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Recipe for Success – or Failure

July 8, 2020

Failed carrot cake - instead, pudding!

Failed carrot cake - instead, pudding!

The Stuffed Carrot Cake I baked was obviously a failure but it was extremely tasty as a pudding

First, a little first-person backstory.

I quit my job as food editor and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, after 18 years in 2007. It was arguably the best job for a food journalist in Canada. Four years later, I re-invented myself as a freelance Food Sleuth. Meanwhile, I did a couple of community cookbooks with residents of Toronto public housing and for an advocacy non-profit group called FoodShare. Read more…

Filed Under: 9/11, Baking, Bonnie Stern, Chef Michael Lomonaco, Chicken, Chicken, Dessert, Fall vegetables, Mairlyn Smith, New York City, Podcasts, Recipe, Toronto Tagged With: carrot cake, Chicken, Ian Brown, Jennifer Segal, Jerusalem, Mairlyn Smith, michael lomonaco, mustard sauce, nigella lawson, pudding, recipe, recipe mistakes, Sittin' in the Kitchen, Yotam Ottolenghi

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

Secret to Ultimate Meatballs Revealed

January 1, 2011

Dear readers, more proof that when I say something, I keep my word.

A few blogs ago, I reported back from Manhattan where I put in a couple of appearances at the annual Food Network Wine & Food Festival, the highlight of which was a fabulous wing-ding at a chi-chi renovated warehouse in Chelsea to raise money for hunger relief called Meatball Madness. Here, amid a bevy of stations dispensing wine, about 40 of the Big Apple’s top chefs cooked and served up their version of the meat dish du jour – from lamb meatballs to a veggie version to a delectable one stuffed with raisins and pine nuts.

The latter came from Michael Lomonaco who famously escaped the 911 disaster when he was executive chef of Windows on the World and whom I interviewed about that tragedy a few months later while attending the James Beard Awards in NYC. Now at Porter House New York, his amazing meatball creation was simply delish. Read more…

Filed Under: Beef, Recipe Tagged With: clever folks, cookbook library, cup raisins, dry skillet, food network, grated cheese, hunger relief, italian theme, italian tradition, james beard awards, lamb meatballs, meat dish, meat mixture, michael lomonaco, plain yogurt, tender texture, toasted pine nuts, windows on the world, wine food, wing ding

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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