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A couple of months ago, inspired by Mark Bittman’s latest book and his column, I decided to experiment with savoury breakfasts. I’ve always preferred to eat savoury food in the morning anyway since I was raised bread & butter rather than bread & jam. One of Bittman’s favourites is steel cut oats dressed with whatever [...] Not having grown up in North America, I hadn’t heard of Julia Child until a few years ago and hadn’t actually watched any clips of her show until last night (!). But I’m catching up. I’m now in the middle of reading her memoir of her years in France during the 1950s, when she finally [...] I’ve been thinking a lot about sustainable farming lately. In a recent discussion about Michael Pollan’s book, a friend of mine expressed his concern that Pollan’s ideas about sustainable and organic agriculture and his criticism of big agribusiness would result in higher food prices and therefore have devastating effects on the poor around the world. [...] I’m not one to buy too many cookbooks but I love cooking magazines. My favourite at the moment is Fine Cooking for the variety of recipes, the emphasis on seasonal ingredients, and its pedagogical flair. Many recipes are actually built around teaching a particular technique or the principles behind a traditional dish. The article on [...] I was at our favourite fruit & veggie stand at Kensington Market last weekend, when I heard a woman asking one of the regulars at the store what he was doing the following monday evening. She happened to have a pass for two for a preview screening of Food Inc. at the Varsity Cinema (close [...] Today is the release date of Food Inc, a new documentary looking at the food industry that has industry officials up in arms. It looks like it touches upon many of the topics explored in detail in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma but will probably have even more of an impact because of the power [...] Last week Alan and I ended up eating out a lot, which is not good for either our wallets or our health so this week our challenge is to only eat food we prepare ourselves. Although I love to cook, that’s primarily because I love to eat and try new things so getting me to [...] I believe we are what we eat but for the longest time the whole notion of counting calories, talking about carbs, fats, proteins and nutrients seemed a bit odd to me. I tried supplements and stopped because I don’t care what anybody says – I don’t think my urine should be bright orange/yellow/green. So here [...] I wrote about Mark Bittman before but it was only today that I finally got his newly released book, Food Matters: a Guide to Conscious Eating. Much like Michael Pollan, to whom he often refers in the book, Mark Bittman calls us to be more conscientious of our eating habits and adopt what he calls [...] Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, is known to carry around, for years, the same two pieces of processed/industrialized cakes. They showed no signs of spoilage. When someone I know went to one of his lectures and told me that, I immediately remembered a friend of mine who [...] |
 Hi, I'm Alexandra. Born in Brazil, Canadian by choice, and having lived in exciting Barcelona for a year between 2006 and 2007, my earliest childhood memories revolve around food and food is what I remember most about every place I’ve ever lived. After writing a more general blog for the past few years, it was time to organize my writing about food in one place. © All pictures on this blog are taken by me unless otherwise noted. About the title of this blog |
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