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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

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

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

Mutual Love of Prunes is One Bond I Have with Gabriella

September 20, 2018

Prune Soufflé
The Prune Soufflé that my mother used to make from her 1940s edition of the ‘Joy of Cooking’
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It was May, 2004, during a glitzy dinner celebrating that year’s James Beard Awards at a mid-Manhattan hotel.

Gabriella Gershenson, at that time a fledgling food writer living in New York, was seated next to me. I discovered that I and this soft-spoken young woman with thick, wavy black hair and a winning smile were kindred souls.  Read more...

Filed Under: Baking, Cookbooks, Dessert, Fall vegetables, Foodies, New York City, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetables, Women Tagged With: dessert, Gabriella Gershenson, Joy of Cooking, Lebanese, New York, prune souffle, recipe, stuffed zucchini, Vegetables

Cookbook Author Rob Firing is Leading a Steak Revolution

July 18, 2018

Rob Firing’s barbecued ribeye steak with service berries and garlic scapes

Rob Firing has changed my life.

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I’ll be more specific. There are two pieces of steak info he has shared with me that have made me a happy woman. This occurred before his 2018 book “Steak Revolution” came out in which he shares his enthusiastic, informative, entertaining take on steak. It includes recipes, a detailed, helpful beef chart and amazingly good photos.  Read more...

Filed Under: Beef, Cookbooks, Podcasts, Toronto Tagged With: barbecue, BBQ, cookbook, culotte, grilling, Rob Firing, steak, Steak Revolution, Toronto

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

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.  Read more...

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

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

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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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