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. …

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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. …