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Celebrate The Cookbook Store’s 30th Year with a Vintage Classic: Chicken Marbella

April 9, 2013

Alison Fryer, manager of The Cookbook Store (left) and Even Better Chicken Marbella (right)
Alison Fryer, manager of The Cookbook Store (left) and Chicken Marbella (right)

I have it in front of me: The original Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins first published by Workman in 1979. Read more…

Filed Under: Chicken, Cookbooks, Recipe Tagged With: baby boom generation, chicken marbella, cookbook store, julee rosso, mid 1970s, silver palate cookbook

Thomas Keller’s Sage Advice to Budding Chefs: Patience, Persistence, Practice

November 16, 2012

Famous American chef Thomas Keller

The sold-out scene at the Isabel Bader Theatre in downtown Toronto on a recent dark and stormy night was akin to a Bob Dylan concert (firsthand experience) or a gathering to hear the Dalai Lama (only hearsay). Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, New York City, Potato, Recipe, Thomas Keller, Vegetables Tagged With: american chef, chef thomas keller, cookbook store, cookbooks, dalai lama, devotees, foodie, french laundry, isabel bader theatre, napa valley, potato, recipe, restaurateur, stellar reputation, Thomas Keller

Clotilde Dusoulier Offers Food for Thought to Bloggers at George Brown College

November 14, 2011

I was already juggling a couple of things I wanted to do on a recent mid-week night when I stopped by The Cookbook Store to check out the latest offerings and chat with its resident maven/manager and my longtime buddy Alison Fryer.

Alison is plugged into all things culinary happening in our city (Toronto, by the way) and asked if I was going to George Brown College that night to hear a talk on food blogging by Clotilde Dusoulier.

I already knew about this up-and-coming young French woman from her popular little book “Chocolate & Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen.” I had also heard that she was currently at the chefs’ school in Stratford – the small Ontario town that has long been home to the famous theatre festival and was briefly home to me (more of that some other time) – as writer-in-residence.

What I didn’t know but soon realized as I sat listening to her that night in the small George Brown amphitheatre among a large group of avid bloggers, chefs and foodies was that the 30-something Ms. Dusoulier is one brilliant woman with charisma, charm and, in spite of her rising fame, a good dose of humility. Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, Dessert, Food Blogs, Recipe, Toronto, Yogurt Cake Tagged With: brilliant woman, charisma, Chocolate & Zucchini, chocolate and zucchini, city toronto, Clotilde Dusoulier, cookbook store, favourite foods, food guide, foodies, french woman, george brown, george brown college, humility, interaction with others, large group, living in paris, ontario town, recipe development, sandbox, software engineer, writer in residence, writing books

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

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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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