Posted by Sheryl Kirby in news and media, what's cooking on March 21, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I've got to admit, I don't get the Food Jammers. Maybe, it's a guy thing, or maybe it's an issue of practicality, but the ongoing search to make different food-cooking contraptions that exist in some form already really just hurts my head. Jen Gerson interviews the three Jammers today in The Toronto Star as they get ready to launch the second season of their popular show.
Josh Rubin reviews gluten-free beer La Messagère from Quebec while Gordon Stimmell samples the wine and food pairings for the upcoming Santé wine festival dinner.
Stuart Laidlaw interviews fair trade expert Gavin Fridell on current issues surrounding the marketing and expansion of fair trade sales. And Erin Kobayashi interviews consumer health advocate and co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Great Bird Flu Hoax, Pam Killeen about her concerns with bottled water.
Jennifer Bain looks at luxurious food novelties like the $50 square watermelon and blooming tea.
At The Sun, Rita DeMontis interviews French bartender Dimitri Lezinska and offers up a variety of cocktail recipes made with vodka that she refers to as "martinis". The martini purists here at TasteTO would like to point out that only the classic gin and vermouth combination is a real martini, that vodka and vermouth is actually called a "Kangaroo", that everything else served in a cocktail glass is a "cocktail" (there's no such thing as a martini glass), and that there's really no need to go sticking "tini" onto the end of everything - unless the cocktails you're making are really, really small.
DeMontis also visits New York City and checks out the Russian Tea Room and the $1000 breakfast at Norma's, and Elizabeth Baird cooks up a bunch of stuff with pears, all of which sounds tasty, even when she purées the fruit with turnip.
