Category: Pondering Food

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 …

Even in tropical countries people eat with the seasonsRead More »

I stayed up way too late last night reading Mark Kurlansky’s compilation of depression era food writing titled The Food of a Younger Land (with an extremely long subtitle). What a gem! A window into another time when people made food a big part of their lives, when cooking was something you did because you had to …

Baked Beans and late night readingRead More »