Food Writing

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…

 “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…

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…

“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…

“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…

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…

This isn’t an advice column. There will be no sage words on how to feed your kids – lots of those types of pieces exist already. There’s really no…