REVIEWS

What images conjure up when thinking about communal living?  Hippies? Cults? Closed religious communities?  Stowel Lake Farms is none of them: it’s a family farm that has embraced multi-generations of people with a common purpose…to provide organic food for themselves and their community.  It also has a retreat center where you can re-energize your body, […]

Have you wondered what the restaurant industry looks like behind the scenes?  Chuck Hughes, restauranteur and media icon, gives us an inside look at the people he works with, the food partners that he depends on, and the important people in his life…all coming together to make his establishments and career a success. With east

Funny how life comes full circle when it comes to food.  I grew up on pickled herring and dark rye bread.  Our grocery budget was $20 a week to feed a family of 8.  Everything else came from our farm or our produce would be traded for meat from other farmers.  Foraging for mushrooms with

I love watching John Catucci bring his humour to the kitchens of restaurants in the You Gotta Eat Here series.  I wasn’t crazy about his performances on Just for Laughs but he redeemed himself on the Food Network stage.  Although Food Network Canada has ended the You Gotta Eat Here segments, John has moved on

If you’re looking for a great cookbook to introduce your children or young people to cooking, this is the one for you!  Or if you want to expand your predictable dinner rotations with some fast, easy and delicious recipes, this is it!  Peppered throughout the book are tried and true adages that will make you

March is national nutrition month and we wanted to share the best cookbook on the subject: Dietitians of Canada Cook!  We’re here to dispel the myth that eating healthy means no flavour or boring dishes.  Look at the Mini Praline Cheesecakes we brought you in the Recipe section – a huge hit in our family!  

This fascinating book by Marielle Cormier-Boudreau and Melvin Gallant is much more than recipes. The authors researched the cooking (and culture) of the Acadian people of Maritime Canada: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and the Magdalen Islands. The Acadians settled in this area from central France in the mid-1600’s and were ousted and

What better way to spend your day in the mid-1970’s but to get together with friends for a game of bridge.  Housewives were still looking to break into the career world so instead a handful of ambitious ladies put together their best recipes they toted to their weekly bridge games.  This small enterprise slowly grew

Valentine’s Day is for sweets and sweethearts.  What better cookbook to bring you this week but one chock full of delectable delights?   Jenna and Ashley grew up baking alongside their mom and developed a sweet tooth along the way.  Leaving their potentially lucrative (and some may say sensible) careers behind, they came together to open

While researching this older cookbook, I came across Sarah Lynk’s obituary and it reminded me that we all have stories to tell.  Sarah and her love of people and food affected those around her and she left an impression on all who knew her: “Sarah Lynk fed the world. At her table sat people from