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Curds and Eh, Eps 8: Home Curdy Home, Kelsie Parsons reflects on his cheese tour
Say Hi to Kelsie if you see him around–he’s easy to spot. This post is part of a guest blog series by Kelsie Parsons. See the Globe and Mail piece about his travels. As August came to an end so did...
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Soupstock Needs Volunteers-and not just the soup-slurping types
You may have heard about the SoupStock event happening on October 21. Hopefully you’re thinking “200 kinds of soup, hell yah”. And you probably know the event is trying to raise awareness about the...
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Curds and Eh: Kelsie Parsons video blogs from Fromagerie Pied de Vent
Hello everyone–both Kelsie and I are excited to post the first video from his cheese adventures this summer. I am sure you’ll love (and learn) from it as much as I did. I’ll let Kelsie take it from...
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My Ottolenghi Obsession, Jerusalem and The Boss
On October 21 I saw Bruce Springsteen….. (Because the Night video from that show) Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi (picture from the Ottolenghi site) ..and also attended The Cookbook Store’s event...
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Curds and Eh 9: On Writing (a Book about Cheese)
Kelsie’s notebooks of cheese facts….(CLICK TO ENLARGE) To see video from Kelsie’s travels check his Pied de Vent post and to follow his other adventures just search “Curds and Eh” on the Cheese and...
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Canadian Cheese Grand Prix Judging Weekend
My uniform for the weekend. Hello from Montreal. If you have seen any of my tweets from the last day or so you will know that I have had the honour of being on the jury for the 2013 Canadian Cheese...
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Curds and Eh: Crannog Ale-organic, farmstead and from BC
A “Growler” of Crannog Ale Another post by Kelsie Parsons from his amazing cross-country pilgrimage. Read more here or just look for “Cheese and Eh” in the Categories drop-down menu to your right. SR...
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Canadian Cheese Grand Prix -Behind the Scenes as a Judge
The Jury for the 2013 Cheese Grand Prix. Photo courtesy of Dairy Farmers of Canada. There we are, all eight soft-lit happy cheese eaters. I thought I would introduce you to my co-jury members from our...
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I am flying 6 hours to get to lunch on Wednesday.
CLICK ON THE MENU TO SEE FULL SIZE AND BE JEALOUS HMM, I guess the above menu could have used an outline or something. Well, let’s just call it free form blogging. So I am off to San Francisco...
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Zuni Cafe, Hope and Anchor and boy is it hard to park in San Francisco
The beginning of San Francisco We drove to the Zuni Cafe straight from the airport with loads of time to get there. Or so we thought since we allowed not too much thought for finding parking (you’d...
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Curds and Eh: TGIF at Fromagerie du Presbytère (get the scoop in Kelsie’s video)
Kelsie is back with an amazing video about the festivities at Fromagerie Presbytere and some cool viz of cheesemaking taking place. If you want to read more search “Curds and Eh” in the sidebar. Or...
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Great Canadian Cheese Festival only 40 days away! Get a 25% discount on...
Hey everyone– just a reminder that the annual cheese festival taking place in Picton on June 1-2 is not so far away. Perhaps farther than Spring…..but perhaps not. Sigh. It’s an amazing weekend...
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Nickel City Chef = I’m sold on fine dining in Buffalo (yep, time to forgo...
The Coin Toss between Chef Forster and Chef Goetz If you get sweaty palms watching the cooking intensity of Iron Chef you’ll know how excited I was to be part of the 5th annual Nickel City Chef...
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Fifth Town is back (and Cape Vessey with it!)
Fifth Town, a Platinum Leed, facility is set to reopen its store end of May I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Patricia Secord, one of the new owners of Fifth Town Cheese. They are set to...
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Go East for Cheese! Meet Adam Blanchard, Newfoundland’s one-man cheese stop
Adam Blanchard with his smoked Cheddar- photo by Tad Seaborn In 2011 Adam Blanchard bought a two-pound cheese press online and taught himself cheese making, initially for friends and family but he...
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Fried Chicken for the Masses: It’s the Fried Chicken Battle Royale at the Drake
Well, the above just about says it all. But, Ivy Knight, organizer-Royale has more to say about this lip smacking event where I get to be a judge. A judge of fried chicken… I picture myself with a...
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Abandoned House or Trendy New Toronto Resto?
The Edison bulb…. Aaah yes, our menu–it’s hand scrawled on our blackboard far, far across the room. No, we don’t take reservations, but we can seat 2-6 people. Minimalist pine tree to remind our...
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Pan Con Tomate– it just SOUNDS good
photo by Tad Seaborn It’s getting close to Friday which at our house means we’re running out of food, and I’m running out of ideas and energy. Enter tomatoes on toast–which sounds much nicer being...
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