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Cheesecake

Cheesecake: My Entrée into Cooking and an Omen of my Culinary Career to Come

August 16, 2013

cheesecake1999 Minchenden School Reunion, North London: My friends Julie Ward Duncan and Frances Carter with our teacher Frankie Stabler and my famous first cheesecake

The above event was featured in my Toronto Star article “Confections of a British Schoolgirl” in August, 1999, and this story appeared on my website in 2013

Occasionally called “a veteran” and, more attractively, “a seasoned member” of Canada’s food media, I’ve been around for a while waxing eloquent about my consuming passion: food. Read more…

Filed Under: Cheesecake, Dessert, Podcasts, Recipe Tagged With: cheesecake, consuming passion, first food, food media career, foodie, frances carter, identity, julie ward, minchendem grammar school, north london

The Tale of my Missing Cookbooks and How I Made Lemonade from Lemons

December 5, 2011

listen-to-the-podcastIt all began about a year ago when I gave two people I had no reason to distrust full access to my large, fully-furnished house while I was away.

All went well for several months during which time I would visit the place occasionally to pick up mail and move items to my new place – mostly clothes, work-related stuff and some important papers.

The pride and joy of my former abode was its cookbook library: a room I had specifically designed to hold the 1,200 or so cookbooks I had accumulated during my almost 40 years as a member of Canada’s food media. Many of those – 18, to be exact – were spent as food editor/columnist for this country’s largest newspaper the Toronto Star where I received review copies of cookbooks on a regular basis. Read more…

Filed Under: Bonnie Stern, Cheesecake, Cookbooks, Julia Child, Nigella Lawson, Pie, Pie, Recipe, Rose Levy Beranbaum Tagged With: bonnie stern, cookbooks, julia child, nigella lawson, pie crust, recipe

Vegan Feasting

July 11, 2008

This article appeared in The Toronto Star on July 9, 2008.

I’m in my local health food store, recipe for tofu cheesecake in hand. It’s one of the items I’m testing for this article on vegan food.

At my request, the helpful young manager is leading the hunt for vegan graham cracker crumbs. Read more…

Filed Under: Cheesecake, Dessert, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetables Tagged With: apricot tofu cheesecake, chickpea salad, portobello mushroom bake, recipe, thai tofu salad, Vegan

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Marion Kane, Food Sleuth®

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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