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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 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

End of an Era: European Quality Meats Closes in Kensington Market after 53 Years

April 15, 2012

I remember the day I was strolling through Kensington Market in the heart of downtown Toronto and realized that, for the first time in my life, I’d found that place called “home”.

It was the late-’70s and, a divorced single mum of a young daughter Esther (now 40 years old, married and a successful therapist living in B.C.), my career as a food writer was germinating.  I was also learning some hard life lessons. While dealing with a lot of painful change, I was about to find my calling.

As often happens in my life, serendipity was about to strike. Read more…

Filed Under: European Quality Meats, Kensington Market Tagged With: augusta ave, babysitter, bellevue park, daughter esther, downtown toronto, dundas, food media, food writer, gentleman, kensington market, portuguese restaurant, row house, squid, steak sandwich, stint, time in my life, town of stratford, wandering jew, younger daughter

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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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