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My Father’s Day Ode to my Late Dad Mel Schachter – a Complicated, Roly-Poly Man

June 16, 2013

mel and mel
Left, Dr. Melville Schachter in London, circa 1990. Right, graduating from McGill

 

This appeared in the Toronto Star as my column on Father’s Day, 2007.

Bittersweet. Read more…

Filed Under: Father's Day, Mel Schachter Tagged With: Bottom round steak, Doctor, Dr. Mel Schachter, Father's Day, McGill, MD, medical researcher, Medical School, Researcher, Swiss Steak, Swiss Steak Recipe

Eggless Latkes a Hit at Chanukah Feast

December 12, 2010

When asked by me some years ago why our nutty nuclear family always celebrated Christmas, my mother gave the usual explanation for her and my late dad’s often bizarre parenting decisions: “Well dear, we did it for you,” meaning me and my two younger brothers Eric and Jonny.

The reason I call this bizarre is that both my parents are Jewish. My mother Ruth Schachter is a holocaust refugee whose oil tycoon father Aaron Nisse led the family’s escape from Riga, Latvia, when she was 16 years old in the fall of 1939. A year later, she, her sister Dita and my grandparents finally settled in Montreal after taking the trans-Siberian railway through Russia, crossing the Pacific on a Japanese liner, being sprung from jail in Seattle for not having the right papers and then living in New York for six months. Quite a story and more of it when I eventually write my memoir. Read more…

Filed Under: Bakery, Chanukah, Jewish, Sleuthing, Story, Vegan Tagged With: bar mitzvahs, byng schools, chanukah, high achievers, irving layton, Jewish Cooking, Latkes, LPK's Culinary Groove, medical researcher, mordecai richler, mother ruth, mumbo, nuclear family, oil tycoon, Organic, parenting decisions, reisman, rosh hoshanah, schachter, slaughter animals, st urbain, ted allen, trans siberian railway, Vegan, Vegan Baked Goods, younger brothers

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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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