Gremolata 069 | Maple Syrup | Wine Tricks | Fool

Featured Food & Wine Books from Amazon.ca 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) Click here for more Gremolata.	The Ontario "fresh produce season" has officially arrived with the first batches of pure maple syrup! This year is turning out to be a banner one, especially for Grade #1, the lighter more subtle syrup that's tapped first ...[more].	April Fool's Day Special: why should big multinational concerns be the only ones to adulterate and add flavours to wine? Dean Tudor shows how you too can fool your palate and play with the flavours of your very own plonk ...[more].			-Ad- NEW SHAY CHEESE BOX FOR APRIL (Click here) NEW SHAY CHEESE BOX FOR APRIL (Click here) 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.
	The Easter long-weekend is coming up and Gremolata readers looking for a gourmet getaway could do worse than New York City. Gallivanting gastronome Eric Vellend eats his way through 24 hours in the Big Apple ...[more].	SQUARE MELON SECRETS REVEALED! Andy Shay explains the true story behind the sharp edged fruit... PLUS: Fool, The World's Easiest Dessert!

	ALL NEW CITY BITES NOW AVAILABLE. Gremolata's regular sneak peak at Toronto's top food and wine mag continues. In this week's exclusive excerpts read Trish Kaliciak's ode to HP Sauce and Dick Snyder's loving look at Ontario Pinot master Norman Hardie . Look for the April City Bites Wine Issue in the March 24 Globe & Mail in select Toronto neighbourhoods or click here to find a free copy.	Gremolata's good professor, Dean Tudor, returns with six all new cookbook reviews. From Japanese "Yoshoku" to British gastro-pub fare to an inside look at running a restaurant, Dean surveys the latest ...[more].
		Too bad you can't search the LCBO inventory website for "$19.95", although on second thought it would probably cripple the system. $20 is the ceiling for many of us and this Aussie fruit bomb comes just under, along with so many others ...[more].

	What happens when the chefs take over the restaurant? What do they eat and drink? Industry veteran and food writer Ivy Knight gives us a sneak peak at a recent chefs' dinner organised by David Chrystian and Adam "Oyster Boy" Colquhoun for a hungry and thirsty group of their Toronto cohorts ...[more].	Pity the poor investment banker with an oenophile for a client. The big deal's just closed and it's time to break out a pricey bottle of wine. What do you send the underlings out to buy at the LCBO? We look at Ontario's five most expensive wines ...[more].
	How much bubble gum do you like with your steak? Not sure? Well, apparently some agri-business researchers tried to find out. Tara Longo and Mario Fiorucci, from Toronto's Healthy (and certified organic) Butcher explain in gruesome detail why organic meat is a no brainer ...[more].	Next Friday, March 24, the Ontario Cheese Society is holding a special wine and cheese tasting at the Toronto Wine and Cheese Show at the International Centre. Visit their site for more information by clicking here.

	Cheese guru Andy Shay asks if there are more than five Italian cheeses: Parmesan, Mozzarella, Provolone, Gorgonzola and Romano? Then he answers his question with a survey of some of the better fromaggi only now being brought into Canada ...[more].	Don't forget the whites! Vintages stores are promoting South African wines this month, and there are lots of typically powerful reds on the shelves. But the 2004 La Motte Chardonnay is a great hint of spring for winter weary Ontarians, and easy on the pocket book at $16.95 ...[more].
	When Ivy Knight said she would organise a blind wine tasting, she meant it. So her volunteer tasters weren't surprised when she brought out actual blindfolds to see if there was any truth to the notion of the educated palate and the jargon of tasting ...[more]


	Nearly a year after Jamie Maw gave us our first Vancouver restaurant survey, Eric Vellend heads west to see what's cooking in Lotus Land and filed a mouth watering report for Gremolata. Eric finds much to eat at Tojo, Cru, West, Nu and ...[more].	St. Mary's native Ruth Klahsen is a leading force in the Ontario artisan cheese renaissance. Gremolata's Cheryl Young went out to Monforte Dairy, where she makes her famous cheese to find out more about what makes her tick ...[more].
	-Ad- Five all new cheeses for March. Click here.	Ryerson University Journalism Professor Emeritus and publisher of World Wide Wine Watch, Dean Tudor returns this week with a new batch of food and wine book reviews for March. Including: Susur's cookbook, a volume on noble rot, and much else ...[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].
	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: 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].	Chivite 'Gran Feudo' is back, but this time it's a 1998 Reserva for $13.955. 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].


	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].
				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].
	Browse or search hundreds more articles at Gremolata

	Serving the Good Food Revolution since 2004	Maple Syrup \| Wine Tricks, 24 Hours in New York \| Fool, Toronto: April 2006, Gremolata Number 69.
More (Archives + Search) \| Contact \| Subscribe (it's free) \| About Us \| Wine Agents \| Wine Reviews \| Gremoblog
Gremolata 069 is brought to you by Shay Cheese's April Cheese Box.