If you live in the northeast, you will have heard about the outbreak of late blight fungus devastating tomato crops. Chef Dan Barber, of farm-to-table fame, wrote an op-ed piece for the NYT discussing the issue, and the role that home gardeners have played in spreading the fungus. The take-home message is to buy starter [...]
BBC Reports that cheese makers in Italy are working with banks to secure their loans with collateral in the form of bricks of cheese. It makes me wish I had some cheese in the bank.
via BBC NEWS
There are too many jokes that could be made about this and none of them subtle, so instead I will present this plainly. The good people at boingboing, always reliable, have found a patent application filed in 1932 for a device that injects ice cream into a banana. Apparently this never made it to market, [...]
This newly relocated seafood restaurant is the latest offering from the Glowbal corporation and sits on Alberni street across from its sibling the Italian Kitchen. Rumoured to cost more than 3 million to build, The Coast is flashy, huge, and bustling busy. It is a restaurant to see and be seen in, and features a [...]
Montrealer Nadia Giosia has scored a deal with the Food Network, after a year of spectacular audience growth for her youtube-based cooking show, Bitchin’ Kitchen. Sporting quirky humour and numerous tattoos, Nadia works her spunky appeal while drawing on her Italian roots to serve up simple, gourmet meals with a smirk. At first glance I [...]
In a recent ice cream contest in Austin Texas, food celeb and general wierdo Bob Blumer, aka “the surreal gourmet,” caused a bit of an upset as the first non-texan to take top honors. Born in Montreal and busy in LA, Bob hosts the show Glutton for Punishment, which personally I can’t watch – he [...]
Admiring the burger has come a long way recently, first with Padma’s Sordid Bacon Cheeseburger Sex Tape.”, and now with this burger Rolodex, that may be pure marketing, but it’s still 100% burger. I can’t say why its so much fun to flip the rolodex, but it is. Enjoy!
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The Tomato Fresh Food Cafe is a Cambie street classic that relocated to Kitsilano. It has a very clean interior and opens out onto a nice patio that has quickly become my brunch go-to. A great neighborhood spot, the menu is filled with fresh, organic comfort food. It can be busy on the weekend, but [...]
After being acquired earlier this year, Urbanspoon is now trying their hand at online dinner reservations, with a trial in Seattle. This puts them in direct competition with Open Table, which had a successful IPO earlier this summer. Both charge $1 per reservation, and Open Table charges $300/month to restaurant owners for their dedicated [...]
According to Jay Rayner in his book The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner, the best cut of camel meat is 10 inches below the hump. This may not be useful information in areas of the world with smaller ovens (and fewer camels) but one camel product is coming to [...]