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Volume 1, Number 22 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | A Good Food Media website | News & features from the good food movement |
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Guess Who's Back... The once and future king of Niagara winemaking is back with a premium icewine just in time for the holiday rush. Malcolm Jolley finds Donald Ziraldo engaged and ever-fighting for Niagara terroir. More>> Celebrated UK artist and resident Glaswegian David Shrigley speaks with Jamie Drummond about great British banger, the ubiquity of bland continental lagers, deep-fried pizza, smoked whale meat, foraging for mushrooms and offal. More>> Jamie Drummond reports on the Canadian champions. More>> |
Greg Bolton reports on the American master chef Thomas Keller's evening at the Toronto Reference Library. More>> Jamie Drummond explains how blind tasting can lead to a step off of the oenophillic cliff. More>>
Wine Under $20: Elegant Rioja Value From one Spain's royal families of winemaking, the 2008 La Vendimia Rioja ($15.95 - LCBO# 674564) is a sunshine-filled, rich and fruity stunner at just over $15. Bold raspberry and blackcurrant notes meld with a garrigue-like spiciness. Open a good hour before serving and swish in a big glass or decant for optimum sipping and chase away dull December days.
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Captain
Crump: Ancaster's Slow Food Champion Chef Jeff Crump combines international experience and innovation with deep-rooted localism at The Ancaster Old Mill. The third in our series of profiles of Good Food Fighters. More>>
Sismondo's Holiday Food and Wine Book List Christine Sismondo rounds up her holiday book list. More>> |
Hurry: nominations to The Ontario Hostelry Institute's 2010 Top 30 Under 30 Awards close December 15. Nominate the under 30 hospitality professional you know who's making a difference by clicking here. |
Zoltan's Dec. 5 Vintages Release
Notes Super Sommelier Zoltan Szabo looks at the December 5th LCBO Vintages release
with favourite picks and tasting notes on wines from Montefalco, Napa, Southern
Spain, Tuscany, Bordeaux, The Rhone and Niagara.
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Ontario
Peanuts Believe it or
not, peanuts flourish in Ontario's continental climate. Kathleen Mackintosh
sources hers from Norfolk County where Nancy and Ernie Racz from Kernals
Peanuts grow the Valencia variety.| Culinarium,
Ontario's Locavore Store, sponsors GFR's weekly
seasonal produce report. |
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Clos Jordanne 2007: Thomas Bachelder and
Jean-Charles Boisset Jamie Drummond interviews Thomas winemaker Thomas Bachelder and Le Clos Jordanne ambassador Jean-Charles Boisset on the release of the 2007 vintage. Plus Jamie's tasting notes. More>>. Some of Toronto and Southern Ontario's best chefs competed last week for the right to represent our culinary scene at Gold Medal Plates in Vancouver, all in aid of Canada's Olympic athletes. Jamie Drummond reports on the evening. More>>
Culinarium's Weekly Ingredient Feature will return next week... |
Edible City: Kelly Jones on the New Book of
Toronto's Good Food Revolution Kelly Jones on the new book that chronicles Hogtown's food life. More>>
Brains for Breakfast? Lorette C. Luzajic
Picks her Morning Dish. Lorette C. Luzajic reviews her first meal options and offers up her favourites. More>> |
Chef Scott Vivian's New Old Traditional Fusion Local
Sustainable Wine Bar Food Chef Scott Vivian brings his Italo-Indian heritage to his farm-to-fork commitment at the new Wine Bar. The second in our series of profiles of Good Food Fighters. More>>
SLOW FOOD EVENT: Terra Madre Day - $10 - Family fun with local
producers - 6 to 9pm, Dec. 10 at Food Share. Click
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Special South African WineWhile we get ready for Whistler, South Africa is gearing up to host the FIFA World Cup in the new year. The Wines of South Africa is no exception and has pledged to train 2,010 wine stewards to greet the legions tourists set to descend on The Cape by creating the 'Fundi' line of wines. The 2007 Anwilka Fundi (LCBO# 132191 - $27) from Stellenbosch is a Cabernet driven Bordeaux blend that showcases the region's "Old-New World" profile with peppery, smoky and leathery notes fused with blackcurrant. All proceeds go to the program. Call Vintages Classics at 1-800-266-4764 to order. |
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Jamie Oliver Q&A and a Visit to Fifteen |
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| In GFR's first ever podcast, Jamie Drummond interviews Barista champion Sam James on the perfect cup. More>> | Sommelier Mark Moffat reports on a bleeding edge cocktail tasting at Hart House which revealed the secrets of Toronto's top mixologists. More>> | Malcolm Jolley visits Jamie Oliver's Fifteen Foundation and restaurants, and the man answers a few questions before his Toronto show. More>> | |
