Fare is Fowl
Turkey Layer Cake? As a holiday traditionalist (and a categorical eater), my first reaction was horror. Sitting serenely upon its porcelain pedestal were all the elements… The post Fare is Fowl...
View ArticleChuck the Pearls – Just Shuck My Oysters!
As M.F.K. Fisher once observed: “Pearls are not good to eat.” Oysters, however, are. And, while some still consider them an extravagance, as luxuries go, they’re… The post Chuck the Pearls – Just Shuck...
View ArticleFrom Beau Soleil to Fanny Bay
Armed with Bil’s list of recommendations, I walked into La Mer feeling curious and confident. Immediately upon entering, I encountered a glass case full of oysters.… The post From Beau Soleil to Fanny...
View ArticleThe At-Home Shucking Tutorial
Early into my interview, I asked Bil if there was any advantage to eating oysters in a restaurant, to which he responded (I paraphrase): No. Astonishingly,… The post The At-Home Shucking Tutorial...
View ArticleRegular Joe
“I think there’s some kind of Montreal black magic to it, that it might only work up there with all those crazy French Canadians,” says New York author and restaurateur David Chang in his introduction...
View ArticleRolling in the dough
Cerys Wilson is a baker without an oven. Or at least she was last Wednesday when I interviewed her about her new venture the Bread Exchange, an online platform where she exchanges her bread for other...
View ArticleDomaine Delahaye
I met Geneviève Dupuis of Domaine Delahaye on a windy day. The night before, the family goat, Juliette, had given birth to two squalling kids. Romeo, the buck, was in a stall nearby. The post Domaine...
View ArticleBernie’s Greens
Bernard Bonneau is over six feet tall, but when he stoops to pluck a leaf off one of his spinach plants he is like a kid in a candy shop. The grin on his face says it all. The post Bernie’s Greens...
View ArticleFerme de la Rive
When she was in chef school, Shelley Edward’s dream was to open a restaurant that served produce from her own farm. It was a novel idea back then. The post Ferme de la Rive appeared first on Rover.
View ArticleBertrand Montpetit
How many of us in Quebec are still eating from our gardens in the month of December? Global warming aside, I would hazard very few. One such fortunate man is Bertrand Montpetit, a market gardener for...
View ArticleRoy Sargent
In the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, Verdun was covered with farms. In fact, it owes its status as a municipality to a group of English and French-speaking gentleman farmers in 1874 who...
View ArticleMarci Babineau
For three years, Marci Babineau’s backyard chickens made her the poster girl for the urban chicken movement in Montreal. Media outlets big and small covered the story all the way to Toronto. The post...
View Article“Let them eat compost”
POLITICS. In this mayoralty race urban agriculture has hardly been on the lips of the front-runners. When asked by a Radio Canada journalist if he composts, Denis Coderre quipped: “I eat my compost,” a...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Hangover Breakfast
How are you feeling today? Groggy? In the ninth and final of our Posts of Christmas Past, Kathryn Sharaput offered some timeless hangover advice. The post The Ultimate Hangover Breakfast appeared first...
View ArticleWishes for knishes
Heralded by hip-hop artists and fictionalized in U.S. sitcoms, this Jewish “soul food” has been the decade-long obsession of author Laura Silver. The post Wishes for knishes appeared first on Rover.
View ArticleThe house that herring built
For four generations, Russ & Daughters has been the only surviving appetizing store in New York's Lower East Side selling Jewish deli appetizers. A testimony to the changes of the neighbourhood,...
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