Category Archives: Food and Drink

In Praise of Dal…

Posted on January 26, 2013 by

Whenever I make dal, which I would estimate is about once or twice a year, I wonder why I don’t make it more often. For folks trying to save cash, it is cheap as hell. For folks that want to … Continue reading →

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Cippolinis…

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

In Market Share this week: this is gem of an onion makes the easiest, tastiest treat.

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This Week in Root Vegetables…

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

Market Share is back with a new recipe featuring nobody’s favorite Brassica: Brussels Sprouts.

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Missing New Orleans…

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

In the past few days I have heard of four different people who have just come from, or are making their way to, New Orleans. This news has left me feeling quite nostalgic for the city that I love, causing … Continue reading →

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Ottolenghi Update…

Posted on January 1, 2013 by

When we found ourselves suddenly hosting last night after the evening’s original hosts took ill, we decided that our main priority was to not have a gazillion dishes to wash at two in the morning. The best way to avoid … Continue reading →

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Inspired by Ottolenghi…

Posted on December 28, 2012 by

I always enjoy reading The New Yorker’s food issues, though I found the last one a little fluffier and puffier than usual, in particular, the portrait of Israeli-born, London-based super-chef, Yotam Ottolenghi. Perhaps I have just had enough of the … Continue reading →

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Market Share…

Posted on December 28, 2012 by

Though most of you are in the know about this turn of events, for those of you who are not on Facebook, or in Montreal, it may seem that I have been remiss in my blogging duties. In truth, however, … Continue reading →

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Mission Street Food and Market Chronicles

Posted on August 22, 2012 by

This book review was originally printed in the Montreal Mirror in October, 2011. Let’s get right to the point: Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz is awesome. Awesome. And by that I mean: … Continue reading →

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Dirty South Road Trip, 2012: Revelation #3

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of my major pet peeves when traveling is having a bad meal. Any meal, even breakfast, must offer me some kind of pleasure, for as a person who can go for quite … Continue reading →

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Dirty South Road Trip, 2012: Revelation #1

Posted on July 14, 2012 by

When I first found out that I had been invited to present a paper at a conference in New Orleans–a paper on Dancer in the Dark; the conference, Deleuze Studies–my first thought was this: family road trip. One of things that … Continue reading →

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