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Big Apple Bites: Weird Grasshopper Tacos and Superb Brussels Sprouts at Toloache

March 22, 2012

Brilliant Brussels Sprouts at Toloache

I recently spent four glorious days in midtown Manhattan.

For two of those, I was pretty much closeted in the Roger Smith Hotel attending back-to-back seminars at a cookbook conference. Read more…

Filed Under: Brussels sprouts, Fall vegetables, New York City, Recipe, Salad, Vegetables Tagged With: brussels sprouts, celebrity chef, comfortable shoes, epicurious, glorious days, grand central station, grasshopper, haunting photos, hubbub, jewish heritage, julian medina, lexington ave, midtown manhattan, minded souls, New York City, pumpkin seeds, roger smith hotel, sapporo, steak frites, tacos, toloache

David Chang’s Asian Take on Brussels Sprouts – my Fave Underdog Veg – is Delish!

November 12, 2011

I’ve been championing Brussels sprouts for many moons.

Some time in the 1990s, when I was food editor for the Toronto Star, I penned a piece on “underdog foods” in which I named those that have a bad rep, some of them for no apparent or justifiable reason.

The list included these items: Liver, prunes, turnips, tofu, tapioca – and Brussels sprouts.

Ever one to support the misfit and maligned (something that dates back to my childhood as a secular Jew growing up in a white-bread, white-collar suburb of North London, England), I immediately came to the rescue of these culinary underdogs. Read more…

Filed Under: Brussels sprouts, Chef David Chang, Recipe, Toronto Tagged With: Asian, brussels sprouts, David Chang, recipe, Toronto

Liver Come Back to Me!

May 26, 2009

Liver and brussels sprouts are two underdog foods that top most lists of unpopular fare. Here are two recipes that should convert even the most adamant haters.

Chicken Livers Provencal

Inspired by a dish from chef and cookbook author Jacques Pepin. Read more…

Filed Under: Chicken, Liver, Recipe Tagged With: brussels sprouts, chicken livers, chopped bacon, cloves garlic, cookbook author, crispy bits, cup chicken stock, danny meyer, dry skillet, dry white wine, freshly ground black pepper, garlic cloves, green onion, hot pepper sauce, michael romano, red wine vinegar, salt pepper, tbsp sesame seeds, toast sesame seeds, vegetarian version

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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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