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| Five top young chefs and three top food and wine producers launched Good Food Media and Jo Dickins caught it on film. More>> | Wine editor Anne Martin will not be denied a glass of wine over a burrito. Martin explains how to pair with your favourite spicy foods. More>> | Chef Michael Steh, the charcuterie master from reds bistro and wine bar, is the first in our series of profiles of Good Food Fighters. More>> | |
Jobin on the New This week Michelle Jobin checks out The Roosevelt Room, an art deco supper club with a serious chef and gourmet aspirations for clubland. More>> |
Barbera Bargain Barolo's poorer cousin is the perfect food-friendly everyday wine for Italophiles. Nuova Cappelletta's 2007 Barbera del Monferrato (LCBO# 719518 - $16.95) balances cherry fruitiness with a whiff of cigar smoke and leather making it much more complex than most under $20 quaffers. A touch of tannin and generous acid demand something a little rich, like a pasta with a sausage ragu or (more regionally appropriately) a simple risotto. Find a bottle your nearest LCBO/Vintages by clicking here. |
Local
Heroes: Toorshi Pickles ll All
natural, all local, always made with love, Kathleen Mackintosh brought
Toorshi's Armenian-style hand-made pickles out of the farmers' markets and into
her store. | Culinarium,
Ontario's Locavore Store, sponsors
GFR's weekly
seasonal produce report. |
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Canadian Cookbook
Awards: Cuisine Canada held the 12th annual Canadian Cookbook Awards last week in Toronto to a packed house at The Royal Agricultural Fair. A complete list of winners is here, including Ricardo Larrivée's Ricardo: parce qu'on a tous de la visite: cuisiner en toutes circonstances, which won Best French Cookbook and Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid's Beyond The Great Wall, which won English Special Interest and Anita Stewart's Anita Stewart's Canada, which won Best Canadian Food Culture beating out Margaret Webb's Oysters to Apples, which won silver. But the big upset came from the Alberta recipe house founded by Jean Paré, Company's Coming, whose Small Plates For Sharing, edited by staffer Laurie Stempfle won Best English Cookbook. Stempfle's bested legendary Canadian Living food maven Elizabeth Baird, whose The Complete Canadian Living Baking Book won second place. Stempfle's slim volume also won out over Jennifer McLagan's Fat, which had had previously won Best Single Subject at The IACP Awards in February, in addition to the James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year in May. The decision left much of the Toronto fooderatti present surprised and curious. - Malcolm Jolley |
Breakfast Bowl Revolutionaries English cereal and porridge makers Camilla and Nick Barnard want you to read the label on the box on your breakfast table. The duo behind the company Rude Health have brought the good food revolution to the breakfast table, where Malcolm Jolley finds out, some of the worst culinary crimes are being committed to unaware consumers. More>> |
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The Royal Photos GFR's Ivy Knight leads photographer Dave Persaud through the
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in an exclusive photo essay.
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Sicilian Wines GFR's
Anne Martin says do not overlook Italy's most
southern region,
where the wine has never been better.
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The Cheers Factor Everybody knows Lorette Luzajic's name at
The Fitzgerald, an
East End Toronto institution. It's her Real Dish pick this week.
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Deal From The Dordogne From the land of Cyrano, east of St. Emillion,
Château Le Barradis is a lovely organic
Bergerac red, that echoes the subtlety and food-friendliness of its
Bordeaux neighbours at a fraction of the price. Versatile enough for
roast chicken or beef, with lively red and black currant notes. LCBO#
707273 - $13.95 |
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 In
(and Out of) Season: Red Fife FlourAs the days grow
shorter, Kathleen Mackintosh relies less on fresh
produce and more on Ontario staples at her locavore emporium,
Culinarium.
Mackinosh is a big promoter of red fife wheat, the strain developed near
Peterborough in the 19th C. that domesticated the prairies: "This heritage grain is a great substitute for
commercial whole wheat flour, as it should be given it is the
grandfather of all grains grown in this country. Great in pancakes,
muffins or for the more adventurous makes a delicious nutty flavoured
bread." | Culinarium,
Ontario's Locavore Store, sponsors GFR's weekly
seasonal produce report. |
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