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Is gourmet olive oil really worth the price?
Some of my olive oils... This is a question that I used to ask myself when I lived around the corner from Meinhardts. They had quite a good selection of olive oils. I was always drawn in by the...
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Best Pasta in Toronto…how about Vancouver?
Last January, I was in Toronto for 2 weeks art directing a food magazine. I was surrounded by amazing ingredients, talented stylists and foodie photographers. I was also given a nice meal allowance...
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The Great Bucatini Adventure
Following my previous article on Terroni and the search for Vancouver restaurants that served bucatini all’amatriciana, my husband decided to make it himself. Joseph found two key ingredients at the...
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Diary of a Foodie
Foodists, foodie….whatever you wanna be called, it’s people who love food. Really love it. They can have long conversations criticizing, rhapsodizing and just plain obsessing about it. Sound familiar?...
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Spiced blueberry and orange olive oil muffins
It is Sunday morning, one of those rare, sunny January days where brunch plans have been cancelled last minute and I haven’t made it out to do my grocery shopping. A quick glance in my fridge is less...
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Savory Summer Watermelon Salad Recipe
Playing around with contrasting ingredients to create unlikely flavours riles me up. I love it when my guests look hesitantly at their plates at first, then burst out saying “wow, I never thought...
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What makes an olive oil special?
How often does a friend say to you, “Hold on, I want you to try this new brand of olive oil my friend is importing from Spain. It’s quite special, tell me what you think.” Well, that’s exactly what...
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Winemaker’s Grape Cake
If you aren’t familiar with Patricia Wells, you should be. She’s the doyenne of bistro cuisine, and runs what I’ve heard is the best cooking school in Provence. She has a pied-à-terre in Paris where...
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I thought I knew olive oil. I was wrong.
“The olive oil industry in North America makes me crazy.” says Tonio Creanza in his thick Italian accent to our group sitting around a large rustic table in what could only be described as a cavernous...
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