Gremolata 064 | PEI Moonshine | La Vendimia

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 Encyclopaedia) Gremolata's Wine Reviews Click here for more.	It's not all Anne of Green Gables on Prince Edward Island. Nor is it just potaoes and mussels. Ivy Knight's childhood home in the Straits of Northumberland is known as Canada's moonshine capital, and she brought some down the road to share and taste ...[more].	Spain's hottest winemaker, Alvaro Palacios came to Toronto this week to showcase his wine. At $15.95 his 2004 La Vendimia Rioja is great deal and a good introduction to a star winemaker's work ...[more].			-Ad- Andy Shay is Gremolata's Cheese Guru Sign-Up for Shay Cheese today. Gremolata Interviews Leah McLaren Trish Magwood Dufflet Rosenberg Paula Wolfert Matt Galloway Bob Blumer Jason Collett Gina Mallet Paul Finkelstein and the Slow Food Youth Donna Dooher's Food Terminal Tour Jetsetter Viia Beaumanis Click here for even more.
	South African wine tasting (over 200 wines): March 7 at Hart House. Click here.
	Le chou. Il cavolo. O repolho. La col. Der Kohl. Kvashennaya. And on it goes. Brassica oleracea may be the world's most used winter vegetable, but it could use a little more respect. Gremolata presents 7 Reasons Why We Should Celebrate the Humble Cabbage looks at this remarkable family of greens ...[more].	NEXT FRIDAY: at Trish Magwood's dish Cooking Studio a very special class to raise money for Trails Youth Initiatives. Click here to find out how you can eat your way to a better world.

	Amanda Hesser says "it's the KitchenAid Mixer of the Spanish home" and Ferran Adriá swears by his: the Thermomix is taking over Ontario and Gremolata's own Michele Chandler is leading the charge. This machine slices, dices and boils and simmers ...[more].	Alan McGinty is a big fan of Spanish wines, so when the Bravo España wine show came to town, featuring only wines available at the LCBO, he had to take notes ...[more].
	Check your attic and basement and keep an eye out a the next garage sale for Time Life Book's two great cooking series: Foods of the World and The Good Cook. Brought out approximately a decade a part, both series harnessed some of the top food writers of the day ...[more].

	Gremolata's cheese guru Andy Shay returns in this update to look at new developments in Ontario artisan cheese making. Andy surveys cheese from the Upper Canada Cheese Co., who are using Guernsey cow's milk, and Lanark County's Back Forty ...[more].	The Chivite 'Gran Feudo' is back, but this time it's a 1998 Reserva for $13.95. Gremolata finds out why Spanish wine makers can bring eight year old wines to the market for under $20. It's about tradition, not trends ...[more].
	From Gremolata's Archives...
	Gina Mallet The James Beard Award winning author tells us why McDonald's isn't really so bad, what she'd have for her "perfect meal", who wrote her favourite cookbooks and whatever else Gremolata could think of to ask. Then, in an essay exclusively published on Gremolata, she tells us what drove her to write her international best-seller, Last Chance to Eat. Click here to read it all.		Toronto's Little India Do you know where to get the best barfi in Toronto? Gremolata's Michele Chandler found out when Arvinda Chauhaun took her on a tour of Gerrard Street East, also known as Little India. From patra to jalebi Arvinda took Michele through all the shops on the strip ...[more]

	Gremolata's Ivy Knight has worked in some of Toronto's top kitchens and can handle just about anything that's thrown to her. So why is her favourite chef such a nice guy? Read her profile of Oliver Bonacini Restaurant's Anthony Walsh ...[more].	Drinking well at under $20 a bottle usually means staying away from tony regions like Burgundy. But at $16.95 the 2004 Domaine des Granges Mâcon-Chaintré allows budget imbibers the opportunity to sip on Old World structure and sophistication at a New World price ...[more].
	Wine Writer and Ryerson University Journalism Professor Emeritus, Dean Tudor is back in this update with brand new Food and Wine Book Reviews for early 2006. Dean looks at Toronto-based Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Dugiud's Mangoes & Curry Leaves, four new books on Spanish cuisine and his top two picks of the month ....[more].

	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].
	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].
	Sandwich Search: Gremolata's chef/writer Ivy Knight believes a good sandwich shouldn't be factory made or cost $20. In search of Toronto's best things between bread, Ivy gets out of the kitchen and into the city's best sandwich counters ...[more].			NEW CITY BITES OUT NOW: Toronto's favourite gourmet magazine has a new edition available now. Click here.

	Toucinho: Portugese Smoked Bacon 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].			Finca Flichman: a $12 Knock-Out 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].
	Cheryl Young looks at mid-town neighbourhood Leaside, as she scours her city for interesting food shops (Part 1 of 2) ...[more].			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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	Covering the Good Food Revolution since 2004	Ivy's PEI Moonshine, Cabbage \| La Vendimia, Toronto: February 2006, Gremolata Number 64.
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