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Cheesecake: My Entrée into Cooking and an Omen of my Culinary Career to Come

August 16, 2013

cheesecake1999 Minchenden School Reunion, North London: My friends Julie Ward Duncan and Frances Carter with our teacher Frankie Stabler and my famous first cheesecake

The above event was featured in my Toronto Star article “Confections of a British Schoolgirl” in August, 1999, and this story appeared on my website in 2013

Occasionally called “a veteran” and, more attractively, “a seasoned member” of Canada’s food media, I’ve been around for a while waxing eloquent about my consuming passion: food. Read more…

Filed Under: Cheesecake, Dessert, Podcasts, Recipe Tagged With: cheesecake, consuming passion, first food, food media career, foodie, frances carter, identity, julie ward, minchendem grammar school, north london

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

Melissa Leithwood Names This Year’s “It” Meat – No Kidding

July 31, 2011

Melissa with a terrific book by Mark Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein featuring goat meat

 

As I write, my kitchen is filled with the luscious aroma of goat curry warming in the oven. And I have Melissa Leithwood to thank for that.

I met this lovely young woman several years ago when she interviewed me over tea at the Royal York Hotel for her master’s thesis on how chefs grow their businesses sustainably and support local food. Her case study is a leader in this field: well known Toronto chef Jamie Kennedy. Read more…

Filed Under: goat, Recipe, Sleuthing Tagged With: bruce weinstein, charming personality, diploma in business, e mail, food columnist, foodie, funding proposal, goat, goat curry, goat meat, goaterie, graduate diploma in business, ivey school of business, jamie kennedy, local food, luscious aroma, marion kane, mark scarbrough, mark sisson, melissa leithwood, pie in the sky, royal york hotel, s pie, sanagans, social media, terrific book, toronto star, twitter, university of western ontario, wealth of knowledge

Love, Loss and What I Ate

February 10, 2011

My psychic bond with Nora Ephron, though one-sided (my side, of course), is a long-standing one

I have never met the brilliant American author, movie director, screenwriter, humourist and foodie but feel I know her well.

I did interview her by phone for my column in the Toronto Star a few years ago when her hilarious little book about the downside of being a middle-aged woman came out called I Feel Bad About My Neck. I could relate. Read more…

Filed Under: Foodies, Personal Change Tagged With: american author, andrea martin, autobiographical book, comic creation, food writer, foodie, humourist, meryl streep, middle aged woman, movie director, nora ephron, person accounts, psychic bond, rice pudding, sitting at the bar, stained face, tenement, toronto production, toronto star, vagina monologues

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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