"TorontoStar" news and stories

by Monika Bartyzel, Posted Sep 16th 2008 @ 1:32PM

• A run-down of the ever-tasty world of burritos in Toronto.
• Lemons are the latest tasty thing to suffer soaring prices.
• Imagine -- golden colored fat dripping off a pasture-raised chicken allowed to graze on alfalfa with the help of, get this, a mobile roof that travels through the pastures.
• Forget Coronation Street and try Coronation grapes.
• The perks of urban farming.
• The LCBO gets a push of 100+ new global wines.
• Recipes: Banana Cream Pie with Whole Grain Chocolate Crust, Salmon Cakes with Lemon Yogurt Sauce, Parmesan Zucchini Sticks with Romesco Sauce, Mediterranean Chicken, and Pasta with Spinach Cream Sauce.

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by Monika Bartyzel, Posted Sep 16th 2008 @ 1:00PM

Muffin Mania has returned -- after doing well in the '80s, Martha Prange has republished her grandmother's muffin cookbook.

A review of the long-awaited new Toronto bagel shop, Bagel World ... although it's more about the babka than the bagels.

Those super-cute mini cows are making waves in Ontario, but restricted from metropolitan Toronto life.

Wild idea: Instead of dieting, just change your eating habits a little. Eat, Drink and Be Gorgeous: A Nutritionist's Guide to Living Well While Living It Up offers that and foodie sex tips too?

Wines: Toasting summer with tasty whites and getting red for fall.

Recipes: Crab cakes.

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by Monika Bartyzel, Posted Jun 5th 2008 @ 10:01AM

• Restaurant review: Toronto's Allusion has great service, good food.
• An old, Bavarian beer hits the LCBO: Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier.
• The Cooking Ladies delight in RVs, cookbooks, and comfort foods.
• Toronto chefs join together for Cross Town Kitchens Ltd., preparing charity dinners and hoping to put the city on the culinary map.
  

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by Monika Bartyzel, Posted May 28th 2008 @ 8:00PM

• Tarapaca 2007 Sauvignon Blanc from Chile leads the wine pack, and it's under $10.
• Vancouver chef David Wong will be Canada's representative at the Bocuse d'Or, to take place this January in Lyon, France. So far, he plans to work with Angus beef tenderloin with oxtail and beef cheeks, as well as Norwegian cod with lobster.
• Is wine out of a tetra pack, rather than a bottle, really better for the environment?
• Go ethnic with your crepes and try a South Indian dosa -- they're made "from fermented rice and lentil batter, spread onto huge griddles to make thin, savoury crepes that have a mild, slightly sour flavour."

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by Monika Bartyzel, Posted May 27th 2008 @ 9:01AM

• Forget the usual Tommy Atkins mango, all tart and stringy, and invest in some creamy smooth Ataulfo.
• Two chenin wines hit LCBO shelves, plus a few others: a classic chianti, a cabernet sauvignon, chenin blanc, and rasteau.
• Sometimes it's easier to just let the professionals make it -- especially if it is pig's feet stuffed with fois gras, straight from Au Pied de Cochon -- that place Bourdain visited while in Montreal. And there's more on the feet and new cookbook here.
  
• There's no better music to my ears than news of more Mexican restaurants in Toronto. The latest -- a fresh tortilla establishment called La Tortilleria.
• The fresh taste of community-shared agriculture.
• Fiddleheads start popping up north of the 49th parallel.
• Restaurant review: Kara Mia.

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