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%$#%^'n Chopsticks

Who invented these damn things? Don't they know there are forks? Read more →

Food Terminal or Bust!

I've been buying my produce at the St. Lawrence Market for the past 40+ years. I often speak with my guy, Murray about his daily visits to the food terminal where he buys his product. I've threatened to join him... Read more →

Food Awareness Run Amok!

My most recent article published in the Parliament Street News. Stressful Eating in the Twenty First Century Contributed by Duncan Fremlin Broker RE/MAX Hallmark Realty Ltd. Douglas Coupland, Canada’s renaissance man, wrote recently that he misses his ‘pre-internet brain’. He... Read more →

Bucket List Springs a Leak

Forgetaboutit! That's the general tone of the article recently published in The Guardian. "These are the things you should avoid before you die" writes the author, Jessica Reed. I'm a keener generally, eager to try most anything. But when I... Read more →

Good Manners is Good Business

I was in a rather nice restaurant having lunch with a client recently. It was filled with business types, young people climbing the proverbial ladder. I was surveying the scene and happened upon a gentleman across the room heartily completing... Read more →

Keith Richard's Diet

I just finished one of the best autobiographies ever, Life by Keith Richards. Man, did I read this guy wrong. I watched Weird Al Yankovic's interview with him a few years ago and that's the image I had in my... Read more →

Cooking as Theatre

I was at a birthday party last week. Actually, it wasn't really a party. The event was a birthday gift for Karen and we all got to enjoy it. The gift, courtesy her daughter Brittany, was a personalized cooking class... Read more →

Another City Walk

Over the years, in my quest to know more about the neighbourhoods I sell, I've been trekking the long streets that define who we are. So far, I've walked the Danforth, Queen Street East, Yonge Street, Kensington Market, Spadina Avenue... Read more →

Around the world in three hours!

Sunday was an exhausting day. It wasn't a hike up a mountain. It was a stroll around the world, figuratively speaking. We began our journey, appropriately enough, with a ride on perhaps the most interesting subway route in the world,... Read more →

Our plates overflow

For a 6-8 week period each year, the Ontario food basket is overflowing with goodness. Farmer's Markets are busy busy busy and the choices and colours are simply too much to bear. These markets must be avoided. This is a... Read more →

You want me to eat what?

Maybe it's because I spent much of my early life on a farm but I have this thing about wanting to know something about the food I put in my mouth and where it came from. Yes, my cousins and... Read more →