I love learning the inspiration that gets a chef’s engine running and why they put the gruelling effort into a career that has long hours, workplace challenges and has taken a huge hit in the past few years. Instead, ask yourself the same question chef Suzanne Barr did…why do you cook? Because it makes you […]
Our relationship with family is intrinsically wrapped up in food and interchanges in the kitchen and around the dinner table. Canadian singer-songwriter, Jann Arden, brings us into that relationship with her mother as they journey through the hills and valleys of Alzheimer’s. This book hit home as I watched my father battle through the disease
Let me introduce you to an extraordinary author…Yolanda T. Marshall. She is a Guyanese-Canadian who started writing poems at an early age and just kept writing. And we’re glad she did because Yolanda has been making a name for herself with wonderfully scripted children’s books. Check them out at https://www.ytmarshall.com/yolanda-marshall-books Yolanda stays true to her
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Discovering Food, Medicine and Purpose in the Kelp Forests of the Pacific Northwest. With the onset of sushi popularity, came the fascination with seaweed for not only a superfood but medicinal benefits and spa treatments. Marine biologist, Amanda Swinimer, also delves into the role of seaweed in climate change and its impact on the health
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When my kids were younger and I was working, the biggest challenge was coming home and trying to figure out what to make for dinner…again! This mindset produces fast food fixes and less than nutritional dishes on the table. Then we bought a freezer full of meat from the local butcher and dinner was so
Award winning Canadian Natalie MacMaster, fiddler extraordinaire and proponent of Celtic music and traditions, is on the road again. If she isn’t busy enough with home schooling her children and cooking up homemade pasta sauce and salad dressings, Natalie is touring Canada with partner Donnell Leahy featuring their Celtic Family Christmas shows. Natalie’s early years
When you read about people like Alon Farber and Marie-Josée Richer, founders of Prana, you know immediately they practice what they preach. Living sustainably, organically and inclusively, this dynamic duo is minimizing their footprint on plant earth while educating and inspiring the rest of us. Having met while traveling in India, Alon and Marie- Josée brought back
In the same way Anthony Bourdain exposed the restaurant world in Kitchen Confidential, Corey Mintz takes a look at some of the most egregious practices still going on in your favourite restaurant and supermarket. Couple that with the pandemic and its axe on traditional food service in North America, you have quite a scathing report,
What lies behind the development of recipes and research into different cultures’ food and traditions? Researchers Hannah Tait Neufeld and Elizabeth Finnis wanted to explore these worlds and provide context on how dishes and recipes become embraced by both the home cook and professional chefs through a cultural lens. To do that, they implored some
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What ingredient is more quintessential than Quebec’s maple syrup? When I worked in the school system, we would take bus loads of kids to Quebec City and one of the excursions was always to a sugar shack. The experience made me fall in love with not only Quebec City but the people, beauty and food
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