In The Papers - Saturday, December 29th
Posted by Greg Clow in in the papers, news and media on December 29, 2007 at 10:11 am
The papers are pretty light today, particularly in the food and drink coverage, due to folks being in holiday mode. So it’s a quick round-up this week:
In the Toronto Star, it looks like their website department must be taking it extra easy over the holidays, as the recipe is missing from Susan Sampson’s article on anchovies, and half of Gordon Stimmell’s wine column is missing as well. And for those looking to avoid some post-party clean-up on New Year’s Eve, Peggy MacKenzie reviews a selection of disposable dinnerware (or as we called them when I was a kid, “paper plates”). The green-minded amongst us will be happy to see that the two bio-friendly options take top marks.
In the National Post, Bonnie Stern offers some recipes that use the “nasty bits” (assuming you consider chicken liver, marrow bones or off-cuts of steak to be “nasty”).
In The Globe & Mail, Joanne Kates dishes up her 10 best & 10 worst restaurants for 2007, while Lucy Waverman borrows recipes from chefs Lynn Crawford, Anna Olson and Anthony Sedlak to create a decedent New Year’s Eve dinner. In the Globe’s Travel section, Mandy Trickett eats some lutefisk, the infamous lye-aged cod that’s a Christmas tradition in Norway, and an AP wire story on Alain Ducasse’s new Eiffel Tower restaurant includes the chef’s claim that the prices of roughly $100 per person at lunch and $200 at dinner - before wine - are “accessible to everyone”. Time for someone to give Mr. “I Have 16 Michelin Stars” a reality check, I think.
