City Rat is constantly food-blogging about trending ingredients he orders online, bristling at the latest TV food battles and going to eat at restaurants with yearlong waiting lists. Country Rat enjoys the aesthetics of leisurely reading a cookbook in a comfy chair, ambling through farmer’s markets to pick food by smell and sharing his food with friends. City Rat wants Country Rat’s ratatouille recipe so he can blog it. Continue reading
Wanna look good in a bikini? Quit stuffing yourself with fettuccini. Instead stuff yourself with slimming summer squash transformed into a very satisfying zucchini linguini. Or for the gentlemen you can just put a zucchini in your bikini…
The concept of an immortality-inducing ‘golden apple’ has been woven into folklore since the ancient Greeks. When tomatoes first showed up in Europe they were small and yellow so the Italians called them golden apples (pomo d’oro) and since then they’ve been calling tomatoes of all shapes and sizes Pomodoro. Although these yellow tomatoes won’t make you live forever, your life will still be longer and happier if you eat them. An apple a day, afterall… Continue reading
Don’t get corralled with the rest of the herd and buy frozen lamb from New Zealand. The Kiwis rear nice lamb, but that doesn’t mean the grass is greener on the other side of the world. It’s a long flight to Calgary so keep our local free-ranging lamb grounded and don’t get fleeced on the import markup.
Support the local shepherds, it’s exhausting work watching sheep jump over fences…
