If you missed quick pickles on Breakfast TV this morning, here’s what you missed…. We made Pear and clove, Peach and ginger, Prune and spices, Sweet peppers and rosemary. Quick pickles are a fast way to get pickle flavour without having to break out your grannies rusty canning equipment. These are not a true preserving [...]
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Tele-Vision of loveliness
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Stampede shirt
The Calgary Stampede is thundering this way for another 10 days of crazy cowboy shenanigans. Expect to see lots of cowboy hats, pancakes and livestock… plus some farm animals. The krazy kids over at Knifewear have come up with a wonderfully offensive shirt of a horse with all the cuts written in Japanese and Cheval [...]
8 kinds of mayo, 8 kinds of good times
Sometimes the best ideas hit you when you are stumbling drunk. So when the Breakfast TV crew drunk-texted and asked me to come on the show to make French Fries and Mayonnaise I knew they would probably need liquoring up again for the Mayo show. I arrived at 5:30 am to a round of drinking [...]
cutting edge knife
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Bitchin’ Kitchen
There’s a wicked new show on Food Network Canada starring that web-savvy slick Italian chick Nadia G from web-famous Bitchin’ Kitchen. She’s been something of a newage web chefleb in recent years who made the leap to television. The transition to tv happened last week and it was seamless. Her quirky idioms are a fresh [...]
Best Illustrated Cookbook in the world 2009!
It was such a blast to run up the aisle at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards here in Paris the other night and pick up this great little Swarovski designed trophy from Gourmand founder Edouard Cointreau. As soon as I ran down to the podium Edouard leaned in a whispered “En Francais, s’il te plait.” [...]
Lucy Waverman’s Cookbook eh-list
Lucy Waverman has the magic touch. Besides having an impressive 8 cookbooks to her name (this season’s offering is A Year in Lucy’s Kitchen) , she is also Food Editor of Food and Drink Magazine and a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail (for our global friends, G&M is the Canadian equivalent of The NY Times). She [...]
Ad Hoc at Home vs. Kitchen Scraps?
In this corner… Ad Hoc at Home is one of the most successful restauranteurs in the US. Thomas Keller built a carefully calculated empire and now he calls the shots at his numerous successful restaurants French Laundry(Haute), Per Se (tres haute), Bouchon(French Bistro) and now Ad Hoc(Family-style). Not bad for a self-taught chef… heck, he’s the [...]
Gourmand awards
Got some good news today! Kitchen Scraps: A Humorous Illustrated Cookbook will be representing Canada in the Internationally acclaimed Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in the category for ‘Best Cookbook Illustration’. We’re heading to Paris in February to find out how Kitchen Scraps does against the rest of the world at the Paris Cookbook Fair. linkscolor [...]
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