Food Musings

The High Cost of Cooking for Love

It makes me cringe hearing a chef advise young cooks to take to the stove for love, not money. I get…

Always the Sous, Never the Chef

I count my career blessings often. Some of my earliest are the lessons I learned in the restaurant where…

How to Eat Well

And no, it doesn’t involve Instagram

How Deep Is the Local Food Movement?

At some point on a recent trip to Manhattan my partner and I, both lovers of good food, asked…

My year with Russ

It was two days before Yom Kippur 2012 and Russ and Daughter’s was busier than I had ever seen it. I had been there before of course, many times. The first time I visited was with friends in 2010. I remember feeling completely elated, ecstatic and overly enthusiastic the first time my friend…

Chefs Wanted

There’s a growing chorus of concern among professional chefs on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border over labour shortages. The charge…

Taking up the Torch: Kitchen Edition

On learning to cook when Alzheimer’s stole my grandmother’s ability to do the same.

The Omnivore’s Enema: How to Break Bread With Vegetarians

You’re probably doing it wrong

My Salad Days

My father rarely questions my culinary integrity. If he does, it usually involves my endorsement of some particularly posh, expensive…