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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

My Lovely Late Mum Ruth Made a Mean Beef Stroganoff

May 19, 2018

My mother Ruth Schachter (née Nisse) in the garden of her flat in Primrose Hill, London UK, in 2014

I wrote this in 2002 when I was food editor for the Toronto Star. My dear mother, 95, died peacefully in her sleep a month ago on April 21, 2018  Read more...

Filed Under: Baking, Beef Stroganoff, childhood, Dessert, identity, Jewish, Latvia, Linzertorte, London, My mum Ruth Schachter, Recipe, Riga, Women Tagged With: beef, Beef Stroganoff recipe, dessert, linzertorte, London, mum, My mum Ruth Schachter, recipe

Mum, I Knew I Was Coming So I Baked a Cake

November 30, 2015

Mum in her garden, 2014Mum with Ruthie and Esther, 2015

Top photo: My mother, Ruth Schachter, in her NW London garden in 2014

Bottom photo: Mum in 2015, after her serious fall, with my daughters Ruthie (L) and Esther (R)

In Memoriam: My mother Ruth Schachter (nee Nisse), age 95, died peacefully in her sleep at home in NW London UK on April 21, 2018.  Read more...

Filed Under: apple, Dessert, identity, Latvia, My mum Ruth Schachter, Recipe Tagged With: apple galette normande, apples, baking, Canada, daughter, holocaust, holocaust survivor, Latvia, London, memories, mother, WWII

Marion Kane, Food Sleuth®

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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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