Everyone who shops at quality food stores is by now familiar with the preservative virtues of a vacuum sealer. Whether it's for keeping packaged food fresh for weeks in your home refrigerator, or freezer burn-free for months in the deep…
There was a time not so long ago when olive oil was all but guaranteed to come packaged with a label identifying one of the three following places of origin: Italy, Greece or France. But no longer. The Australians have…
No, it’s not just for McGill and UQAM students, but Foodchain, the new veggie-phile cafeteria in the heart of downtown Montreal does have a rather rabid following among the university set. And why not: fuelling those growing brains with nutrient-packed…
Consumers looking for healthy options turn to Canadian beef for quality, taste and keeping it local. When Stock-in-Trade Butcher & Kitchen opened in Toronto’s gradually gentrifying Greenwood and Danforth neighbourhood, it became another indicator of a rapidly shifting consumer attitude…
If you like exotic mushrooms as much as we do, you probably know the maitake mushroom by its most common name, hen-of-the-woods—or possibly ram’s head or sheep’s head. And if you do not forage them yourself, come fall, you will…
It was our very own tale of two cities when Canada's 100 Best celebrated the launch of our Cooking Issue 2017 with events in Toronto and Montreal. Editor-in-Chief Jacob Richler and Publisher Geoffrey Dawe hosted food scene devotees in…
Chef Norbert Niederkofler's St. Hubertus is the ninth restaurant in Italy to be awarded a third Michelin star. The restaurant joins Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana and Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, with three Michelin stars since 1993. 356 restaurants in Italy now have one…
