Volume Two, Number Fourteen | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | A Good Food Media website | News & features from the good food movement

The Ontario Hostelry Institute has announced its 2010 Gold Award winners in anticipation of this year's gala dinner. More>>

It's Official: Ramps Are In Season

This week, ramps, or wild leeks, are the first thing pulled out of the Ontario ground this year, reports Malcolm Jolley. More>>

Wasabi Diary

Lorette C. Luzajic explains why wasabia japonica should always accompany sushi. More>>

Iceland's Mighty Chef Thor

Reykjavik's Chef Thor Eggertson, of Orange Restaurant, chats with Jamie Drummond about 'fun fine dining'. More>>

Pugliese Chef's Table

Mary Luz Mejia reports on Chef Massimo Bruno's intimate anti-restaurant dinner series celebrating traditional fare from Puglia. More>>

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The $100 A Month Diet

Naomi Klein is just one of a band of prominent Torontonians trying to eat as if they're on social assistance this week in support of The Stop's 'Do The Math' Campaign. More>>

Hogtown's Multi-Culti Pig-Out

Maia Filar celebrates the great porcine pageant that is Hogtown with eight piggy plates that are as diverse as the Torontonians who love them. More>>

Wine Under $20
The properties that constitute a grown-up wine are slippery, but Domaine de L'Idylle's 2008 L'Altesse (LCBO# 61630 - $16.95)displays many of them: a lovely dandelion bitterness, offset by lemony tartness and an undertone honeysuckle nectar sweetness darting on and off of the palate the whole time. And maybe it's the romance of springtime, but the florals in the nose have a Julie Andrews meadow brightness that seems to evoke the near Alpine location of the AOC: France's Savoie. - Malcolm Jolley

NEW: Arlene Stein tracks down favourite recipes from top chefs in Arlene's Good Food Forays. Video 1: Anthony Walsh's Basque Chicken. More>>

George's Tamworth Diary Part 3

The third instalment of George's Fiona Lim and Joel McDonald's piggy diary. More>>

PEC Pioneer Geoff Heinricks

Jamie Drummond finds author and winemaker Geoff Heinricks in his vineyards for this week's videocast. More>>

OHI Top Thirty Under Thirty

In its 20th year, The Ontario Hostelry Institute announced its 2010 Top 30 Under 30 hospitality professionals. More>>

Making Wine in Orgeon

Irene Steh continues her globe trotting oenophillic education in the PNW. More>>

Beer expert and author Nicholas Pashley reports on mass-craft brewing. More>>

In The Kitchen with MJ

Extreme-Michael-Jackson-blogger Lorette C. Luzajic explores the culinary heritage of the late King of Pop. More>>

The Status of Stratus

Jamie Drummond  reviews two new releases from legendary winemaker J.L. Groux: the 2007 Chardonnay and the 2007 Merlot. More>>