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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

I Serve up Two of the Best Fruit Desserts I’ve Ever Tried. Yer Welcome!

July 6, 2015

french apple tart

The recipe for this French Apple Tart comes from ‘America’s Test Kitchen’

Food magazine covers often catch my eye.

Such was the case recently when I was browsing the racks of a newstand at the Toronto airport on my way to to visit my elderly mum in London, UK. Read more…

Filed Under: Apple Cake, Applesauce, Dessert, Fall Recipe, Fruit, Pie, Pie, Plums, Recipe Tagged With: apple torte, fruit desserts, plum cake, recipe

Joanne Yolles and I Get to the Core of the Matter and Bake the Ultimate Tarte Tatin

September 11, 2013

joanne yolles and tarte tatin

listen-to-the-podcastThis appeared in my column “Dish” in the Toronto Star in 2004. 

I baked my first Tarte Tatin late last fall. Read more…

Filed Under: apple, Dessert, Fall Recipe, Fruit, Joanne Yolles, Pie, Recipe Tagged With: pastry chef, tarte tatin, toronto star

Two Fall Fruit Desserts: More Proof that Sweet-and-Simple Takes the Cake

October 18, 2012


Joanne Yolles’s Delectable Plum Tart Is A Winner!

Joanne Yolles has long been my colleague, friend and baking buddy. Read more…

Filed Under: Apple Cake, Dessert, Fall Recipe, Fruit, Joanne Yolles, Plum Tart, Plums Tagged With: Breton Sablé, Breton Sables, frangipane, Joanne Yolles, pastry chef, Roasted Plums, Sablé Breton, Sables Breton, The ultimate plum tart, toronto chefs, varieties of apple, yolles

Feasting in Quebec City

July 24, 2008

QUEBEC CITY – Paul McCartney has left the building.

Wrong. He’s about to arrive by limo through the statuesque gates of the Chateau Frontenac: the landmark Fairmont hotel where he’s about to stay and where hordes of fans and paparazzi have gathered this sunny afternoon to catch a glimpse of the man who is arguably the world’s most famous musician.

Nope. The latest buzz is that McCartney, whose free outdoor concert for an audience of 200,000 happens tomorrow on the famed Plains of Abraham, has surreptitiously entered by a back door. Read more…

Filed Under: Dessert, Festival, Food Industry, Foodies, Fruit, Restaurant, Seafood Tagged With: Paul McCartney, Quebec

Perfect Poached Pears

March 12, 2008

Being snowed in, as I was last Saturday, can be a good thing. On this occasion, cooking seemed like the ideal way to spend the day inside as I watched the blanket of snow reach several feet high outside my kitchen window.

First, I began testing TV chef Tyler Florence’s pizza dough for a column I was writing for the Toronto Star about my trip to Miami to attend the South Beach Wine & Food Festival and to escape the snow belt for the month of February.

I ended up with excellent results after three tries. Check this blog for the recipe which will appear soon along with details of that fab Florida feast on the beach. Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, Dessert, Fall Recipe, Fruit, Ginger, Pear, Recipe, Toronto Tagged With: ginger, Jamie Oliver, poached pears, port, recipe, Stratford, toronto star

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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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