Category: Food and lifestyle
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Swiss chard is one pretty vegetable, with bright green leaves and stalks that grow in various shades of white, red, pink, orange or yellow. Prior to setting sight on one of these multicolored bouquets, I’d never felt compelled to try to cook Swiss Chard because they had never been easily available to me. When we…
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In my latest article for Untapped Cities, I waxed poetic about the one and only Montreal bagel. I was walking on thin ice, writing about bagels on a blog that is based in New York. So far, the debate on Facebook has fallen in the Big apple’s favor, but only because the Untapped readers hailing…
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These gorgeous (and delicious) blood oranges don’t seem to know if they want to be red or orange. (See below for the blood orange and fennel recipe. Voir plus bas pour la recette de salade au fenouil et orange sanguine) When I finally mustered the will to cut these pretty things, I made the following…
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For some reason, I always end up having a job where I am required to wake up really, really early in the morning. It’s been like that pretty much constantly for the last 6 years, when I started working at a bakery. I’ve had to set my alarm as early as 4h45 AM to go…