Joe Warwick and his book: “Where Chefs Eat”
Scanning the line-up of panelists for this year’s Terroir Symposium, held recently in downtown Toronto, Irish-raised Londoner Joe Warwick’s photo and bio stood out among the roster of famous chefs, well-known restaurant critics and culinary academics. Read more…
Left to right, Marc Thuet, John Higgins and Michael Quinn
“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park.
Enjoy the ride.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential:
Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Recently, I watched an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s food-and-travel TV show “No Reservations” in which he imbibed copious amounts of what he deemed exceptionally good wine at a restaurant in Croatia. The show ended with him falling off a chair and lying on the ground – seemingly comatose. Read more…
I should have heeded the above warning before I gathered ingredients and spent a couple of hours struggling – in the end, unsuccessfully – to duplicate the Apple Torte with Breadcrumb Hazelnut Crust pictured in all its supposed gorgeousity on the cover of October’s issue of Bon Appetit magazine.
This dessert is featured in an article called “Lidia’s Friuli”: a piece about Lidia Bastianich, the New York chef and restaurateur beloved and respected by so many, including me. Its credits attribute the text to Nina Elder – and a well-written text it is – and recipes to Bastianich herself. Read more…
I’ve attended plenty of fundraisers for food charities over the years and most are not to my taste.
Too many – often several hundred – well-heeled guests dressed to the nines tripping over each other to get at the food served at individual stations in a glitzy indoor venue or sometimes in the big outdoors is not my cup of tea. Their motivation is to see and be seen at an event that’s both a tax write-off and makes them feel good about visibly supporting some worthy cause.
All this seemed to be absent at Recipe for Change held recently in the west-end headquarters of the excellent non-profit outfit FoodShare for which it raised money. Read more…
