What’s Cooking - Wednesday, November 14th
Posted by Sheryl Kirby in news and media, what's cooking on November 14, 2007 at 4:56 pm
It’s a cookie fiesta over at the Toronto Sun, where Rita DeMontis explores the lure of the Christmas cookie. She’s also got info on how to throw a cookie-exchange party, with lots of recipes. DeMontis also remembers food communications expert Cory Clack-Streef, who recently passed away.
At the Toronto Star, Jennifer Bain finds a fungus among us as she explores the world of mushrooms. Bain also visits the new M&M Meat Shop on Front Street, where the selection is geared towards rushed condo owners (because cooking is for suckers in the suburbs… or something).
Amy Pataki looks at diner soup, and Susan Sampson offers a preview of the annual milk calendar (vegans and the casein-allergic - tough luck). Sampson’s also got a round-up of new mainstream products, and she’s nicer than I was about those Flat Earth chips. Euch!
Also in the Star, they’re reporting that the UN has proclaimed 2008 the Year of the Potato, and the folks at McCain’s (who aren’t set to see their profits go sky-high or anything with this, are they?) are utterly gleeful. And Gord Stimmell takes a break from the grape and looks at cider.
Elizabeth Renzetti of the Globe and Mail interviews a cookbook author who doesn’t know how to cook, and who doesn’t eat meat, but who nonetheless wrote a cookbook filled with recipes from Middle Eastern countries where they tend to eat a lot of meat. She didn’t bother to test those ones, yet someone gave her a book deal because she threw “Axis of Evil” into the title. Hey… it feels cool and creepy to roll my eyes this far back into my head!
Also in the Globe and Mail under “people who do know how to cook”, chef David Lee wants readers to cook a baby pig. But it’s okay to just cook a loin so you don’t have to look at its little face. Beppi Crosariol sips some rose, and Alexandra Gill reviews a Mexican place in Vancouver called Lolita’s.
