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Terrific Cookbook “Bread is Gold” by Massimo Bottura and Friends is Pure Gold

December 6, 2017

Massimo Bottura & Friends - Bread is Gold cookbook

“Bread is Gold” is the result of the “refettorio” launched at Milan’s Expo in 2015. Top-notch recipes from famous international chefs creatively use discarded food. The caramelized bananas with balsamic drizzle from the book are delicious! Read more…

Filed Under: Banana bread, Chefs, Cookbooks, Dessert, Fruit, Recipe, Restaurant, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bread is Gold, caramelized bananas, cookbook, Italy, Massimo Bottura, Modena, Osteria Francescana, recycling

Chef Lynn Returns to Scottish Roots with Mince ‘n’ Tatties

October 15, 2017

This recipe is from the excellent cookbook ‘AT HOME with LYNN CRAWFORD’.

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When I was interviewing well-known Canadian chef Lynn Crawford for a podcast, we chatted about our long friendship, her TV career, our joint project that raised $40,000 for a new kitchen at a Toronto homeless shelter for women called Sistering – and what we like to cook at home. Read more…

Filed Under: Beef, Chefs, Fall Recipe, Fall vegetables, Peas, Potato, Recipe, Vegetables Tagged With: beef, Edinburgh, lynn crawford, podcast, potatoes, recipes, Toronto, TV

Linda McCartney Signed My Book “Go Veggie, Marion!”

August 22, 2017

This article by me appeared in the Toronto Star after I interviewed Linda McCartney in Toronto in October, 1991 about her vegetarian cookbook “Home Cooking”. Sadly, she died too young from breast cancer in 1998 at the age of 56.

In real life, Linda McCartney is nothing like the stilted photo that graces her cookbook.

And, say I, thank goodness for that. Read more…

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Fall Recipe, Fall vegetables, Recipe, Toronto, Vegan, Vegetables, Women Tagged With: chili, cookbook, Linda McCartney, vegetarian

“It’s Only Shepherd’s Pie But I Like It!” Says Keith Richards

May 1, 2017

Keith Richards liked my article so much, he signed a copy. It appeared in the Toronto Star in the summer of 1994 while The Rolling Stones were living in Toronto rehearsing for their Voodoo Lounge tour. (Update: I’ve recently perfected the ultimate version of Shepherd’s Pie that appears on the Recipes page of this site.)
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Filed Under: Pie, Potato, Recipe, Toronto, Vegan Tagged With: Keith Richards, recipe, Rolling Stones, shepherds pie, Toronto, UK

Matty Matheson’s Easy, Fluffy Pancakes May Be World’s Best

April 6, 2017

Chef Matty Matheson is a rising star mostly thanks to his inimitable wit, outrageous antics and yes, cooking talent. His never-dull hit show “Dead Set on Life” on VICE TV along with his huge – and growing – popularity on social media are icing on the cake.

“You need almost no cooking skills to make the world’s greatest pancakes” – Munchies Staff Read more…

Filed Under: addiction, Breakfast, Chefs, Recipe, Toronto Tagged With: addiction, Matty Matheson, pancakes, recipe, Toronto, TV

I Discovered Brilliant Anthony Bourdain Many Years Ago

March 13, 2017

In Memoriam: Anthony Bourdain – an inspiration to me and the huge number of devotees who followed his ground-breaking, intrepid and wondrous work – committed suicide while filming an episode of Parts Unknown in France on June 8, 2018. He was one of a kind. RIP dear friend. Read more…

Filed Under: Beef, Chefs, Cookbooks, Food Industry, Foodies, New York City, Recipe, Restaurant, Vegetables Tagged With: anthony bourdain, beef stew, celebrity chef, Manhattan, New York, recipe

Sweet! Two Delectable Chocolate Creations That Take the Cake

March 10, 2017

Click on this – my podcast chat with domestic goddess Nigella Lawson recorded in Toronto in late 2015 – and you’ll hear her say that we are “kitchen cousins”:  http://www.marionkane.com/podcast/chat-nigella-kitchen-cousin

She’s referring to several important things we have in common: A willingness to freely improvise when cooking; an acceptance of failure in the kitchen as a necessary path to learning, and a penchant for eating her dish of Squid and Orzo Pasta cold for breakfast.

Nigella and I have another important bond: a love of chocolate cakes. In her book “Feast,” published in 2004, there is an entire chapter – beloved my me – called “Chocolate Hall of Fame.” This collection of nine recipes includes her famous Chocolate Guinness Cake – delicious but tends to sink in the middle – Chocolate Gingerbread, also good, and Chocolate Malteser Cake that I haven’t yet made. Read more…

Filed Under: Baking, Chefs, Chocolate, Cookbooks, Dessert, Foodies, Nigella Lawson, Recipe Tagged With: cake, chocolate, chocolate dessert, cookbook, delicious dessert, feast, nigella lawson, recipe, torte

NYC Chef Michael Lomonaco Survived 9/11 and is Still Cooking

January 26, 2017

“I dedicate my work every day to the colleagues I lost on 9/11” – chef Michael Lomonaco.

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Michael Lomonaco loves food and people. But it was an act of hate that pushed him into the spotlight: the tragic events of September 11th, 2001.

Michael was executive chef of Windows on the World: a restaurant once on top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Following the attacks, he helped raise $23 million for the families of foodservice workers killed that day. Those included 79 of his staff working the morning shift and a hot dog vendor on the ground outside. I interviewed him in May 2002. Read more…

Filed Under: 9/11, Beef, Chicken, New York City, Recipe Tagged With: 9/11, Chicken, meatloaf, New York, recipe

Co-Authors Reclaim, Redo and Redeem Gefilte Fish!

November 24, 2016

“Bland, intractably beige, and (most unforgivably of all) suspended in jelly, the bottled version seemed to have been fashioned, golem-like, from a combination of packing material and crushed hope.” From an article about gefilte fish by Rebecca Flint Marx in The New Yorker (October, 2016)

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The above is eloquent testimony to the bad reputation of gefilte fish – a downhome, humble staple at the Jewish holiday table. Read more…

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Jewish, Recipe Tagged With: Brooklyn, gefilte fish, Jeffery Yoskowitz, Jewish Cooking, Liz Alpern, New York, recipe, terrine

Alex Prud’homme on Great-Aunt Julia Child’s Rise to Stardom

November 1, 2016

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Julia Child’s great-nephew Alex Prud’homme with his new book

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Julia Child often said: “I was born hungry!” She had an appetite for life and sharing a love of good food was her consuming passion. She was North America’s first TV celebrity chef and her great-nephew Alex Prud’homme had a front-row seat. Read more…

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Julia Child, Potato Tagged With: alex prud'homme, cookbooks, julia child, potatoes, recipe

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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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