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As I Turn 70, Immaturity and Hair Dye Keep me Young

August 20, 2016

“Immaturity and hair dye keep me young.”

I’m repeating the title of this post for a few reasons: First, everything clever is worth repeating. It usually gets a good laugh – one of life’s giddiest pleasures, especially at my age. It’s true and unabashedly honest. It sums up what’s to follow – the announcement that I turn 70 in a few days. And last, it’s original.  Read more...

Filed Under: Chocolate, Jewish, Julia Child, London, Mel Schachter, My mum Ruth Schachter, Podcasts Tagged With: food editor, julia child, kensington market, nora ephron, turning 70; aging

Getting Ready to Celebrate the 100th birthday of Cuisine Queen Julia Child

July 23, 2012

Left: The real Julia Child hams it up with a chicken. Right: Meryl Streep in Julie and Julia.

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” — Julia Child

I’ve been a busy member of Canada’s food media for many moons – more than 30 years of telling stories about my consuming passion, 18 of them as food editor/columnist for Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star.  Read more...

Filed Under: cheese soufflé, Chefs, Foodies, Julia Child, Recipe Tagged With: author joe, bourguignonne, breaking bread, british food, cambridge mass, consuming passion, cookbook author, film legend, fondest memories, food editor, food media, JC100, julia child, Julia Child 100, many moons, meryl streep, michael lomonaco, nigella lawson, sophia loren, toronto star, windows on the world

Save the date (March 8, 2011) for Kitchen Sisters: A Fundraiser Feast

January 30, 2011

For 18 years, as food editor and food columnist for the Toronto Star, I shared my passion for things culinary.

Most important and gratifying was the joyous connection it gave me to people who enjoy and prepare food – from the Filipino taxi driver who enthusiastically described how his mother makes Chicken Adobo to the firefighters with whom I cooked and then ate a luscious, convivial meal of grilled chicken and rhubarb crumble at their downtown Toronto firehall one lovely evening.  Read more...

Filed Under: San Francisco, Sleuthing, Women Tagged With: 100th anniversary, balsamic vinegar, calamari, chicken adobo, firehall, food columnist, food editor, homeless women, international women, julia child, kitchen sisters, lovely evening, mobsters, profit groups, taxi driver, temple kitchen, top women, toronto star, witness protection plan, women chefs

Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover

November 7, 2010

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.  Read more...

Filed Under: apple, Dessert, Recipe, Story Tagged With: 24 years, apple torte, apples, bon appetit magazine, canadian newspapers, chefs, do the right thing, epicurious, final destination, food editor, friuli, garbage bin, hazelnut, home cooks, hunch, last straw, lidia bastianich, oy vey, restaurateur, spoon, squirrels

Marion Kane, Food Sleuth®

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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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