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Big Apple Bites: Weird Grasshopper Tacos and Superb Brussels Sprouts at Toloache

March 22, 2012

Brilliant Brussels Sprouts at Toloache

I recently spent four glorious days in midtown Manhattan.

For two of those, I was pretty much closeted in the Roger Smith Hotel attending back-to-back seminars at a cookbook conference. Read more…

Filed Under: Brussels sprouts, Fall vegetables, New York City, Recipe, Salad, Vegetables Tagged With: brussels sprouts, celebrity chef, comfortable shoes, epicurious, glorious days, grand central station, grasshopper, haunting photos, hubbub, jewish heritage, julian medina, lexington ave, midtown manhattan, minded souls, New York City, pumpkin seeds, roger smith hotel, sapporo, steak frites, tacos, toloache

Roger Smith Cookbook Conference was Bound to Please and a Winner in my Books

March 3, 2012

I’ll begin this blog post by serving up a link to an excellent piece of writing by a young fellow from the U.K. who was sitting next to me during one of the lively panels at the excellent two-day Roger Smith Cookbook Conference I attended recently in New York.

While I scribbled away using the old-school journo’s tools of the trade – a pen and paper – he, Nick Robinson, was calmly taking notes on some kind of tablet, checking in with Twitter and probably his e-mail at the same time.

We had a brief chat, exchanged cards and, upon my return, began following each other on Twitter and connected on LinkedIn. Read more…

Filed Under: Chicken, Cookbooks, New York City, Roger Smith Cookbook Conference, Shove-it-in-the-Oven Chicken Tagged With: cookbook, New York City, roger smith hotel

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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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