Gourmet Games
Join Master of Ceremonies Bob Blumer for the second annual Gourmet Games, Toronto’s Premier...
Read Moreby | Sep 19, 2014 | Good Food Events | 0
Join Master of Ceremonies Bob Blumer for the second annual Gourmet Games, Toronto’s Premier...
Read Moreby Malcolm Jolley | May 6, 2014 | Good Food Books | 0
Author, broadcaster and multiple Guinness Book of World Records holder Bob Blumer was back in...
Read Moreby Malcolm Jolley | May 9, 2013 | Good Food Events | 0
Author, broadcaster and multiple Guinness World Record holder Bob Blumer says his...
Read Moreby | May 17, 2012 | Good Food Culture | 1
Eight leading chefs from across Canada use Canadian cheeses to create tasting dishes that are paired with Canadian wine, craft beer and cider.
Read Moreby GFR Archives | Apr 26, 2012 | Good Food Events | 0
Second Harvest’s 22nd annual Toronto Taste features 60 of the city’s top chefs and 30 outstanding beverage purveyors. Taking place on Sunday, May 27th at the Royal Ontario Museum, this event will be hosted by Food Network’s Bob Blumer and Food Network Chef and recording artist Roger Mooking.
Read Moreby | Jun 8, 2011 | Good Food Events | 0
Chef Chris McDonald of Cava will revive a menu and wine service from Avalon, the restaurant he owned and operated from from 1995 to 2006 and which often topped Toronto’s best restaurants lists. The meal will be prepared in the private home of the Toronto Taste attendee who wins it in the silent auction hosted by Food Network star and cookbook author Bob Blumer, this Sunday, June 12.
Read Moreby | May 27, 2011 | Good Food Events | 0
During the event, guests will sip and stroll outdoors under tents, and indoors around museum artifacts, sampling an unforgettable array of savoury and sweet bites and refreshing libations created and served by local vintners, beverage purveyors, and chefs, including Chris McDonald, Dufflet Rosenberg, Brad Long, JP Challet and Anne Yarymowich, to name but a few.
Read Moreby Malcolm Jolley | Oct 29, 2010 | Good Food Books | 4
Blumer has made a career at focusing the joy of preparing and serving good food into easily consumed and digested cultural products, but it turns out it all came about by accident. Blumer’s first career was as a rock’n’roll manager, specifically to Jane Siberry, the Canadian avant-garde new wave chanteuse whose career he followed to California. In the early 90’s Siberry went to England to record an album with the legendary producer Brian Eno and Blumer used this hiatus to write Surreal Gourmet. “I was winging it, ” he says, “it was just my perspective on what makes a great dinner party.”
Read Moreby Malcolm Jolley | Jul 15, 2010 | Good Food Culture | 1
The food writer’s life is punctuated by some very pleasant episodes. More often than not, invitations to these episodes come from publicists and PR professionals, wishing to drum up some press for their restaurateur clients. We craven, ink-stained wretches are often more than happy to accept these invitations, as our schedules allow, on the dual grounds that: a) there may be a story in it, and b) it sounds like fun.
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