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Gai Lan | Dme. La Martine "Roaix"
Cookbook War! Susur vs. Stadtländer
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Gremolata Number 60.

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Sometimes called Chinese broccoli, Gai Lan is super-good-for-you dark leafy green that wins way more gastronomic points than your average brassica. Time to turn over a new leaf for Chinese New Year? ...[more].Another under $20 2003 stunner for France, the Domaine La Martine "Roaix" pulls no punches with a 14.5% alcohol rating  ...[more].

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Ontario's two master chefs, Michael Stadtländer and Susur Lee, each brought out a cookbook this season. Gremoblog peruses the pages and compares them with a handy quick reference table ...[more].


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Harissa: North Africa is the source of the newest Mediterranean cuisine craze and nothing captures the palate and transports us away from a dreary Ontario winter like Harissa, the Maghreb's famous garlic-infused hot sauce ...[more]. Château Canada: 2003's hot European summer continues to turn ordinary wines, like Château Canada,  into wonderful ones ...[more].
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Toronto and Southern Ontario has one of North America's largest Portuguese communities, but it's only recently that the cuisine from the Southwest tip of Europe is being discovered by the rest of us. Toucinho is a Portuguese smoked bacon that no home cook's larder should be without ...[more].
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The January 7 Vintages release was all about South American wines. Chile has had a profile in North America for sometime, chiefly as a source of well-priced Cabernets. Less known are the wines of Argentina and its star varietal, the Malbec grape ...[more].
Recently in Gremoblog: Stadtlander, Ruth Reichl,Screwcaps and more...Cardoons are back for the winter vegetable season. Look for them in Italian grocers and fine food shops. Their artichoke flavour makes a great soup ...[more].
 

Food and Wine Trends for 2006: Gremolata looks to Boulod, Bourdain, Dooher, Ejbich, Mallet, Pearce, Ramsay, Ruhlman and Wolfert for the new tricks of o-six ...[click here].

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Book reviewer and wine writer extraordinaire Dean Tudor offers his 2005 Holiday Season Book picks. In the first of a three-part series, Dean tells us what get for the literate foodie, with 19 new titles reviewed this week  ...[more].The Porcupine Ridge Syrah is back, and it's still a great deal at $13.95. last January this South African bomb exploded in Ontario was gone in a few short weeks. The 2004 Vintage is proving just as popular with the critics ...[more].

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Chris Willsher continues his Dionysian journey through Ontario wine country with a visit to Fielding Estate winery ...[more].Matthew Christian wishes he had read Alan Davidson's masterpiece, North Atlantic Seafood, before a fateful meeting  with a fearsome sculpin ...[more].
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From the Gremolata vaults: a look at a fruit at it's peak right now: the persimmon. Plus, New Brunswick's runny, washed rind find: Le Gamin ...[more].

Cold weather and the  impending holiday season make Gremolata's Cheese Guru Andy Shay think of the Queen and the cheeses of Great Britain. Andy takes us through some of the more exciting British cheeses available here ...[more].In the second part of her series on salt, Sara Staysa looks at England's gourmet contribution to sodium chloride: Maldon Sea Salt. It's all in the crystals as Sara goes beyond fleur de sel and finds gourmet flakes in far flung locales ...[more].
He's known as the Prince of Piedmont, so when City Bites Editor Dick Snyder got the chance to meet Angelo Gaja and try some of his cult-classic (and none-too-cheap) wines poured by dynamic sommelier duo Szabo & Szabo, he couldn't say no ...[more]

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