Garnish? We don’ want no steenkin’ garnish! Amy Rosen of the National Post explains why classic dishes are best left plain. Also in the Post, Anna Olsen has the story of a school lunch program in Niagara Falls, and the Appetizer blog has chocolate bunnies, lunch bags and microplane graters - not necessarily meant to go together, in case you were wondering.

At the Toronto Star, Kim Honey is feeling nostalgic with an article about milk delivery. I’ll show my age and admit to remembering milk delivered in glass bottles. And that pear we all tried and loved at the Royal Winter Fair has a name - the Harovin Sundown should be available in 2009. Also in the Star, Josh Rubin gets monastic with a bottle of Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock.

Joann Richard has the history of the chocolate Easter egg at the Toronto Sun, with recipes to make your own. Meanwhile, Rita DeMontis has a selection of fish dishes for Good Friday, and Elizabeth Baird has food news that includes info on a new Longo’s store, the Good Food Festival and an upcoming visit by a delegation from Slow Food University of Gastronomic Sciences (where former TasteTO writer Catherine Gerson is now a student - Hi, Catherine!).

At the Globe and Mail, Patrick White has an article on… sweet merciful crap… pigs full of Omega 3s. *sigh* Can’t we just let pigs be pigs and fish be fish? Or is this some kind of marketing scheme to get people to eat more pork? Eesh! Also in the Globe, Heather Sokoloff reviews Gordon Ramsay’s Fast Food cookbook which calls for a variety of prepared store-bought ingredients. Ramsay should watch out lest he get sucked up in the Delia Smith backlash. Alexandra Gill searches out good chocolate in Vancouver, Rob Feenie makes mac & cheese with lobster, and Beppi Crosariol visits Chablis (available by subscription only).