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Cookbook: À la bonne franquette 2
/ Author of cookbook À la bonne franquette 2, where 120 Québec chefs share their best, easiest everyday recipes. Features a guide to local terroir products, food fairs and gourmet festivals...
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Québec is cooking: Hearty soups with a twist!
Should you take a trip down memory line and visit this blog’s archive, you will discover quite a few cream of vegetable soups, courtesy of my picky eaters. Soup has long been a necessary means to an...
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Quebec Bakers Association Website
Research and French copywriting, Bread History and Nutrition Client: Boulangeries Québec and Über Agency Visit: boulangeriequebec.com
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The Québec Maple Road Guide – 2013
French writing of the 2013 Québec Maple Road Guide Clients: Agence MP1 and the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (FPAQ)
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2013 Montreal Chocolate Show
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Montrealers were invited to attend — for free — the 2nd edition of “Je t’aime en chocolat”, Montreal’s Chocolate Show in Old Montreal’s famed Bonsecours Market....
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Book review: Gran Cocina Latina (with recipes!)
Disclosure: A shortened review of this book was submitted to Food52 as part of its “Community Picks” Contest. I didn’t win, but this reviewer did. Couldn’t have said it better myself. My hometown...
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What’s trending at the Montreal Health Food Show 2013?
The 2013 Edition of Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert will be held next weekend in Montreal (March 15-17), then March 23-24 in Quebec City. The event has become an annual meeting for foodies seeking to...
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Cook the Book: Salt Cod and Potato Casserole
In a previous post, I reviewed one of the books that made me yearn for the world to stop for like, hum, a year (?) just so I could cook my days away: Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America by...
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Of Turkey Marsala and Fresh Sauces
I mostly cook from scratch which is my my way of making sure my family eats healthy foods. My bechamel doesn’t come from an envelope and my—killer—tomato sauce is homemade. Once in a while, like...
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New Product Alert! Fleury Michon
A couple of years ago, I worked on the Olida Express account for a Montreal advertising agency. And Olida belongs to Fleury Michon, which is how I came to learn of this brand ubiquitous in France....
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Canadian Cheeses: Best in Show 2013
Last April 18 (yes, I’ve been too busy to blog, insert sad face), I was invited to the Hyatt Regency in Montreal for the Canadian Cheese Grand Prix gala. Seated in the large dining hall, guest cheese...
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Nominated! Taste Canada Food Writing Awards
Let’s be frank: I always thought my publisher was a mite ambitious when he nominated my terroir cookbook À la bonne franquette 2 for the Taste Canada Food Writing Awards. After all, the first edition...
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Examiner: Best Montreal Cookbooks
Sometimes you just google yourself because. And you discover a Montreal journalist shortlisted the best local cookbooks… and you’re featured! Which maybe means you (I) need to google your/myself...
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Food tourism: Ostrich Anyone?
For food tourists, chemin Fresnière — which crosses the lower Laurentians back country between St-Eustache and Mirabel — offers the kind of weekend drive enjoyed by all. Gourmet destinations stretch...
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Montreal Festivals: Martinique gourmande
The launch of the Martinique Gourmande Festival was held yesterday at Café des Éclusiers in Montreal’s Old Port (what a spectacular setting by the way). The event’s sixth edition, organized by the...
View ArticleVideo Love: Nolan’s Strong Cheddar
Filed under “Things that make me laugh”, food-related of course, here’s a video which has been a YouTube hit for awhile. But you may not know it? It’s a short film in the guise of an ad created by John...
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Contest: Home Made Lunch Event
I’ve been wanting to talk to you about the “Home Made Lunch Event” since last week but life has been the usual merry-go-round, are we surprised. The challenge, of a culinary nature of course, is...
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Event: Italian Gourmet Dinner
Do you know the Ospitalità Italiana quality seal? It stems from an initiative by Unioncamere, a worldwide association of Italian chambers of commerce in collaboration with two Italian institutes:...
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Kid Apps: Toc Toc Toc
This post is about a Québec-made kid app in French only. However the game is all-graphic and suitable for English-speaking kids. —– It’s crazy the things our kids know…and we have no idea. Case in...
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The day I became a food columnist
Today, the new Véro Magazine is launched province-wide. Think Oprah magazine, Québec-style. And wouldn’t you know, I’ve been asked to write the Cuisine column… While I’m hardly objective, rarely...
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