Lidia Bastianich Conquers America One Plate at a Time
Lidia Bastianich came to the USA at age 12 with her family as a refugee from the former Yugoslavia. Her heritage is Italian and so is her cooking. I chatted with her at Felidia, the flagship restauran...
13 Jan 201614min
Whole Foods Raises the Bar with Self-Serve Food
Tim Everett, prepared foods team leader at the Yonge and Sheppard Whole Foods Market in Toronto, explains their popular hot and cold food bars. I enthuse about this - my favourite way of eating. Altho...
15 Dec 201510min
A Chat with Nigella, my Kitchen Cousin
Nigella Lawson has bounced back better than ever after much-publicized personal troubles. She was recently on tour to promote her 10th cookbook and accompanying BBC TV show, both called Simply Nigella...
15 Nov 201511min
Ruth Reichl Explains the Healing Power of Cooking
Cooking, eating, and sharing food can be deeply therapeutic. Ruth Reichl takes that to heart in her new book My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life. She is a renowned restaurant critic, autho...
29 Okt 201510min
Roger Mooking is Cooking on All Burners
Roger Mooking is a Juno award winning hip-hop artist - and when he turns his talents to food, the results are no less entertaining. He is a star of Food Network and Food Network Canada who appears on ...
27 Okt 201512min
My Snack Attack Eating Chips with Peter Neal
Peter Neal and his brother Chris started their food company making croutons by hand in their mother's Aurora, Ontario kitchen. Now they distribute salsas, chips, salad dressings and more around the wo...
20 Okt 201511min
Journalist Ian Brown Eats His Way Across Canada
In the summer of 2010, Globe and Mail feature writer Ian Brown drove across Canada eating whatever came his way. That included poutine, chicken wings, breakfast and lunch at a nudist colony and a prai...
30 Sep 201512min
Gelato Fresco's Owner Tickles People with Nice Ices
I visit Gelato Fresco's factory in Toronto. Owner Hart Melvin specializes in ice cream desserts for restaurants including The Keg's Billy Miner Pie. He got into the ice cream business 30 years ago to ...
20 Sep 201512min
