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One Pots and Two Zimmermans – Surviving and Thriving in Toronto’s Kensington Market

February 23, 2021

Pots, Zimmerman

(Left to right) Potsothy (Pots) Sallapa, Adam Zimmerman, Danny Zimmerman at
4 Life Natural Foods

Whither Kensington?

These are podcasts recorded a few years ago about the changing nature of Kensington Market.

Everyone knows him as Pots. His full name is Potsothy Sallapa. This popular, kind, soft-spoken man has found his roots — literally and figuratively.

His dream is to build a rooftop greenhouse above his store 4 Life Natural Foods on Augusta Ave. in Toronto’s downtown Kensington Market. These are the literal roots. Read more…

Filed Under: Chicken, Chicken, Fall Recipe, Fall vegetables, Kensington Market, ratatouille recipe, Recipe, Toronto, Vegetables Tagged With: 4 Life Natural Foods, Chicken Schnitzel, Danny Zimmerman, kensington market, mushroom sauce, Pots, Potsothy Sallapa, Ratatouille, recipe, Roasted Vegetables, Sri Lanka, Toronto, Zimmerman’s Discount Store, Zoltan Zimmerman

Delicious Food Memoirs that Entertain and Feed the Soul

January 8, 2021

From North America to the United Kingdom, these are my favourite food memoirs

A few days ago, I was craving a Walnut Whip. I bought three of them.

Why did I have a longing for an iconic British candy first made by Duncan’s of Edinburgh in 1910? Why did a milk chocolate cone with a whipped vanilla filling and a walnut on top urgently beckon to me? The answer: I was recently researching this blog post by re-reading the compelling memoir “Toast” by Nigel Slater and watching the brilliant BBC film by the same name. Read more…

Filed Under: Anthony Bourdain, Book Recommendations, Books, British Food, British sweets, Chefs, David Leite, Elissa Altman, Eric Ripert, Food Memoirs, Jacques Pépin, Marcus Samuelsson, Nigel Slater, Toast, Vikram Vij, Walnut Whip Tagged With: anthony bourdain, david leite, elissa altman, eric ripert, Jaques Pepin, Marcus Samuelsson, memoirs, nigel slater, Vikram Vij

Recipe for Success – or Failure

July 8, 2020

Failed carrot cake - instead, pudding!

Failed carrot cake - instead, pudding!

The Stuffed Carrot Cake I baked was obviously a failure but it was extremely tasty as a pudding

First, a little first-person backstory.

I quit my job as food editor and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, after 18 years in 2007. It was arguably the best job for a food journalist in Canada. Four years later, I re-invented myself as a freelance Food Sleuth. Meanwhile, I did a couple of community cookbooks with residents of Toronto public housing and for an advocacy non-profit group called FoodShare. Read more…

Filed Under: 9/11, Baking, Bonnie Stern, Chef Michael Lomonaco, Chicken, Chicken, Dessert, Fall vegetables, Mairlyn Smith, New York City, Podcasts, Recipe, Toronto Tagged With: carrot cake, Chicken, Ian Brown, Jennifer Segal, Jerusalem, Mairlyn Smith, michael lomonaco, mustard sauce, nigella lawson, pudding, recipe, recipe mistakes, Sittin' in the Kitchen, Yotam Ottolenghi

20 years on, I’m Still a Fan of Charming Chef Jamie Oliver

May 25, 2020

The Naked Chef - Jamie Oliver

This appeared as a longer feature article in the Toronto Star food section on January 26, 2000, after I discovered Jamie Oliver’s fledgling show “The Naked Chef” on TVO. I spoke to Jamie in the flesh a few months later when he was consulting at a London restaurant – the Toronto Star article appears below this one. Twenty years later, he’s had his ups and downs, and I am still a fan. 

