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Ontario Farmers and Chefs Serve up a Tasty Cookbook

January 15, 2019

Farm to Table: Celebrating Stratford Chefs School Alumni, Recipes & Perth County Producers - Andrew Coppolino

Char Siu Pork in Lettuce Cups Served at a Launch for “Farm to Table”

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It was the year 2005. In search of a geographical cure with an escape to the bucolic countryside, I moved lock, stock and barrel from the big smoke of downtown Toronto where I had lived and worked for 30 years to the small rural Ontario town of Stratford – the land famous for swine and Shakespeare. Read more…

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Ginger, Recipe, Toronto Tagged With: Andrew Coppolino, Black Dog Village Pub, char siu pork shoulder, Farm to Table, Kathleen Sloan-McIntosh, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, pork, recipe, Stratford

Screen Cuisine

January 13, 2009

This article appeared in the Toronto Star on December 28,2008.

Home for the holidays? ‘Tis the perfect time for relaxing between festivities to savour some screen cuisine.

Happily, there’s no shortage of tasty offerings on several channels. Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, Chicken, Chicken, Recipe Tagged With: 100 Mile Diet, BBC, British, Deborah Reid, food network, Food TV, gordon ramsay, Hell's Kitchen, holidays, Kitchen Nightmare, recipe, roast chicken, Stratford, toronto star

Perfect Poached Pears

March 12, 2008

Being snowed in, as I was last Saturday, can be a good thing. On this occasion, cooking seemed like the ideal way to spend the day inside as I watched the blanket of snow reach several feet high outside my kitchen window.

First, I began testing TV chef Tyler Florence’s pizza dough for a column I was writing for the Toronto Star about my trip to Miami to attend the South Beach Wine & Food Festival and to escape the snow belt for the month of February.

I ended up with excellent results after three tries. Check this blog for the recipe which will appear soon along with details of that fab Florida feast on the beach. Read more…

Filed Under: Chefs, Dessert, Fall Recipe, Fruit, Ginger, Pear, Recipe, Toronto Tagged With: ginger, Jamie Oliver, poached pears, port, recipe, Stratford, toronto star

Hot Tips for Cold Weather

January 26, 2008

In case you didn’t catch my chat with host Jeff Goodes on Fresh Air on CBC Radio on Saturday morning, January 27, here’s a list of places I mentioned during our discussion about eating out in winter:

Down the Street, Stratford, Ontario, especially for its warm welcome but also for the cozy decor and excellent food. Read more…

Filed Under: Food Industry, Foodies, Kensington Market, London, Restaurant, restaurant reviews, Toronto Tagged With: CBC, Jeff Goodes, Kensington, London, pho, pizza, Stratford, Toronto

The best brew

November 17, 2007

When my daughter came back from a recent trip to Sri Lanka, she brought some loose black tea in a plain paper package. Knowing that this country, formerly called Ceylon, is prime tea-growing land, I had high hopes for those aromatic leaves.

I was right. They brewed up the most deliciously balanced, flavourful yet not at all bitter, slightly sweet cuppa. With milk and a little sugar, as I like to drink tea, this was unequalled. Read more…

Filed Under: Kensington Market, Toronto Tagged With: black tea, Ceylon, kensington market, Sri Lanka, Stratford, Toronto

My Pigtail Tale

November 13, 2007

A couple of years ago, I moved to Stratford, Ont., a lovely city of 30,000 about an hour-and-a-half’s drive south-west of Toronto nestled in the snow belt on the scenic river Avon amid farm country. It’s home to a famous theatre festival, pig farming, car part factories and a well-known chefs school. A real town with enough eccentricity to welcome a vintage-clad urban type like moi who’s wont to call it the land of Shakespeare, swine and swans.

A strong believer in immersing myself in the local culture, especially when it comes to food, I recently found myself in Stratford’s cavernous newly built, fluorescent-lit Rotary Rec Complex attending an annual event of 45 years: The Sparerib and Pigtail Dinner. Read more…

Filed Under: Festival, Toronto Tagged With: pigtails, ribs, spareribs, Stratford

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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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