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The Good, The Badly Needed and The Tasty

Monday, January 30, 2012

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The Good Founding member, Anita Stewart, has been awarded the Order of Canada “for her contributions as a journalist, author and culinary activist and for her promotion of the food industry in Canada.” Over the years, two of Stewart’s cookbooks — The Flavours of Canada and Anita Stewart’s Canada — won Gold at the Canadian [...]

Tools of the Trade

Mon, Feb 14, 2011

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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

Fri, Feb 11, 2011

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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

Fri, Feb 4, 2011

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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, [...]

Culinary Students: Recipes to Riches Wants YOU

Mon, Jan 24, 2011

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Recipes-To-Riches

Are you a culinary student* with a killer recipes? If you have the winner, not only could you win up to a quarter of a million dollars, your prize could make its way to millions of tables across the country. Temple Street Productions and Shaw Media have a new Canadian competitive reality TV series in [...]

Sodium – Is it worth its weight?

Thu, Jan 20, 2011

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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

Mon, Jan 17, 2011

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InnovationsWordle

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

Fri, Jan 14, 2011

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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 [...]

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