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Chef Lynn Returns to Scottish Roots with Mince ‘n’ Tatties

October 15, 2017

This recipe is from the excellent cookbook ‘AT HOME with LYNN CRAWFORD’.

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When I was interviewing well-known Canadian chef Lynn Crawford for a podcast, we chatted about our long friendship, her TV career, our joint project that raised $40,000 for a new kitchen at a Toronto homeless shelter for women called Sistering – and what we like to cook at home. Read more…

Filed Under: Beef, Chefs, Fall Recipe, Fall vegetables, Peas, Potato, Recipe, Vegetables Tagged With: beef, Edinburgh, lynn crawford, podcast, potatoes, recipes, Toronto, TV

Be the Host(ess) with the Most(est)

December 23, 2009

Researching and hosting a one-hour special called “Entertaining Disaster” (aired at 4 pm December 28, 2009, on CBC Radio One), gave me food for thought.

The myriad of tales about doing things wrong when it comes to the dinner party thing – probably my favourite way of sharing good times with family and friends – made me think about how to do it right.

Here are my top dinner party tips gained from years of experience. Many of these – like most lessons in life – were learned the hard way. The menu that follows is also the result of much trial and error. Read more…

Filed Under: Peas, Recipe Tagged With: almonds, believer, buffet style, bulk food, charming host, dinner party, entrees, food store, good times, hot stove, meat dishes, miss vickie, munchies, myriad, number of guests, olives, pits, small groups, trial and error, whet the appetite

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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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