It is still not too late to sign up with a CSA this summer. Here are three in the Toronto area that I have written about:www.thefreshveggies.com has pick up locations in both the city and the suburbs. Highlights are okra and other South Asian vegetables. www.thecuttingveg.com I wrote about Daniel Hoffman’s new farm in Locavore, […]
Last night, my daughters built an incredible pillow-comforter-foot stool-bed sheet fort palace in our living room, before dinner. They came to the table in character, the elder as the queen and the younger as the princess. When the princess ate her first bite of the cross rib roast (meat from my dad’s cow) prepared just
There is something incongruous about urban bees. The idea of tending to a community of non-human life—a bee city—amid the skyscrapers, the traffic, the bustle, and the pollution of the modern metropolis is truly amazing. I think, at least in part, it explains the rapid and growing interest in keeping bees today. But urban beehives
If you are looking for seafood in Barcelona, the guidebooks will tell you that a good place to go is Barceloneta. The neighbourhood borders the city’s beaches and was once home to the fishermen who set sail from there every day to earn their living from the Mediterranean. Today’s tapas bars and seafood restaurants are some of what
Wherever I go this summer, everyone is talking about urban agriculture. Last week, I gave a talk at the Toronto Botanical Gardens (What an evening! Cool night, nice crowd, great food, amazing gardens) and toured their container and kitchen gardens with head of horticulture, Paul Zammit. He harvested fingerling potatoes from a recycling bin, hoping
During canning season last fall, an article in the New York Times Magazine quoted a woman who said when she canned peaches and pears, she was making an investment she knew would pay off. Well, every time I hear that pop when I open a jar of jam I made last summer, or open my freezer and
Locavore officially launched on Saturday at the Green Barns market in Toronto. It was a lovely affair-with delicious food made by Dawn Woodward and Ed Rek of Evelyn’s Crackers and featuring Ruth Klahsen’s (Monforte Dairy) spectacular cheese. The launch was one of many, many Locavore-related engagements. There have been already 18 interviews on radio and
Thanksgiving is one of my favourite times of the year–the harvest is in, the jams are made, the leaves are golden, and the focus is good food . On the holiday weekend, I always like to try something new with food, like making cinnamon rolls in a brick oven like we did last year. On the Sunday morning,
First I made strawberry jam, then I preserved peaches and then I made gooseberry jam–my dad and I picked baskets of the berries at the farm. I froze the extras and plan on turning them into tarts in the winter in addition to concocting lovely foods with the rhubarb I sliced and froze, the zucchini
I spent the weekend at my parents’ farm in Grey County and what a local food weekend it was! A visit to the Owen Sound farmers’ market on Saturday morning, plus the bounty from my dad’s garden, made for delicious eating. We ate smoked rainbow trout and freshly picked greens, rhubarb and lamb from a