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Winning Reader’s Recipe in 2011 Observer Food Monthly Annual Awards is a Winner!

My mother Ruth Schachter (nee Nisse), age 88, is one live-wire.

She reminds me (and oth­ers) of the cute lit­tle old lady in the orig­i­nal “Ladykillers” star­ring Alec Guin­ness and a young, dash­ing Peter Sell­ers. White-haired and blue-eyed, that sweet, seem­ingly inno­cent, slightly scatter-brained octo­ge­nar­ian is far more savvy than she looks. ‘Nuff said.

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Sweet Smell of Success and a Few Bites from the Big Apple

I can’t go for too long with­out a visit to my favourite place: Manhattan.

There’s some­thing about the buzz, hub­bub and hum that per­me­ates it both night and day — not to men­tion the food aro­mas ema­nat­ing from food carts and eater­ies at every cor­ner — that make that place feel like home.

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Clotilde Dusoulier Offers Food for Thought to Bloggers at George Brown College

I was already jug­gling a cou­ple of things I wanted to do on a recent mid-week night when I stopped by The Cook­book Store to check out the lat­est offer­ings and chat with its res­i­dent maven/manager and my long­time buddy Ali­son Fryer.

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David Chang’s Asian Take on Brussels Sprouts — my Fave Underdog Veg — is Delish!

I’ve been cham­pi­oning Brus­sels sprouts for many moons.

Some time in the 1990s, when I was food edi­tor for the Toronto Star, I penned a piece on “under­dog foods” in which I named those that have a bad rep, some of them for no appar­ent or jus­ti­fi­able reason.

The list included these items: Liver, prunes, turnips, tofu, tapi­oca — and Brus­sels sprouts.

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