Erin Bried is one cool cat.  We met her through Twitter and have traded several messages over the past few months as she blogs, tweets and published a great looking book – How to Sew a Button.
Erin is on a mission – to have us remember, learn and share the advice of our Grandmothers.  Her [...]

It’s Friday and a Thanksgiving long weekend for many of you (we’re working in Canada today as our Thanksgiving is in October) and I thought a post on the lighter side was in order.
I was hoping to find some kinetic typing videos of Food, Inc or another food movie – instead I found a recipe [...]

He’ll be checking his list and checking it twice, he’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice…  That’s right!  Thomas Keller is coming to Toronto (you weren’t thinking about someone else now were you?
For those who don’t recognize the name, Keller is one of the top chefs in the world.  He owns multiple restaurants including [...]

It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a beer post – as winter sets in there will be more evenings at home and we’ll be sampling more than ever and enjoying a collection of cellared beer that we’ve collected over the summer.
In the mean time, there’s Beer Wars – a movie about the US [...]

Sous-vide may be a term that is unfamiliar to some – it’s a relatively new style of cooking (developed in the 1970’s and popularized recently by Thomas Keller, Heston Blumenthal, Joel Robuchon and other world-famous chefs) which cooks food at a snails pace under a vaccum.  “Sous-Vide” is French for “under vacuum.”
Chefs seal ingredients in [...]

The video below speaks more than I can possibly explain in words.
The executive summary: a non-profit group transforms an abandoned lot that was zoned for a different non-profit and grows crops for 7 years to feed the hungry, teach people how to cook healthy and get youth involved in farming in Brooklyn. Unfortunately the [...]

I did not write on the Saturday – it is a day when the majority of our group arrives and we have a lot of work, fun and a party to celebrate the annual reunion.  I was working with my Father early in the morning when we realized we needed supplies and I decided to [...]

It`s a rather unusual approach to a post today – Essentially we are turning a users comments into a post.  Al (one of his food blogs is Torontovore) produced a small video on the essentials of raising grassfed Bison in Ontario (they are not finished with grain) along with Arlene and Aaron at the Mountain [...]

Canadian singer Murray McLauchlan wrote this as a tribute for our farmers – I found this video on youtube which I found powerful – and appropriate since today we’re going for a massive walk and ending up at a local market.

Happy Saturday!

I have been meaning to post this trailer for some time.  Fresh appears to be a movie that attempts to answer some of the questions raised by many in the food movement and looks like an exciting positive spin on where we are at and where we need to be, in relation to food.

For more [...]

I’m looking forward to spending spending part of the Labour Day weekend labouring over tomato sauce….two days (at least), up to our elbows in Tomatoes…but one day, we’ll have to go to the Tomatina festival in Buñol Spain to truly revel from head to toe in Tomato love…..

more about “You say “tom-ay-to”, I say [...]

The Hellmann’s mayonnaise campaign of eating locally has raised a lot of eyebrows.  We have been researching it for the last few months and have a tough time determining our end verdict on the campaign.  More on that as it evolves.
Education costs money.  Well produced videos that grab peoples attention?  Even more money.  A 30-second [...]

Well, it’s not really a field. It’s the SCIENCE BARGE! A sustainable farm and science museum, floating on the Hudson River in New York. It’s powered by solar energy and wind energy as well as biofuels. The farm is hydroponic and uses rainwater and purified river water. According to their website, the vegetables grown on [...]

I have recently been thinking about learning to bake bread.  I am finding the thought a little intimidating.  I have no experience, no mixer, no yeast and no idea where to start.  This is also the type of challenge that I find very exciting.
I turned to Twitter for help and asked people where I should [...]

Blueberries had started to ripen and it was the start of blueberry season in Nova Scotia when we saw these last week:

We thought, at first, that they were product of Canada, then product of USA, then realized they also had the BC Grown label.  It is getting tougher and tougher to understand where our food [...]

This is a bit of a cheat – I’ve already mentioned my recently developed fondness for todays drink in our post on strawberry preserves and, secondly, I’m sure that it’s not riveting to most of you.
I am not proud to admit that I have a rather strong fondness for cola (specifically, Coke).  I know the [...]