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COLUMNIST ARTICLES
Menumental - ERIC VELLEND
Supporting Ontario farmers is all fine and dandy, but there are only so many onions, carrots and rutabagas one man can eat. That's why my motto has gone from "Eat local" to "Viva...
The most important skill for a cook - be it at home or in a professional kitchen - is how to use salt. You can buy the best ingredients and cook them perfectly, but without proper salinity the dish...
Here is the second instalment of my favourite places to eat in 2008.
BEST VALUE
While 2009 will be a tough year for many restaurants, who will miss $18 cocktails and truffle oil drizzled over...
Like Rob Fleming in High Fidelity, I love top-five lists. Here is the first instalment of my favourite places to eat in 2008.
BEST LUNCH
Gallery Grill (7 Hart House Circle, 416...
Despite profiting off the Yuletide spirit every year, I am always taken aback by the insane consumerism that grips one and all in December. Now that the economy has dipped more than just a toe into...
Here is my third annual "wine list" to help guide you at the LCBOt his holiday season. I've included the product code with the price, so you can easily check for availability at www.lcbo.com...
Anyone on a low-carb diet would have trouble living in the Dovercourt Wallace-Emerson neighbourhood. You can't walk two blocks around these parts without coming across a Portuguese bakery, its crusty...
For years my grandmother stocked my father's freezer with a dependable supply of Swedish meatballs. When she passed away, I inherited the job.
And while I share Grandma's Baltic blood, I cook with...
I've always been a pho man. Whether I'm under the weather, hung-over or on a tight budget for lunch, a big bowl of Vietnamese noodle soup never fails to put a smile on my face.
But having moved from...
In mid-September, I was making a big pot of minestrone and needed some green cabbage, an essential component of this famous soup. But the only heads on offer at my local supermarket were these giant...
In Toronto, moving neighbourhoods can be like moving countries. It's an exciting moment for a food lover.
When I lived in Leslieville, I had Vietnamese subs and Chinese barbecue to the west of me...
There is a new broccoli in town. Well, it's not exactly new.
Romanesco broccoli dates back to 16th century Italy, but Ontario farmers have only recently begun to plant it. I saw it for the first...
The trees are readying for their brilliance, the shorts are packed away and my girlfriend and I are having thermostat wars - yes, fall is in the air. It's also time for heartier fare, fortifying us...
Every parent should be skilled in the art of chocolate chip cookies. And before Health-Food Moms start penning angry e-mails, remember that kids are resourceful and will get their hands on sweets by...
I never understood the whole burrito craze. Every time I try to choke down one of those Tex-Mex torpedoes, I feel like a snake that swallowed an ambitiously large rodent and end up in the dyspepsia...
It's hard not to love a restaurant that serves a $6 glass of cava, the working-class bubbly from Spain. Actually, it's hard not to love a lot of things about Delux.
After 17 years of professional...
Under the spell of this beautiful Indian summer, it's hard to believe that autumn is just around the corner. But the days are getting shorter and it's time to hit that barbecue before you need a miner...
Making your own pickles is a true labour of love.
After shopping, processing and cleaning up, it can kill most of your day. And when a recipe isn't quite right, you often have to wait until next...
When my next-door neighbour Rosa handed me some tomatoes from her impressive garden - the plants are taller than she is - she had some over-the-fence advice for this veteran chef of 14 years: "...
Save for the occasional backyard burger, no one really wants to eat hot food in sultry August. Not only is cold (or room temperature) food a refreshing pleasure this time of year, everything can be...
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