Food Glorious Food! … reviewed by Jason

Ever wonder about food? As the soil is turned, the compost added and the seeds planted for yet another year, food, and our relationship to it, is foremost on our minds: particularly those of us who garden. Food, what it is, and why and how we eat what we eat are intricate subjects. For those [...]

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Apples and Miracles … reviewed by Jason

Good food can be a great excuse to travel anywhere: fresh, local organic food even more so. These two books take you on the (back country) road to eating off the land all the while learning, or better yet re-learning, about where our food comes from and what it truly can cost to get it [...]

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Chocolate Facts from Healthy Starts Here! … written by Melani

Apparently the perfection of chocolate flavour is in the process…the more processing, the less flavanols (the anti-oxidants) – and a higher cocoa percentage, does not mean more flavanols, by the way. So, who are the makers of the best quality chocolate? Believe it or not, “Mars” is one of the leaders, Callebaut (Swiss), Naturex (French), [...]

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Laissez les bons temps rouler! … reviewed by Jason

Mardi Gras is next Tuesday, March 8. Although “Fat Tuesday” is celebrated in various festivals worldwide, most of us immediately think of the wild, colourful and musical parades and parties happening in the Big Easy, aka Crescent City: New Orleans. If you can’t physically make the trip south, these titles will let you be there [...]

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The Boreal Gourmet: Adventures in Northern Cooking … reviewed by Ann

I was listening to Sheryl MacKay on CBC radio interviewing Michele Genest about her new cookbook, The Boreal Gourmet, and was immediately intrigued when I heard the words “sourdough boot camp.” The idea of building the starter from scratch with some excellent recipes to follow sounded good to me. I was pleased to see the [...]

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