This is manoomin. Maybe, spelled manomin. Either way is an Anglicization of an Anishinaabemowin word that existed long before English was introduced to the Americas. This is manomin; it…
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…
Growing up in a family that included four small children and parents who made their living by the grace of God, we rarely ate out in restaurants. Almost never.…
Baking/ Dessert/ Food Writing/ Recipes
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.…
Baking/ Breakfast/ Recipes/ Reflections
On Grandmothers and Cooking (and a recipe for Dutch Canadian rye bread/roggebrood)
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…
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…
This is Haitian soupe joumou (pumpkin soup). This is history: history of the Americas, Black history, history of freedom struggle. This is a dish of the Haitian Revolution, of…
Ontario meets the Caribbean in this colorful take on a classic Gin & Tonic. Like many other ’twenty-somethings’, I put my time in behind the bar where the tips…
I’ve been learning a lot about za’atar recently, which is appropriate given the title of this website! I first learned of it through a visit to my local middle…