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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

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

As I Turn 70, Immaturity and Hair Dye Keep me Young

August 20, 2016

“Immaturity and hair dye keep me young.”

I’m repeating the title of this post for a few reasons: First, everything clever is worth repeating. It usually gets a good laugh – one of life’s giddiest pleasures, especially at my age. It’s true and unabashedly honest. It sums up what’s to follow – the announcement that I turn 70 in a few days. And last, it’s original.  Read more...

Filed Under: Chocolate, Jewish, Julia Child, London, Mel Schachter, My mum Ruth Schachter, Podcasts Tagged With: food editor, julia child, kensington market, nora ephron, turning 70; aging

The Doc ‘Semisweet’ is Beautiful, Bittersweet – and Choco-Locate is the App for That

June 5, 2012

Nia and Awa who escaped from Côte d'Ivoire

I was attending the recent launch for the documentary Semisweet at the Royal Cinema in Toronto’s Little Italy.

I had already watched the film twice at home and was telling its producer Lalita Krishna before the screening how its poignant ending had made me cry. “That’s the sign of a good film,” she replied softly. And I agree.  Read more...

Filed Under: Choco-locate, Chocolate Tagged With: algonquin park, canadian film, chocolate documentary, cocoa plantations, côte d ivoire, documentary, healing properties, Lilita Krishna, organic chocolate, restaurateur, semisweet

London’s Hot – and Top – Spots to Nosh

June 6, 2011

Two weeks in London (U.K.) last month wasn’t long enough to sleuth the hot ‘n’ happening food scene in that fair city.  Read more...

Filed Under: Chocolate, Dessert, European Quality Meats, London, Restaurant, restaurant reviews Tagged With: Berwick St. Market, Brighton, London, Nopi, Ottolenghi, Polpetto, Sir Richard Steele, St. John Hotel, Terre, Terroirs, Travel, Yayyabs, Yotam Ottolenghi, Zlotnick's

Recipe Mistakes

January 13, 2009

A recipe mistake can be downright dangerous.

Take the case of Aunt Vertie’s Sugar Cookies: a confection that appeared in a 1991 issue of Gourmet.

Unable to find wintergreen extract, the magazine’s testers substituted wintergreen oil in that recipe: a substance sold in some pharmacies to treat sore muscles.  Read more...

Filed Under: Chefs, Chocolate, Cookbooks, Dessert, Julia Child, Recipe, The Cookbook Store's 30th anniversary, Toronto Tagged With: Alison Fryer, Bon Appetit, British, cookbook store, feast, julia child, martha stewart, recipe mistakes, recipes, Rombauer, Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers, The Joy of Cooking, Toronto

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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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