After a delicious lunch at Rochelle Canteen, the East London restaurant co-owned by British chef Margot Henderson, I chew the fat with her in the kitchen of the flat she shares with her celebrity chef husband Fergus and their three children.
Two underdog vegetables, Brussels sprouts and parsnips, get a bad rap mostly because they have been victims of overcooking. My friend Mairlyn Smith and I rush to their defence with recipes and cooking tips that bring out the best in these wrongly-maligned foods.
Kerstin Rodgers aka Ms Marmite Lover – queen of London’s underground restaurants – chats with me in her kitchen in Kilburn, North London. Topics du jour: the Aga oven, homemade Marmite and women’s relationship with food.
Toronto pastry chef Joanne Yolles and Marion Kane Food Sleuth® discuss apple desserts in general and that delicious French confection Tarte Tatin in particular.
In mid-June, 2013, I sleuthed the inaugural butter tart festival in Midland, Ontario, and chatted with the contest judges including artist Charlie Pachter, Midland’s mayor and police chief and the fest’s honourary Queen of Tarts. The winning tart, out of 80 entries, was baked by Nancy Dillen of Barrie.
“Where Chefs Eat” is a collection of 2,500 places – from high-end restaurants to hot dog stands – recommended by 450 chefs from around the world. Its editor is British restaurant writer Joe Warwick.
In this podcast, I’m talking cookbooks: Why they’re so popular, why we hold them so dear and why I was so devastated when many cherished volumes from my 1,000-plus cookbook library went missing. I tell that story and speak with two people who know plenty about this subject: retired librarian Alison Sutherland and manager of The Cookbook Store in Toronto, Alison Fryer.
(“Sittin’ in the Kitchen®” – a nifty ditty by Canadian folksinger and song-writer Bob Snider)
I chatted with executive chef David Garcelon as he prepared a Waldorf Salad on the 18th floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in mid-town Manhattan. With clips from Cole Porter’s famous song: “You’re the top” and the hilarious bit from Fawlty Towers about the renowned salad.
