Breakfast

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…

I’m excited about the recipe I’m sharing here: both because it is rare to see Dutch food updated in a more modern context and also because, during my research…

What are some of your favorite smells in the whole world? Maybe it’s the smell of fresh cut grass or the smell of the pavement after a warm rain…

Each summer in Toronto, the highways and main arteries of the city clog as car after car joins the exodus of city dwellers escaping the concrete heat of the…

There’s a sort of culinary mysticism that enshrouds grandmothers. They are always master cooks creating unforgettable meals, and also gatekeepers of the mystical techniques used to create these magical…

“To be Ethiopian in Israel is to be constantly struggling for something…” This recipe and article are the result of reading a recent article in Taste that profiles the…

I’m from Canada, where ‘grits’ aren’t really a thing, except as the nickname for one of our political parties. But, in the United States, it is a thing, especially in…

Traditional ‘family recipes’ don’t always lead you somewhere beautiful. When family recipes are invoked they often have a particular aura, one of ancient culinary arts buried in processes that…

As we sit on the porch in her back yard, we chat about how beautiful the berries are. Each time, she tells me about how delicious the jelly is…

Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And often we discover that those…

  I spent a year living in Ulsan, South Korea and there’s much to love about Korea. The people, the exercise machines in the middle of a forest, the…