites goes online...[more] | Coming in the Next Update: It's not all granola and flax seed (although you can certainly find that sort of thing) at Dufferin Grove Park's Farmers' Market. In the next Gremolata Update (021) we'll check out Toronto's funkiest organic farmers market and find everything from Guinea fowl to sun chokes (see their website here). | Gremolata Books: | |
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Fresh Food: The Cheese Boutique has informed Gremolata that a special shipment of fresh Bufala Mozzarella is being flown into the shop from Campania on the very day it's being made. For the first time in North America, La Contadina agreed to ship their cheese across the ocean. But there's catch! To gain the proud cheese makers' permission, the Cheese Boutique's Fatos Pristine explained that he has to personally fly to Italy, spend the night, watch them make the cheese and fly back that day...[more] | Gourmet Travel: London, Ontario-based chef Chris Squire has announced a new season of Escapes to Tuscany. Squire, who is chef in residence at the ever popular gourmet shop, Kiss the Cook, personally leads small groups in these gastronomic adventures to Italy's famed food and wine province, while staying in a 17th Century Villa with a demonstration kitchen...[more] | ||||
Gourmet Media: 60 Highschool students and a mad teacher go for a field trip to an Ontario farm. Pretty standard stuff, right? Wrong! When Michael Stadtlander, Anthony John and Ruth Klahsen showed up, Gremolata realised that Stratford Northwestern Highschool's Slow Food Youth Symposium was something special and Paul Finklestein wasn't that mad after all..[more] | Fresh Food: Christine Cushing, Jamie Kennedy, David Lee, Marc Thuet and Massimo Capra, among others have all signed up for the Cheese Boutique's new May tasting series: Festival of Chefs...[more] | ||||
Gourmet Media:  This week New York City's James Beard Foundation announced their list of 2005 Award for Excellence nominees. Congratulations to the two Gremolata contributors on the list: Gina Mallet ("Writing on Food" for Last Chance to Eat) and Natalie MacLean ("Magazine Writing on Spirits, Wine, or Beer" for 'Waiter, There’s a Flaw in My Wine' in Ottawa City Magazine and "MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award" for 'American Idol' at www.NatalieMacLean.com) | |||||
Fresh Food Flashback: | Fresh Food Flashback: Michele Chandler braved the crowds at the St. Lawrence Market to find Serrano Ham: "The pig has landed, or at least the serrano ham, and we are rejoicing here in Canada. Thanks to the intense efforts of Serrano Imports and Spanish producer Campofrio, Canadians are once again allowed to eat Spanish cured pork....[more]S | ||||
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In the wake of New Year's resolutions Gremolata focuses on a small and cheap treat: stuffed olives from Spain. Gremolata is particularly fond of the Fragata brand, made in Seville. At under $2 for a 210 ml tin, they're a wonderful little snack stuffed with anchovies, garlic, almonds, tuna, lemon or, of course, pimento. Available at independent fine food stores like Magnolia, Fresh and Wild and the 