Cuisine Canada Scene

Tools of the Trade

Recently, I posted one of my favourite food science tools on my Facebook page, and it raised a lot of eyebrows among my food friends. The term “food geek” is used on me a little too often. Food is my day job, and what keeps me up all night, and minutia relating to food science [...]

Member Q&A: Tom Littledeer

Tom Littledeer, of Carignan, Quebec, is the designer of Littledeer Mapleware Cooking Paddles, sold in fine independent cooking boutiques across Canada and at Williams-Sonoma stores in the USA.  His cooking tools are made of sustainable maple, and are manufactured with the help of 112 solar panels which power production at his shop. He strives for [...]

Member Q&A: Janet Kronick

Born in Montreal, Janet Kronick now lives happily in Hamilton Ontario, nestled within the world biosphere reserve and the Niagara escarpment. As the Historic Kitchen Coordinator at Dundurn Castle, with a  fabulous 2-acre Kitchen Garden, she enjoys educating visitors, eating local and historical cooking. What’s your weakness? Dessert or mains? Mains. I love dessert too, [...]

Sodium – Is it worth its weight?

Sodium.  It all depends on who you ask whether it is ranked among the most notorious of chemicals in our food, or one of the most essential.  Sodium has been implicated, study after study, in being one of the major causes of heart disease in Canada.  Reducing our sodium intake, on a whole, is a [...]

Innovation

Language Lessons By Dana McCauley Before I was a food person, I was a word person. In fact, I have a degree in English Literature. While some people (I’m looking at you, Dad) thought it was waste of my university degree to go to college to study culinary arts, now that I’m well established in [...]

Member Q&A: Randy Cameron

When thinking of the best of Canadian food in Winnipeg, automatically thoughts turn to the Forks Market, where  Randy has been General Manager over the past 13 years, and has been instrumental in development of the new Canadian Marketplace.  Having owned three restaurants in Winnipeg, and past General Manager of Kildonan Place Shopping Centre in [...]

Member Q&A: Dean Tudor

Dean Tudor is Ryerson University Journalism Professor Emeritus and the author of  the book Finding Answers. He taught Canadian news media, law and ethics, and computer-assisted reporting and research. He has been writing about beverage alcohol and food since 1968. His articles and books were published in the USA by Libraries Unlimited, R. R. Bowker, [...]