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…
“You people love — that come here, whatever it is — you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey.” Don Cherry, “Hockey Night in Canada”…
I grew up eating pumpkin pie; it was a family favorite made by my mom over the fall holidays (never store bought). In the years since then, pumpkin pie…
Manoomin pudding with orange blossom water, roses and pistachios
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…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when the farmer’s markets are filled with local fruits and vegetables that are bursting with color and flavor! I couldn’t resist…
This recipe is for all those people who just want all those food bloggers and recipe developers to stop blabbering about how they came to develop the recipe, stop…
Donald Trump eats Tacos: Why eating and cooking diverse food won’t make you a better person (and, a recipe for Eggless Ras El Hanout Spiced Apple Cake with a Brown Butter and Rum Icing)
The ability to cook diverse food, to eat food from different places and cultures, is too often described as an enlightenment project, as a way to ‘becoming’ something else.…
Over the past two years, I’ve started a new tradition with my kids. Some time during the Christmas break we get together and make our own speculaas cookies. Speculaas…
There is this particular pathway near my house that I love; it is magical. I’ve always gravitated to it, regardless of the season, as sumac trees bend gracefully from…
There are days that are an absolute grind. Social media doesn’t normally show those; or, I don’t normally show those on my social media. It’s not that I’m trying…
Do you know how you can live right next to something and never really see it? There’s that building or that person or that restaurant that you walk by…
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…