Gremolata’s Malcolm Jolley caught up with CBC Radio host Matt Galloway to chat about Ting, Fiesta Farms, Butter Chicken and Octopus, among other things. Gremolata: A couple of years ago, you wrote an article on a dire shortage of the Jamaican grapefruit soda, Ting. Have supplies kept up? Matt Galloway: Thankfully, yes. I have some…
What is the best way to ring in the New Year for your health? Despite being blamed for many pot bellies, beer is more nutritious than wine, and most other alcoholic beverages. It’s referred to as “liquid bread” for good reason. Beer has more selenium and B vitamins than wine, as well as a higher…
On average, 50 million sperm are introduced into the vagina by ejaculation. Only a handful of those millions make it to the fallopian tubes. One sperm is able to swim up the tube and fertilize one egg by releasing an enzyme. The fertilized egg is then inserted into the uterus and grows into your child….
The Yucatán is not the land of tequila. I know, because I’ve been to the land of tequila – Jalisco. And it was everything I had dreamed of – and more. But, in our travels through Mexico, we’ve discovered that there’s more to the drinks than simply the highly touted and most famous product. Even…
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an…
Sacha Douglas points to a table at the back of the long storefront on Queen Street East in Leslieville and informs me this was the setting for what has become to be known as “Battle Cheese”. We are in Coupe Space, an old martial arts studio which houses her husband Bill Douglas’ design culture magazine…
Gremolata’s Cheese Expert, Andy Shay of Shay Cheese, looks at fine cheeses and related topics in Canada and around the world. You can order your own supply of artisanal cheese from Shay Cheese to be delivered right to your door. Browse all of Andy’s cheese wisdom at the column to the left. Meet Andy at…
Gremolata: Is Climbing the Mango Trees a food memoir? Madhur Jaffrey: I have no idea what it is officially. It is a memoir with a lot of food in it. I wasn’t trying to write about food, actually. I was just trying to write about my life as a child and there’s so much food…
Paul Finkelstein is a happy man: earlier in the day that I spoke to him a group of grade two kids, from the local elementary school had taken a tour of the patch of land he and a handful of high school students grow vegetables on. He beamed, “It was amazing to see them in…
It never crossed my mind that soy – a favorite health food – might be toxic and dangerous. It wasn’t the first time. Bottled water, margarine, and gluten grains all come to mind. But soy? The wonder bean? I was faithful to the plant. I’d been a vegetarian for five years and though I now…