Locavores, beware Conscientious foodies have put a premium on foraged goodies such as fiddleheads and wild leeks – but popularity can come at a cost, Sarah Elton reports From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail, May 20, 2009 at 8:59 AM EDT The wild leeks are up, the fiddleheads are out and local food aficionados are licking their […]
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The difference was astounding. Truly astounding. I put a spoonful of the polenta I made from open-pollinated, stone-ground corn meal I’d bought from Mark Trealout at Kwartha Ecological Growers and I swear I heard birds singing, felt the wind in my hair and the hot sun on my face as I was transported to the
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I’ve been eating farmhouse and artisan cheese from Quebec for years, and yet I had a profound discovery at the Fromagerie Atwater counter last week in Montreal. I was at the market to tape an interview, with the CBC Radio program C’est la vie, about the chapter in my book that tells the history and story
Even though alternative food distribution represents less than 4 per cent of market, according to the folks at Local Food Plus, lately I’ve managed to eat out only in restaurants that serve local (and hopefully sustainable) food. Granted, I don’t eat out as much as I’d like these days. With two small children, dinner en famille
Just when I thought my interview with Hai Tran, owner of the Toronto restaurant Hanoi 3 Seasons, was coming to a close, I asked about spring foods. Of course, in Vietnam, a tropical country, there are seasons too!When I think spring eating, I think fiddleheads, asparagus, the fresh chives that pop up out of the
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I watched Julie and Julia last night and, despite finding the Julie part of the movie to be terribly tedious, was inspired to take my old copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking to bed with me. I inherited the book from my grandmother a few years ago and was only motivated to cook from it
The news just came in that the Ontario Municipal Board turned down SmartCentres’ application for a 700,000 square food complex in the industrial lands between Eastern and Lakeshore Blvd. This is fantastic news. Instead of acres of retail (it was likely to be Walmart) and a desert of parking, why not clean up the soil
My article on the possible link between swine flu and industrial farming that I wrote for Macleans.ca is online: No one yet knows for sure where this swine-flu came from, but the chance that pig manure spread an infection is “quite possible,” says Ellen Silbergeld, an epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
I am saddened by the move to rebrand the swine flu as H1N1. Not only is it inaccurate, as explained by an article in today’s Globe and Mail, but it obfuscates the influenza’s connection to farming. It makes it seem as if this flu bug appeared out of nowhere. True, we don’t know where the swine flu
Sunday was a gorgeous day in Prince Edward County, Ontario. The sun was shining on the spring-green fields, the sky was blue and the waves of a windy Lake Ontario were crashing on the beaches that run along the county’s coast. And so I was especially thrilled to see a good turnout at the Slow
Slow Food Fair in Picton a fabulous stop on the book tour!Read More »