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Recipe Mistakes can be Serious

January 13, 2009

A recipe mistake can be downright dangerous.

Take the case of Aunt Vertie’s Sugar Cookies: a confection that appeared in a 1991 issue of Gourmet.

Unable to find wintergreen extract, the magazine’s testers substituted wintergreen oil in that recipe: a substance sold in some pharmacies to treat sore muscles. Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, Chocolate, Cookbooks, Dessert, Julia Child, Recipe, The Cookbook Store's 30th anniversary, Toronto Tagged With: Alison Fryer, Bon Appetit, British, cookbook store, feast, julia child, martha stewart, recipe mistakes, recipes, Rombauer, Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers, The Joy of Cooking, Toronto

Screen Cuisine

January 13, 2009

This article appeared in the Toronto Star on December 28,2008.

Home for the holidays? ‘Tis the perfect time for relaxing between festivities to savour some screen cuisine.

Happily, there’s no shortage of tasty offerings on several channels. Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, Chicken, Chicken, Recipe Tagged With: 100 Mile Diet, BBC, British, Deborah Reid, food network, Food TV, gordon ramsay, Hell's Kitchen, holidays, Kitchen Nightmare, recipe, roast chicken, 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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