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Sep 14, 2022

Chinese New Years Salad, Daal, Thai Eggplant and Chaos

A couple of nights before leaving for Sweden, I made this…well, what we would call (probably slightly abusing the term), smorgasbord. These are three recipes from The Artist Cookbook: Chia-chi’s Chinese New Years Salad (from Millie Chen), Daal (from Mariam Magsi), and HP’s Thai Eggplant (from Howard Podeswa). It was…

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Chinese New Years Salad, Daal, Thai Eggplant and Chaos
Chinese New Years Salad, Daal, Thai Eggplant and Chaos
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3 min read


Aug 28, 2022

Boiled Orange Cake…. and some thoughts on mimicry

The Guest’s Shadow is a project concerned with imitation in a number of ways, aside from the central activity of making illusions of food items. …

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Boiled Orange Cake…. and some thoughts on mimicry
Boiled Orange Cake…. and some thoughts on mimicry
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6 min read


Aug 24, 2022

Kaya from Parkdale’s Kale Salad

I write today from one of my favourite cities in the world, Stockholm. The night before we left Toronto, we staged a Guest’s Shadow exhibit at Grange Park, near the Art Gallery of Ontario, at the foot of Two Large Forms, the Henry Moore sculpture that has been relocated from…

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Kaya from Parkdale’s Kale Salad
Kaya from Parkdale’s Kale Salad
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Aug 24, 2022

The Guest’s Shadow visits Grange Park

Special thanks to Mary and Eva Mahovsky, as well as Mahsa Hosseini Naghavi for all their work on this night. Eva has helped set up, run…

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The Guest’s Shadow visits Grange Park
The Guest’s Shadow visits Grange Park
Public Art

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Aug 18, 2022

Brilliant Green Parsley Fennel Seed Sauce / Dressing / Condiment and a meditation on an ancient tool

For this recipe I used my mortar and pestle — one of my most used kitchen tools. Mine primarily sees coriander, cumin, and szechuan peppercorns — and occasionally (as in this recipe) fennel seeds. …

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Brilliant Green Parsley Fennel Seed Sauce / Dressing / Condiment and a meditation on an ancient…
Brilliant Green Parsley Fennel Seed Sauce / Dressing / Condiment and a meditation on an ancient…
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Aug 17, 2022

Silhouettes

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Public Art

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Aug 17, 2022

The Guest’s Shadow visits Jean Sibelius Park

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The Guest’s Shadow visits Jean Sibelius Park
The Guest’s Shadow visits Jean Sibelius Park
Public Art

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Aug 17, 2022

Rhubarb Improv

When I think of rhubarb, I think of it as a word spoken by extras in crowd scenes in films, to simulate conversation: a kind of spoken Lorem Ipsum. “Ladies and gentleman… in fact the killer is in this very room!” …….“Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb!” Which got me wondering about the…

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Rhubarb Improv
Rhubarb Improv
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Aug 15, 2022

Andrea from Vancouver’s Watergate salad

Andrea Nunes’ Watergate Salad Our good friend Andrea — a terrific artist and writer — delved into the category of vintage recipes and suggested the classic Watergate Salad. Versions of it have existed since the early 1900s, but it became most popular during the era of the Watergate scandal in…

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Andrea from Vancouver’s Watergate salad
Andrea from Vancouver’s Watergate salad
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Aug 11, 2022

Artichoke Dip

Artichoke Dip This is a second recipe from the wonderful Kristine Mifsud! An oldie but a goodie! This one was big in the late 80s and 90s. Or maybe it was even older, but we both remember it gracing the family holiday potluck tables around that time. …

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Artichoke Dip
Artichoke Dip
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