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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

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

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

Celebrate The Cookbook Store’s 30th Year with a Vintage Classic: Chicken Marbella

April 9, 2013

Alison Fryer, manager of The Cookbook Store (left) and Even Better Chicken Marbella (right)
Alison Fryer, manager of The Cookbook Store (left) and Chicken Marbella (right)

I have it in front of me: The original Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins first published by Workman in 1979. Read more…

Filed Under: Chicken, Cookbooks, Recipe Tagged With: baby boom generation, chicken marbella, cookbook store, julee rosso, mid 1970s, silver palate cookbook

Author of Epicurious Cookbook Dishes on How and Why a Recipe Rates Four Forks

December 7, 2012

Tanya Steel is editor-in-chief of epicurious.com

You know that often mis-quoted saying: “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” (Misquote: The proof is in the pudding.) Read more…

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Podcasts, Recipe Tagged With: blog, cheese puffs, editor-in-chief epicurious, epicurious, epicurious cookbook, gougeres, guyere, miniature gougeres, podcast, recipe, Tanya Steel

Roger Smith Cookbook Conference was Bound to Please and a Winner in my Books

March 3, 2012

I’ll begin this blog post by serving up a link to an excellent piece of writing by a young fellow from the U.K. who was sitting next to me during one of the lively panels at the excellent two-day Roger Smith Cookbook Conference I attended recently in New York.

While I scribbled away using the old-school journo’s tools of the trade – a pen and paper – he, Nick Robinson, was calmly taking notes on some kind of tablet, checking in with Twitter and probably his e-mail at the same time.

We had a brief chat, exchanged cards and, upon my return, began following each other on Twitter and connected on LinkedIn. Read more…

Filed Under: Chicken, Cookbooks, New York City, Roger Smith Cookbook Conference, Shove-it-in-the-Oven Chicken Tagged With: cookbook, New York City, roger smith hotel

Cauliflower Steaks, Mac’n’Cheese: Cookbook and Magazine Serve up Winners

February 1, 2012

It’s that blah mid-winter time of year and, for me, a bumpy patch on the meandering path of discovery.

The obvious antidote: cooking up a storm in my compact Kensington Market kitchen.

Much of this culinary cure for whatever ails my troubled soul is inspired by recipes from cookbooks and food magazines, both of which are on-and-off addictions.

So dear readers, as is my wont, I am about to share the fruit of my labours. In this case, it’s two recipes. Read more…

Filed Under: Cauliflower Steaks with Parsley-Pine Nut Bread Crumbs, Kensington Market, Mac'n'Cheese with Roasted Butternut Squash, Molly Stevens, Recipe, Roasting Tagged With: cauliflower steaks, cookbook, mac 'n' cheese, magazine

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

Ant, Andrew and I Make Waves on Radio Food Show

October 4, 2010

Yesterday, Andrew Coppolino, host of The Food Show that airs on Sundays from noon to 1 pm on Kitchener radio station 570 News, warned listeners that things were about to get wild, wacky and weird when he introduced me and Antony John.

(Listen or download here. Warning: there is about 20 seconds of dead air at the beginning of the recording.)

The latter is a buddy of mine and one of the reasons I moved to Stratford five years ago (others are his lovely wife Tina and the fact that my neighbours in Kensington Market were terrorizing me for reasons too dark to mention). I recently returned to live in Toronto because: Stratford has too many ducks, not enough people of colour etc. etc. (see previous blogs). But I digress. Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, Cookbooks, Story, Toronto Tagged With: Andrew Coppolino, badinage, celebrity chef, chef gordon ramsay, chef mark, coppolino, food network, food show, gordon ramsay, Hell's Kitchen, international tv, kensington market, kitchen nightmares, Kitchener, Manic Organic, mark mcewan, name speaks volumes, network tv, organic farm, organic veggies, people of colour, phone interview, restaurateur, roasting vegetables, The Food Show, wife tina

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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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