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.
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
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.
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.
