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

Bettina Bakes Bread (Arlene Assists)

Arlene Stein

Thermadoralicious!

Malcolm Jolley reports on hot young chef, Cory Vitiello's foray into show biz at a press demo for Thermadore. More>>

Two Wines Under $20


Anne Martin discovers two amazing values at the LCBO's VIntages: from Greece, the 2008 Nasiakos Mantinia LCBO# 143032 - $15.95) and from France the  2007 Château Dona Baissas Vielles Vignes (LCBO# 151282 - $17.95). More>>

Biodynamic Man, Chris Benziger

BioVino 2010

Marlise Ponzo brought her camera to BioVino, Ontario's first expo of eco-friendly wines at the Green Living Show. More>>

Monforte Hootenanny!

Photo: John Gundy
Montforte's Ruth Klahsen threw a party to thank her CSA supports and launch her new dairy, reports Joshna Maharaj. More>>

Josée Is No Pussycat

Die Küche von Frankfurt

Charity Anais seeks comfort in the back streets of Frankfurt in search of a regional herbal specialty. More>>

A Retailer Rants

Culinarium owner (and Good Food Fighter) Kathleen Mackintosh says locavore shopkeepers get no respect. More>>

Good Food Fighter Events

April 29 - New Zealand Wine Fair, Toronto
April 30 - George Italian Dinner Series
April 30 - Culinary Grand Prix at George Brown
May 1-30 - 2010 Festival of Chefs (Free)
May 8-15 - Salut Wine & Food Festival

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...

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