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You have to write back, sometimes. Not from a mistaken belief that the pen is mightier than the sword (or the bomb or the sniper’s rifle), but from the…

I grew up with a Dutch grandfather who was a cattle farmer on the Alberta prairies. Every meal that I can remember eating at his house was beef, potatoes,…

 “Resources for simple cooking often do more harm than good.” (Tamar Adlar) It’s the stress that kills you, slowly, they say. It seeps into every pore, every relationship, every…

There’s a cookie recipe for everyone, and for every moment. My all-time favorite, though, is a chocolate chunk cookie: there’s something classic and comforting about it. Had a bad…

Eleven years. I don’t know how long it takes to make a home, but I know it can be done in eleven years. It happens slowly, in small ways.…

It begins with a sound, rather than a taste. We’re introduced to food and its context through a different sense, one we’re not used to ascribing to food, and…

There’s a lot of hand wringing around the question: How do Canadians define Canadian food? As a nation that prides itself on its multiculturalism, as well as being a…

“What are flavours without stories? What are recipes without histories?”  Lorraine Chuen “We owe it to each other to love and insist on meaningful revision until the day we…

I don’t think there is a place in this world that I am more intimate with than the kitchen in my home. It’s the singular place that I spend…

My mom has always made soup; perhaps it’s the one thing that I most associate with her cooking. It’s a homey dish for me, comfort food that I’m going…

“Giishpin waanda kendamaawnen gegoo, aabideg ntam g’gagwejikendaan maanda/ If you want to learn something, first you must learn this.” Ogimaa Mikana Project Reconciliation is dead. Though, as Jesse Wente…

Winter in North America a stark reminder of the lushness and abundance of summer. Summer is full of farmers’ markets and supermarkets loaded with the abundance of summer fruits…