Jamie Oliver must have supernatural powers. He can make a person leap out of her comfy chair, run downstairs, fling open the freezer and act on an overpowering urge to roast a leg of lamb. I should know. It happened to me. Under slightly different circumstances, it also happened to Jody Read, acquisitions programmer for TVO. Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, Chicken, Fall Recipe, Food Industry, Foodies, London, Pie, Pie, Recipe, Restaurant, Vegan Tagged With: British TV, carbonara, chicken curry, Jamie Oliver, Jools, Keep Cooking and Carry On, lamb, London, organic farming, quarantine, recipe, roast leg of lamb, sausage meatballs, The Naked Chef, toronto star, vegan shepherd's pie

My Croqueta Quest in Miami

April 21, 2020

Croquetas are a breaded and fried snack food with various fillings that are extremely popular  in Miami

Carlos Frias, the food editor at the Miami Herald, is my buddy and guide to all things delicious in his Florida home. Read more…

Filed Under: Baking, Chefs, Restaurant, Sleuthing, South Beach Miami Tagged With: carlos frias, croquetas, Dos Croquetas, Frankarlo Hernandez, Miami, Palomilla Grill

John Ota Serves up Delicious Matzo Balls in Chicken Soup

March 11, 2020

This delicious chicken soup with matzo balls from the Tenement Kitchen in New York City appears in John Ota’s book: The Kitchen
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Ingredients: A hunger for knowledge; boundless energy and enthusiasm; a love of architecture and design; a passion for cooking and for good food. Read more…

Filed Under: Breakfast, Chefs, Chicken, Chicken, Cookbooks, Healing power of food, Jewish Chicken Soup, Julia Child, Matzoh Balls, Recipe, scrambled eggs, Soup Tagged With: chicken soup, John Ota, Julia Child's Scrambled Eggs, matzo balls, recipe, The Kitchen

This Sensational Salad Recipe is from the Cookbook “South”

November 18, 2019

This Tomato and Watermelon Salad from SOUTH is Sensational Read more…

Filed Under: Chicken, Cookbooks, Recipe, Salad, Vegetables Tagged With: anthony bourdain, heirloom tomatoes, recipe, salad, Sean Brock, tomato, vinaigrette, Waffle House, watermelon

I’m a Convert to Mairlyn Smith’s Healthy Fibre Crusade

June 10, 2019

Decadent Chocolate Chunk Cookies from “Peace, Love & Fibre”  

“Dear Canadians, Fibre not only keeps you regular, it lowers your chances of developing breast cancer and heart disease. Add a salad to your day, eat a handful of nuts, switch to whole grains, eat some beans! Signed Your Body” – Mairlyn Smith. Read more…

Filed Under: Baking, Chocolate, Mairlyn Smith, Recipe Tagged With: baking, barley flour, Chocolate Chunk Cookies, fibre, Mairlyn Smith, recipe

Fond Memories of my Mum and her Delicious Food

April 19, 2019

LONDON UK – It was about six years ago and my mother and I were about to leave her flat on Steeles Rd. in Primrose Hill. We were standing in the small hallway when she put on her new navy blue gabardine coat with a hood. Read more…

Filed Under: addiction, Baking, Holocaust, identity, Jewish, Latvia, London, My mum Ruth Schachter, Personal Change, Recipe, Recovery, Riga, Seafood, Story, Women Tagged With: anniversary, Coulibiac, Latvia, linzertorte, London, mother, mum, pastry, recipe, Riga, Ruth, salmon, yogurt

Ontario Farmers and Chefs Serve up a Tasty Cookbook

January 15, 2019

Farm to Table: Celebrating Stratford Chefs School Alumni, Recipes & Perth County Producers - Andrew Coppolino

Char Siu Pork in Lettuce Cups Served at a Launch for “Farm to Table”

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It was the year 2005. In search of a geographical cure with an escape to the bucolic countryside, I moved lock, stock and barrel from the big smoke of downtown Toronto where I had lived and worked for 30 years to the small rural Ontario town of Stratford – the land famous for swine and Shakespeare. Read more…

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Ginger, Recipe, Toronto Tagged With: Andrew Coppolino, Black Dog Village Pub, char siu pork shoulder, Farm to Table, Kathleen Sloan-McIntosh, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, pork, recipe, Stratford

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Marion Kane has been a leader in the world of food journalism for a few decades. She is an intrepid populist whose work combines social commentary with a consuming passion for all things culinary. For 18 years, she was food editor/columnist for Canada's largest newspaper: the Toronto Star. She lives in Toronto's colourful Kensington Market and is currently a free-wheeling freelance food sleuth®, podcaster, writer and cook.

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