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Ethiopian Food – Try It. You’ll Like It.
Last week I had off from work for our “midwinter” break. It wasn’t a very relaxing week but cooking, for me, is very relaxing. Five hours of cooking can actually be quite relaxing as well. And...
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Crispy Thai Calamari Salad – Healthy? Kinda. Fresh? Definitely.
A few years ago, my local favorite Thai take-out royally f’ed me. Ok, I’m exaggerating a bit. Have you ever had a restaurant you used to love and then horrible customer service just made you...
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Beef Milanesas: An Argentine Alternative to Beef
“In Argentina, a vegetarian is someone who orders a salad with their steak…” -Unknown Those with even a basic understanding of food history probably know that the hamburger as we know it today is an...
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Shiver me Gizzards! Salade de Gésiers
Do you ever wish you had a secret power? I don’t mean like some stupid superhero who can fly, make it rain, or look great in a unitard. I mean like a gerbil’s ability to store tasty bits in its cheeks...
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Galician Empanadas – North-West Spain’s Iconic Dish – via Buenos Aires
Being the innate pessimist that I am, watching a small boat being knocked around like a dodgem car on the rollicking, blue-grey seas at the normally placid Jersey Shore this past weekend put me in...
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Haitian Celebration: Griyot ak Diri ak Pwa(Fried, Marinated Pork Chunks with...
“Griyo is madd good. If you have neva tasted it, you are missing a lot.” So much of what we think we know of Haiti is bad – from the massive human suffering and destruction caused by January’s...
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La Bomba: Anarchy in the Kitchen
Towards the end of what is, in my opinion, his finest work, Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell tells of the bitter street fighting he witnessed in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War when the...
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Matambre: Hunger, Family and Dreams of the South
“I dream of the South, a huge moon, the sky reversed, I am looking for the South, the open time, and its thereafter.” - Vuelvo al Sur, by Astor Piazzolla One may be inspired by the unlikeliest of...
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Podcast: Montreal As A Parent
As Montreal braces for its annual mid-winter festival, a lot of which takes place au plein air as they might say, much of the US East Coast braces itself for the kind of frigid, snowy conditions that...
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Aneletti alla Palermitana: Uniquely Sicilian
“To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all,for Sicily is the clue to everything.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sicily sits apart from mainland Italy, like a rock...
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Papas a la Huancaina: The Humble Potato Bids for Immortality
Of all the miracles of modern science that we have witnessed over recent years, few have received as little attention as the 2009 announcement by the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru, that it...
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