What’s Cooking – Wednesday, June 24th

Here's all the good stuff from the papers today...

Toronto Star:

• Oh noes! Whatever will we do if the boozes run out? Customers emptied the shelves at LCBO stores yesterday as a strike deadline loomed. Left behind - wine in tetrapaks and that nasty banana liquor.
• No matter how great a home cook you are, working as a restaurant pastry chef is a whole different game.
• The food in France? She goes downhill as the French enjoy their McDonald's far too much. Note to story author Vit Wagner - Jose Bove did NOT drive a bulldozer into a McDonald's - he (and a group of others) dismantled the building (mostly by hand) and used a tractor to take away the rubble.
• The French food in France may not be so fab anymore, but apparently they do it up nicely at Aggie Martin in Brampton.
• Wine - to go with grilled food. You wine guys ever get tired of writing these same articles over and over again?
• Recipes - pepper and cilantro chicken lettuce wraps and grilled figs. (Too bad - they've omitted the groan-inducing punny titles from the online edition. "Get figgy with it"!)

Toronto Sun:

• Someone named Katy Perry (should I know who that is?) likes watermelon, so obviously, you should too.
• Summertime food trends - there's ice cream!
• A recap of Second Harvest's Toronto Taste.

Globe and Mail:

• Canadian chefs share some recipes that cut down on (or omit) the salt. Plus links to the rest of the salt series the Globe has been running.
• Leslie Beck also has tips on cutting the salt.
• Seu Reidl checks out the beautiful Grey Owl cheese.
• Yup... city folks are keeping chickens.