At a time when food sales can be driven by how Instagrammable your dish looks, veteran pastry chef Brendan Platts is bucking the trend and putting taste before looks and letting flavours stand...
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Jean-François Archambault was surrounded by a love and respect food from a young age. He says that after school, while most kids would hurry home to enjoy playing outside, he would hurry home...
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Not too long ago, we chatted with cookbook author Renée Kohlman about her journey in creating her first cookbook, ‘All the Sweet Things‘. Starting as a cook in professional kitchen, Renée began documenting...
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Photo by/par Fook Communications Pour la version française, cliquez ici. #ImmigrationMatters Hemant Bhagwani has vivid early memories of his mother cooking at home in New Delhi, India. He says becoming a chef was...
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Alberta-born Manjit Minhas is a legit beer baroness. Starting her businesses with her brother Ravinder at the age of just 19, today she has more than 90 different brands of beer, wines, spirits...
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Chef Jason Licker has an impressive resume that now includes the self-publishing of his cookbook, ‘Lickerland’. Though he began his pastry career in New York City, the majority of his professional life has...
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Flipping through Renée Kohlman’s cookbook ‘All the Sweet Things’, I stop and begin reading about ‘Gilbert and the Pear’. Here, Renée tells the story of a summer spent working in the Yukon at...
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‘Canadian cuisine’ is hard to define. We often ask chefs what they think defines ‘Canadian food’ and of course, the answer varies. As Chef Adam Ryan says, “there is no right or wrong...
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Chef Jason Licker has an impressive resume. He’s worked at Nobu in Miami, Union Square Cafe in New York City, and has helped opened Ce La Vie locations across Asia. He took home...
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Chef Jason Licker came from a family of “eaters” as he puts it. However, his interest in desserts was ironically sparked by Snackwells. A fat-free, low-sugar sandwich cookie that was marketed as a...
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