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Surviving the Apocalypse Involves Dutch Babies

November 24, 2018

Dutch BabiesDutch Babies are a crepe-like dish that can be filled with a variety of goodies
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Filed Under: Baking, Beef, Chefs, Cookbooks, Dessert, Foodies, Montreal, Podcasts, Recipe, Restaurant Tagged With: anthony bourdain, baking, Canadian cuisine, cookbook, David McMillan, Dutch Babies, Fred Morin, Joe Beef, Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse, Montreal, recipe

Greek Salad and Whole Roasted Cauliflower are Tops in “The Last Schmaltz”

November 8, 2018

Country Greek from “The Last Schmaltz” is a Salad Comprised of
the Usual Ingredients Plus the Welcome Addition of Chickpeas

What is a nice Jewish boy from North York doing with a mini-empire of quirky restaurants in a gritty neighbourhood of downtown Toronto? Doing pretty well is the short answer.  Read more...

Filed Under: Chefs, Fall vegetables, Jewish, Recipe, Salad, Toronto, Vegan, Vegetables Tagged With: Anthony Rose, Greek, Greek salad, hummus, Jewish, restaurant, roasted cauliflower, Toronto, Vegetables

I Ate Up These Delicious Food Memoirs and So Will You

June 19, 2018

“The table could sometimes breed violence and it could be the backdrop to the proscribed and the forbidden and the perverse … But feeding people made them happy; it made me happy, and grounded me.” From “Treyf” by Elissa Altman  Read more...

Filed Under: addiction, alcoholism, Chefs, childhood, Cookbooks, Food Industry, Foodies, Healing power of food, identity, Jewish, Judith Jones, Julia Child, Recipe Tagged With: 32 yolks, anthony bourdain, books, cookbooks, david leite, elissa altman, eric ripert, Jacques Pepin, judith jones, julia child, kim severson, kitchen confidential, nigel slater, notes on a banana, spoon fed, tenth muse, The Apprentice, the hungry years, toast, treyf, Vikram Vij, william leith

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 Toronto homeless shelter for women – 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

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.  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

New York Vegetable Restaurant “Dirt Candy” is a Sweet Success

May 30, 2016

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Grilled zucchini with the Dirt Candy cookbook’s Yellow Tomato Coconut Curry Sauce

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Amanda Cohen was born and raised in Canada. Some years ago, she went to study in New York and has made that city her home ever since. These days, she has good reason to stay; her famous Dirt Candy eatery – what she calls a “vegetable restaurant” – located on the Lower East Side, is a huge hit.  Read more...

Filed Under: Chefs, Cookbooks, Recipe, Restaurant, Vegan, Vegetables Tagged With: Amanda Cohen, coconut, cookbook, curry, tomato, Vegetables

The Heat of the Kitchen: Drug and Alcohol Addiction in the Hospitality Industry

March 11, 2013

the three chefs

Left to right, Marc Thuet, John Higgins and Michael Quinn

listen-to-the-podcast“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park.
Enjoy the ride.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential:
Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Filed Under: addiction, alcoholism, ArkGlobal, Chefs, hospitality industry, John Higgins, Marc Thuet, Michael Quinn Tagged With: addicted chefs, addiction, addiction in the kitchen, alcoholism, chefs, chefs and addiction, cooks, hospitality industry

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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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