‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants’ wrote Michael Pollan two books ago in In Defense of Food. That book, which laid a sort of set of reasoned, evidence-based ground rules for healthy eating, was the follow-up to The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which continues to hold its place...

If you are totally into mayo, gourmet-ishy fare , food trucks, and combining those interests on Instagram, James Cunningham’s book ‘ Eat St’ is for you.’ The paper take- home highlight reel of his adventures while hosting the TV show of the same name is packed with recipes and...

I caught up with creative non-fiction powerhouse Mary Roach by phone as she crossed the Rocky Mountains on her book tour for Gulp, which she sub-titles ‘Adventures on the Alimentary Canal’. In the audio interview below, I begin by exclaiming my delight that Roach chose a topic...

I spoke to Barton Seaver on the phone from Boston the day after the terrible bombings at the marathon. The chef, turned author, scholar, activist and National Geographic Fellow moved there in the last year, from his native Washington DC, to take the job of Health and Sustainable Food Program...

Caroline Dumas is well known in Quebec where the successful Montreal restaurateur often appears on television and in the press. Her reputation was solidified in 2010 when she published, in French, SoupeSoup, a popular cookbook bearing the name of her mini-chain of restaurants that serve...

Is there anyone who doesn’t have a crush on Nigella Lawson? There certainly wasn’t in Chatelaine magazine’s brand new test kitchen when the ever-smart and ever-sexy author-broadcaster made an appearance to chat about her cookery with food editor Claire Tansey. (See the video...

British author and journalist Bee Wilson writes the Kitchen Thinker column for the Telegraph newspaper. The title of her column is an apt description of the foundation of her work, especially her new book, Consider the Fork. Consider the Fork is a smart, but accessible, history and...

Launched in the mid-90s as a sort of love child of Gourmet Magazine and Bon Appetit, Epicurious quickly became its own online entity and one of the very first social media sites (before the term had even been coined) where users traded information and rated recipes. So, what’s a digital...

It’s a GFR holiday tradition to publish Dean Tudor’s annual list of the best new cookbooks and food and wine related tomes in bookstores now. Click here to browse the whole series. Watch for a new category of book every week. And please support your friendly neighbourhood Good Food...

It’s a GFR holiday tradition to publish Dean Tudor’s annual list of the best new cookbooks and food and wine related tomes in bookstores now. Click here for the series. Watch for a new category of book every week. And please support your friendly neighbourhood Good Food Fighter, and...

I am quite certain that Elizabeth Baird and Rose Murray have forgotten more than I’ll ever know about Canadian foodways, the business of writing about food, and six other things I’m not even aware about. So, I am always a little intimidated when called to interview icons of their...

It’s a GFR holiday tradition to publish Dean Tudor’s annual list of the best new cookbooks and food and wine related tomes in bookstores now. Click here for the series. Watch for a new category of book every week. And please support your friendly neighbourhood Good Food Fighter,...

This book is essential reading for anyone with a passion for good food: good in terms of taste, who produced it and how and where it was produced. The introduction brings together a lot of recent thinking and research on the looming global food crisis and evidence that just increasing...

It’s a GFR holiday tradition to publish Dean Tudor’s annual list of the best new cookbooks and food and wine related tomes in bookstores now. Watch for a new category of book every week. And please support your friendly neighbourhood Good Food Fighter, and expertly curated, book...

For nearly 30 year FoodShare has been at the front of the good food movement in Toronto, helping a wide array of citizens eat well and build communities centred on delicious, wholesome food in innovative and joyful ways. And yet, despite an army of chefs and food professionals who’ve...

Vegan Indian Cooking is Chicago author and blogger Anupy Singla’s second cookbook. The Chicago-based journalist-turned-author is quickly making a name for herself, developing recipes that draw on her childhood in Philadelphia, growing up in an Indian house. While the recipes in Vegan...

Sharon Hapton has always been a “soup maker” but a few years ago the Calgary businesswoman decided to take the healing powers of soup to a new level by founding Soup Sisters (and Broth Brothers). The organization gets groups of people together to make soup – a lot of soup....

 Camilla Saulsbury is on a mission to get North Americans to eat more of the ancient Andes grain, quinoa. Her new book 500 Best Quinoa Recipes is as comprehensive a guide to this “super food” that was nearly lost to world gastronomy in the aftermath of the conquest of the Inca...

Good day everyone. My first entry of the week: The wonderful Veuve Clicquot and her revolutionary empire.   Distinctively clad in Veuve Clicquot colours, this book is a biography of the Widow (Veuve) Clicquot. The trouble is that the biographer found few documents actually written by her...

Can we ever get enough of Julia, of her recipes and teachings, her passions and pure joie de vivre? It seems not – and that has become more obvious in the month since the publication of Bob Spitz’s brilliant biography, Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child, which was timed for the...

Toronto-based journalist and author Andrea Curtis’ new book is called What’s For Lunch and it’s the embodiment of one those ideas that is simultaneously original and obvious. Canada, infamously, is the only OECD nation without a national school lunch, or even nutrition, program. Even at...

Earlier this week I spoke on Skype with New York-based food writer and recipe developer Andrea Lynn about homemade pop, the subject of her new book The Artisan Soda Workshop. It features 70 recipes for making your own soft drinks using natural ingredients – many of the recipes rely on...

Robin Shulman’s Eat The City is an important but deeply fun romp through the history and present of urban agriculture and all other manners of gathering food in New York City. Maybe it’s because Shulman’s day job is a serious journalist whose byline appears in such august...