Gremolata 086 | Barcelona Tapas | Jamie Drummond | City Bites: Heirloom Tomatoes & Prime Cuts of Meat

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	Tapas in Barcelona Left with a morning to himself in the Catalan capital, Eric Vellend decides to eat his way through the city. No sardine or baby squid is safe as he samples plate after plate from some of Barcelona's oldest and most celebrated tapas bars ...[more].		Sommelier Jamie Drummond Affable Scotsman Jamie Drummond is the Sommelier for Jamie Kennedy's restaurants. Gremolata's Malcolm Jolley sat down recently with Drummond to ask him about his job and what he's buying these days. ...[more]. (Photo: Mary Elizabeth Armstrong)
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	*From City Bites: Heirloom Tomatoes and Rare Meats* Toronto's premiere print magazine on food and wine, City Bites, is out with it's most bountiful issue ever. In a web-exclusive, Gremolata is publishing two articles by two of Toronto's foremost gourmet writers. Click here for Pamela Cuthbert's 'A Breed Apart', a look at what rare meats top butchers and chefs are rediscovering in their quest to bring new old flavours to the table. Click here for Stephen Temkin's piece on Heirloom tomatoes. Like everything else, it turns out some are better than others. Click here to find a copy of City Bites' Latest issue at a location near you. Also in this issue: Julia Rogers on smoked cheese, Konrad Ejbich on omakase, Eric Vellend on croissants, Jowita Blydlowska on Feast of Fields, Stephen Beaumont on Whisky, Trish Kaliciak on wild blue berries and a whole lot more.				Marco Pierre White's Autobiography \| Anthony Bourdain's Beirut \| Evacuation \| In Emeril's Studio Audience \| Click here
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	Premium Piggy It was industry only at a special chefs' BBQ celebrating Berkshire pork from Manitoba. Gremolata's Ivy Knight showed up to try every creation from some of Toronto's top kitchens, from pulled pork to chocolate bacon truffles ...[more]. (Photo: Malcolm Dunlop)	More Fruit Beer Beer expert Greg Clow returns with a look at fruit beers in the second part of his series ...[more].
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	The Interviews 27 Q&A's from Gremolata's first 85 issues
	Viia Beaumanis Alain Besré Bill Buford Pamela Cuthbert Trish Magwood Leah McLaren Marion Nestle Michael Ruhlman Renée Unger Bob Blumer Bigourdan & Lee Lesley Chesterman Jason Collett Claudia Dey Angelo Gaja Rick Gallop Matt Galloway Taras Grescoe Natalie MacLean Gina Mallet Jennifer McLagan David Miller Thomas Pawlick Dufflet Rosenberg Sinclair Stewart Szabo & Szabo Paula Wolfert

	Marion Nestle Interview Nutrionist as superstar? Marion Nestle's What To Eat cuts through a billion dollars of food marketing to look at what's really for sale at the supermarket and she tells us what we should be putting into our bodies (hint: it includes less Twinkies and TV dinners and more fresh fruits and vegetables). In this exclusive interview, Dr. Nestle talks to Malcolm Jolley about how she came to write the book and some of what she learned along way. Click here for the full interview.					-Ad-
	How to Veg out In the interests of diversity, Gremolata introduces Sheryl Kirby, our new vegetarian columnist ...[more].			Fruit Beer In the further interest of diversity, Gremolata takes a break from wine this week to look at some fruity suds: beer columnist Greg Clow returns with a look at the perfect seasonal brew ...[more].
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	Empty Bowls Imagine the ultimate soup kitchen. Who would make the soup? David Lee? Jamie Kennedy? David Chrystian? Marc Thuet, Pascal Ribreau or Didier Leroy? Claudio Aprile? Or maybe all of them and even more cooks from Toronto's top restaurants. Gremolata's kitchen-insider, Ivy Knight, took it all in recently at this summer's annual Empty Bowls fundraiser. Find out who cooked what at this exclusive and sold-out event held at JK Gardiner. Get the inside scoop on the slurpiest fundraiser in town: click here for more.
			Supermarket Cheese Sometimes you're stuck far away from a good cheese monger. Andy Shay explains how to shop for cheese at the - gasp -supermarket ...[more].

	Super Summer Supper Sipper Thank you, Dionysus, for the Iberian peninsula. From where else do you find $15 wines that are six or more years old? The 2000 Quinta da Garrida (LCBO# 683698) from the Dão, is a wonderfully mellowed blend of Touriga Nacional and Tinto Roriz (or Tempranillo over the border in Spain). These are grapes traditionally used to make Port, but the Portuguese have begun making excellent value estate wines from them in the past 20 years and the vintages from the late 90s and early 2000s are often wonderful drinkers. Vic Harradine (winecurrent.com) gives the Qta. da Garrida four out of five stars and notes "although the fruit is certainly sweet, it is not jammy and the nervy finish is glorious with berry fruit, liquorice and tar notes." Despite the its Port pedigree, the Garrida is not an overpowering wine and at 13% is versatile at the table. (This reviewer attests it will hold up to a hamburger very well). Although it was released in May, ahead of the June focus on Portugal at Vintages, there is lots of the Qta da Garrida left. Click here to search for a store carrying it near you. More Gremolata wine reviews: here.		- Ad -
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	Bill Buford Interview
	Bill Buford was a man of letters, Founding Editor at the esteemed literary magazine Granta, later the Literary Editor at The New Yorker. Then, in 2002, he gave it all up to become Mario Batali's kitchen slave. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany tells the story of Buford's three year odyssey to understand food and cooking, and it's the food and wine publishing sensation of the year. Buford's portrait of Batali as a larger-than-life Falstaffian character is as riveting as his description of Dario Cecchini's struggle against the mediocrity of modernity and crappy food. And his account of the kitchen at Babbo, and the people he worked with every night, shows us every triumph savoured and defeat suffered in a four-star New York restaurant. In this exclusive Gremolata interview, Buford tells Malcolm Jolley about what he saw and what he learned. Click here.
	Beef from Uruguay There may not be a lot of grass-fed beef in Canada, but there sure is in Uruguay. Gremolata's Chow For Now columnist, Michele Chandler, discovers a small butcher shop in Toronto that's bringing South American beef to Hogtown ...[more].		Good Food Revolution Jamie Oliver upsets Aussie politicians, Trans Fat Taskforce reports, Robert Carrier dies, more Nigel Slater recipes, roach bomb injures five ...and more!
			Wine: a Canadian selection for Dominion Day from the archives: Lenko and 13th Street wineries.

	The End of Food Author/journalist/agricultural expert Thomas Palwick lived in Italy for a few years, then came home to Canada and bought a tomato... bad idea. In this exclusive Gremolata interview, the author of the most shocking book on modern agriculture explains why even the fresh food we buy may not be particularly good for us, and how big agri-business is destroying the family farm and the environment with it ...[more].	The Marches Hits the Spot First it was the Veneto, then Sicily and Puglia, now a host of new small wine regions are challenging Piedmont and Tuscany's hold on the fine Italian export market. The 2004 Saladini Pilastri Falerio dei Colli Ascolani (LCBO# 681700) is from The Marches, and like the wines from "new" regions that came before it, it offers exceptional value at $11.95 ...[more].

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