What’s trending at the Montreal Health Food Show 2013?
The 2013 Edition of Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert will be held next weekend in Montreal (March 15-17), then March 23-24 in Quebec City. The event has become an annual meeting for foodies seeking to find out about trendy health food stars before the rest of us. Last year, I wrote about this extraordinary [...]
2013 Montreal Chocolate Show
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Montrealers were invited to attend — for free — the 2nd edition of “Je t’aime en chocolat”, Montreal’s Chocolate Show in Old Montreal’s famed Bonsecours Market. Mycryo Coco Butter cooking demos, chocolate makers galore from Christophe Morel to Chocolats Privilège and Point G, to-die-for foie gras Rougié for [...]
My new cookbook is here!
It is finally here. The second edition of my À la bonne franquette book has landed at last, updated and expanded to 120, count’em, 120 Québec chefs in all! Regular readers of this blog may remember that, in 2010, I published the first À la bonne franquette with the help of 80 [...]
Terroir: d’Origina Boreal Spices (with recipe!)
I first discovered Boreal spices d’Origina through chef Martin Gagné of Hôtel-Musée Premières Nations in Wendake, Quebec. One of 80 chefs featured in my À la bonne franquette cookbook, he chose these indigeneous spices from Canada’s forests as his “coup de coeur” or fave local product. From Labrador tea to sweet gale [...]
Monsieur Basilic: Of basil and pink oyster mushrooms
“Would I be interested, as a food blogger, to be matched to one of 2012′s trendiest organic products from Québec?” The invitation came from Expo Manger santé et vivre vert, the annual healthy living tradeshow whose 15th Edition will be held in Montreal from March 16 to 18. Given that I have my [...]
Christmas gifts: All wine all the time
I usually write this blog in both English and French for my readers in and out of Québec. Since this post presents Christmas gift ideas that are Québécois in nature, the full-length list of recommendations can be found on the French side. For English readers, I have limited my list to bubblies that one could [...]
My best addresses: Le Crépuscule Farm (organic!)
Last weekend, our family finally watched Food Inc. I knew the movie would get to me, since I was a vegetarian for 7 years before I fell in love with a dedicated meat-lover. Still I did not expect Monsieur to react with such horror, since as an African he has witnessed many unspeakable doings on [...]
Bourassa: The height of chalet grocery
It’s the must-stop for every Laurentian chalet-goer. S. Bourassa in Les Factoreries Vallée Saint-Sauveur offers a grocery experience so unique that our family, even without the prerequisite chalet, still drives up north for a bit of shopping. Why you say? Imagine a grocery with steel shelves, Costco-style, groaning under a dizzying array of products both [...]
Talk to the nose
This past week, I was invited to an Italian Wine Tasting Salon in Montreal. Although I attended, along with 200 or more wine fanatics, truth is I am rarely able to appreciate good wine. I can sort of tell when a cru is top notch, I enjoy a feeling of complexity in my mouth, but [...]
Glenfiddich: On discovering scotch
I knew next to nothing about scotch. Worse still, I didn’t care for it. So when Glenfiddich invited me to a scotch-and-food tasting as part of their Canadian tour, let’s just say they were not preaching to the converted, but to the curious, ah yes. Which explains why, on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, I found [...]
You say apple, I say ice cider
Agrotourism: Vergers Lacroix Leaves have started falling and so have apples. Both “Week-ends de Rougemont” in Montérégie and “Pommes en fête” apple festival in the Laurentians wound down last weekend, although it is still possible to visit, pick or simply buy homemade apple products on site. I went apple picking on both Montreal’s South and [...]
Do you have the soul of a locavore?
Agrotourism: The Oka Abbey Store So you are planning a last ditch foray to the countryside for a bit of apple-a-pickin’ with family or friends? Why stop there when so many fine shops punctuate the roadside, welcoming you with a veritable bounty of homemade delicacies for the locavore in you. Case in point: The Oka [...]
On being a cookbook ghost writer
Fall 2009 — Here I was, at Ô Chalet Restaurant near Montreal’s CBC tower, celebrating with a good friend and colleague the launch of 100 recettes, 100 vedettes Centraide, my third collective cookbook as a ghost writer. From Cercles de Fermières’ Qu’est-ce qu’on mange ? cookbook to TV show Des kiwis et des hommes’ culinary [...]
Once upon a squash. Or 2. Or 10.
Agrotourism: Madame La Courge When fall comes to Montreal, apple lovers and friends can usually be found stuck in traffic as they escape to the Rougemont or Laurentians orchards for a basketful of fresh air and an orgy of apple nibbling, picking and tractor a-ridin’. Since Junior’s daycare had already planned such an outing, our [...]
Radio: Bien dans son assiette
In April 2012, I gave French CBC radio show Bien dans son assiette a 10-minute interview about a topic few dare to discuss: cookbook ghostwriting. One of the many hats I wear as a food writer, actually. Although fans would like to believe famous chefs write their own books, most do not. And if [...]
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