Toronto’s Food Stars Come Out to Aid Japan
by Anita Stewart [This piece was originally posted at fooday.ca, the official site of Food Day...
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Tag: Anthony Walsh
Gold Medal Plates Toronto – A Whirlwind Document of the Evening’s Proceedings
An attempt to capture the excitement, the tension, and the culinary marvels at Gold Medal Plates Toronto 2010
Man, it was noisy in there!
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Stadtlander Dinner for Pakistan
Sarah Crawford reports on a remarkable dinner organized by Michael Stadtlander, with photos by John Gundy. Stadlander and friends raised money consciousness for Pakistain flood victims.
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Stadtländer’s Canadian Chefs at The Drake
On the evening of July 26, Chef Michael Stadtländer swooped down to Toronto’s Drake Hotel from Grey County and hosted a fundraiser for his new ‘Eager Beaver’ scholarship. Not only did chef roast a pig, he assembled an all-star panel of judges to determine the winner of a ‘black-box-Iron-Chef-style’ chef battle between four of the city’s hottest young talents.
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Anita Stewart’s Food Day in Canada
Here’s the scoop! Food Day Canada is always the Saturday of the first weekend in August, since in most parts of Canada there’s a holiday Monday attached. It was known till last year as “The World’s Longest Barbecue”. The goal, when I began it in 2003, was to collectively celebrate the food of Canada (specifically beef because of BSE and the devastation in that industry at the time). After that year, I included all ingredients that were and are harvested here and every year since have challenged Canadians to barbecue, or otherwise prpeare them and share their menus on a dedicated website: www.foodday.ca.
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Jamie Kennedy’s (Really Big) Communal Table at The Evergreen Brickworks
Photographer Jo Dickins captures Jamie Kennedy and friends’ communal table dinner, June 19 at the Evergreen Brick Works in this Good Food Revolution exclusive photo essay. For many the dinner, attended by several hundred keen foodies, signaled the comeback of one of Canada’s best known chefs and one of Ontario’s great local food pioneers after something of an ‘annus horribilis’.
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Prepping for Our Communal Table
There’s still time to take a seat at my Communal Table on Saturday, June 19, at the inspiring heritage site of Evergreen Brick Works. This week, I’ve been finalizing the menu, drawing upon the finest of seasonal ingredients, and carefully matched our best local wines to each of the four tantalizing courses. A sneak preview reveals just a few of many highlights: freshly-picked asparagus, tender greens, Cumbrae’s beef grilled to perfection and artisanal cheeses.
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Jamie Kennedy’s Communal Table – June 19
I’ve always wanted to create a unique, celebratory dining experience situated around a very large communal table, and now the time has come. We’ll be dining on the cusp of the summer solstice, and there isn’t a better time to take in and savour the exquisite tastes of our very own southwestern Ontario flavours.
Read MoreArlene’s Good Food Forays: Basque Chicken with Anthony Walsh
By Jamie Drummond and Arlene Stein Just the other week Arlene Stein donned her Chef’s whites and was given a step-by-step demonstration of Oliver-Bonacini Executive Chef Anthony Walsh’s Mother-In-Law’s recipe...
Read MoreJohn Gundy’s Event
by Malcolm Jolley On the evening of Thursday, March 18, the bulk Toronto’s fooderatti gathered to look at pictures of what they’ve been up to over the past five years. Chefs, restaurateurs, wine makers, even writers,...
Read MoreSous Chefs Part 4 – Amanda Ray
by John Lee Amanda Ray was smitten with food at an early age and has gone from culinary student to Sous Chef at Canoe in a relatively short period of time. Through her tenure at Oliver Bonacini, Amanda has estaged in France,...
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