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

Ivy's Ceviche Fest

FWDGF's Mireille Guiliano

Malcolm Jolley meets Mireille Guiliano for breakfast to talk about The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook. More>>

Celebrity Guide to Wine

Jamie Drummond examines what might be the most important wine film ever made. More>>

In Season Soon: Fiddleheads

After ramps come fiddleheads - the immature fronds of the ostrich fern. Best steemed or sauteed in butter, and spritzed with a squeeze of lemon, look for fiddleheads as Ontario farmers markets begin to open next week. | Culinarium, Ontario's Locavore Store, sponsors GFR's weekly seasonal produce report.

Vintages Goes Green

Marilyn and Bill Redelmeir's Southbrook winery leads a release of organic, bio-dynamic and sustainably farmed wines. Jamie Drummond and Malcolm Jolley investigate just in time for Earth Day. More>>

Corsican Red for Under $20

Jamie Drummond's selection for GFR's wine of the week is from Corsica: the 2007 Domaine Vico 'Rouge'. More>>

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What Marlise Has Been Smoking

Anne Martin at ProWein 2010

Photo: Mariusz Kapczyński
Anne Martin tastes wines from all corners of the globe at Dusseldorf's ProWein, one of Europe's biggest wine shows. More>>

Don't miss these Certified Good Food Fighter events:
April 23 - Living Vine BioVino Seminar
April 24 - Living Vine BioVino Seminar
April 25 - Living Vine BioVino Seminar
April 27 - New Zealand Wine Fair, Ottawa
April 29 - New Zealand Wine Fair, Toronto
April 30 - George Italian Dinner Series
May 1-30 - 2010 Festival of Chefs (Free)
May 8-15 - Salut Wine & Food Festival

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Next week: Bettina Schormann teaches Arlene Stein how to make bread...

Make Your Own Maki

Michelle Jobin rolls her own Hosomaki, Tekkamaki and Temaki under the watchful eye of master chef Shin Aoyam. More>>

New: Ivy's Book Review

Book Editor Ivy Knight reviews Lucinda Scala Quinn's Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys. More>>

Prepared To Be Local

Kelly Jones reports that locavorism has spread firmly to prepared foods and profiles a few chef-driven Toronto shops that have taken the ethos to heart. More>>

Underground Dining In The County

Jamie Drummond recently discovered that the "unrestaurant" phenomenon is not confined to big cities when he dined underground in Prince Edward County. More>>

NZ Winemaker Steve Green

Direct from Central Otago, Jamie Drummond interviews Carrick's Steve Green. More>>

Zoltan in Portugal

Zoltan Szabo sips his way through Portugal and is surprised by what he finds. More>>

When A Chef Goes Retail

Zara Fischer-Harrison profiles Alex Johnston who has traded restaurant kitchens for a storefront operation. More>>

In Season Now: Green Garlic
"Garlic," explains locavoriste Kathleen Mackintosh, "it's the perfect example of a seasonal food in different forms - green garlic in spring, scapes in early summer, blubs in late fall that hold us over until about February then we move into pickled or preserved garlic for a few months until spring is upon us again." The green shoots are simply young garlic plants that haven't yet developed into bulbs and cloves. Mackintosh expects to stock the first Ontario green garlic by next week.| Culinarium, Ontario's Locavore Store, sponsors GFR's weekly seasonal produce report.

Do The Math Follow-Up

After seven days of The Stop's Do The Math Campaign diet, Jamie Drummond finds out how the participants fared. More>>

Don't miss these premium Certified Good Food Fighter events:
April 23 - Living Vine BioVino Seminar
April 24 - Living Vine BioVino Seminar
April 25 - Living Vine BioVino Seminar
April 27 - New Zealand Wine Fair, Ottawa
April 29 - New Zealand Wine Fair, Toronto
April 30 - George Italian Dinner Series
May 8-15 - Salut Wine & Food Festival

Cool Climate Chardonnay
Niagara biodynamic pioneer Bill Redelmeier decided it was time for Ontario wines to make their mark on the world stage and win some recognition for talented winemakers in Niagara and PEC, so he helped organize the Seriously Cool Chardonnay tasting next month at Canada House in London. One wine that Jancis Robinson might taste there is the 2008 Southbrook Triomphe Chardonnay (LCBO# 172338 - $21.95). Winemaker Anne Sperling has made a quintessential Niagara Chardonnay, balancing the sweetening effects of oak with minerality and apple tartness. At 12.5% alcohol by volume, a glass or two at lunch ought to be easily metabolized, begging the question: will this be the first picnic/BBQ/patio wine of the season?
- Malcolm Jolley

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>>

Don't miss these great events hosted by GFR 'Good Food Fighters': click here.

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.

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 French Alpine location of the AOC: 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>>