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Getting Ready to Celebrate the 100th birthday of Cuisine Queen Julia Child
Left: The real Julia Child hams it up with a chicken. Right: Meryl Streep in Julie and Julia.
“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” — Julia Child
I’ve been a busy member of Canada’s food media for many moons — more than 30 years of telling stories about my consuming passion, 18 of them as food editor/columnist for Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star.
Melissa Leithwood Names This Year’s “It” Meat — No Kidding
- Melissa with a terrific book by Mark Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein featuring goat meat
As I write, my kitchen is filled with the luscious aroma of goat curry warming in the oven. And I have Melissa Leithwood to thank for that.
Save the date (March 8, 2011) for Kitchen Sisters: A Fundraiser Feast
For 18 years, as food editor and food columnist for the Toronto Star, I shared my passion for things culinary.
Most important and gratifying was the joyous connection it gave me to people who enjoy and prepare food – from the Filipino taxi driver who enthusiastically described how his mother makes Chicken Adobo to the firefighters with whom I cooked and then ate a luscious, convivial meal of grilled chicken and rhubarb crumble at their downtown Toronto firehall one lovely evening.
