Travel Diary: A Swift Taste of Franciacorta in Northern Italy
Capriolo, Italy, May 2024 — “Va bene…wake up, wake up!” – our engaging Italian tour guide Barbara...
Read Moreby Heather Heagney | Nov 1, 2024 | Food Is Everything, Good Wine Revolution | 0
Capriolo, Italy, May 2024 — “Va bene…wake up, wake up!” – our engaging Italian tour guide Barbara...
Read Moreby Jamie Drummond | Jan 5, 2024 | GFR Opinion Piece | 0
In these early days of the new year, I thought it may be a good idea to reach out to our pool of...
Read Moreby Heather Heagney | Sep 29, 2023 | Food Is Everything, Good Food Culture | 0
For Matthew Brearley, farming his parents’ land was an inevitability, even if his first career...
Read Moreby Heather Heagney | Jul 28, 2022 | Food Is Everything | 1
“A perfectly shucked oyster slides out of its shell and onto your tongue; its silky, cold texture...
Read Moreby Heather Heagney | Apr 11, 2022 | COVID-19 2022, Food Is Everything, Good Food Culture | 0
It’s finally Spring – and while Ontario seems to be taking a while to pull off its heavy winter...
Read Moreby Heather Heagney | Feb 8, 2022 | COVID-19 2022, Food Is Everything | 0
“How’s everything?” This is something I’ve said in a restaurant probably a million times, to a...
Read Moreby Heather Heagney | Jan 5, 2022 | Try This | 0
The ball in Times Square was about to drop, Miley Cyrus was struggling with a wardrobe...
Read Moreby Heather Heagney | Dec 1, 2021 | Food Is Everything | 0
It’s a Sunday, so I’m making soup. The first thing I do is grab my bag and head out the door...
Read Moreby Heather Heagney | Nov 4, 2021 | Food Is Everything, Good Wine Revolution | 0
For Curtis Stephenson, everything changed 20 years ago when he drank Riesling with Robbie Nellis....
Read Moreby Heather Heagney | Oct 4, 2021 | Food Is Everything | 0
Food is fuel. I’ve never understood people who say this. Have they never cracked the top of a...
Read Moreby | Feb 22, 2012 | Good Food Culture | 0
Winterlude is Ottawa’s big, shiny, famous winter festival and if you haven’t yet been, you really should pack your bags. Each year throngs of tourists and city folk alike bundle up for three weekends in February to brave the Rideau Canal and take in the festivities. Gawking at ice sculptures, pulling tiny icicles from one’s eyelashes and warming up at a local pub or restaurant with a hot beverage are all common behaviours of the Winterlude goer.
Read Moreby | Dec 8, 2010 | Good Food Culture | 1
It was a crisp fall day as I made my way to White Lake, Ontario to meet with Chef Matthew Brearley of Castlegarth. This was not unfamiliar territory for me, as like Chef Brearley, I hail from this neck of the woods. They say you can’t go home again, but sometimes a journey leads you right back to where you began for a reason. For Chef Brearley and his wife Jenn, I believe that reason is the local food movement…
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