James Taylor is wailing over his guitar. The steam is whooshing through the nozzle to warm the milk. The heads around me are leaning forward to read books and newspapers or to focus on laptops. The pre-nine a.m. crowd is now gone, and Rooster is quiet. A woman I do not know is now singing...
As I mentioned yesterday, Toronto’s playing host to the Almost Famous Chef Competition. It’s a pretty big deal for aspiring chefs. The winner of this competition will go to Napa to compete in the finals for the title of Almost Famous Chef. Organizers are looking for a judge and have opened the field to food...
A lot’s been going on in the Eat My City Bunker. You may have noticed a temporary drought in new posts on the site. That’s because your’s truly had a newborn in late September and I have had little time to write in these last four months. But with the semblance of a routine in...
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Jan 19, 2011 • Is it the intense, nut-free dark chocolate brownie with the firm icing that I am eating? Or is it the beautifully composed woman with a strawberry tart and designer clothes, who sits down beside me after spending longer than politeness requires to look at me. She begins rapid movements of stuffing forkfuls of strawberry and...
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Jan 12, 2011 • So, if you’ve been keeping the sourdough starter from the first installment of the Reuben Quest, you will have been regularly needing to throw away some of the spent starter in order to refresh it with new flour and water. If you’re at all like me, the notion of regularly and systematically throwing away foodstuffs...
As Super Bowl weekend approaches, it’s time to start thinking about and preparing your Super Bowl Chili. Chili is one of those dishes with a hundred different ways to make it (see Jackson’s Hearty Fall Chili of 2009). It is a dish that freezes well, and is always better the next day. Chili should reflect...
