Some time ago Good Food Revolution’s Malcolm Jolley and I were enjoy a meeting over lunch at Toronto’s excellent Le Select Bistro. Being the gregarious fellows that we are, we started chatting with Bar Manager/Sommelier Martin McNenly about a video project that he was working on...

This week we join Marine Biologist Martin Mallet at L’Étang Ruisseau, Shippagan, New Brunswick and learn a thing or two about the application of genetics in modern oyster farming. The Mallet family’s operation is at the bleeding edge of contemporary oyster aquaculture, and...

I’m always surprised that we don’t drink more Sicilian wine than we do, especially when one considers that it is the second largest wine growing region in Italy. Most people aren’t aware of the fact that with just under 300,000 acres under vine, Sicily has around the same...

Just the other week Good Food Revolution caught a fleeting glimpse of outspoken natural wine advocate Alice Feiring at Vivinum, the enormous Austrian wine conference that takes place in Vienna/Wien, Austria every two years. After a few failed attempts we finally managed to harness her...

Jeremy Day, the dapper gentleman behind an extremely curious moustache, Cafe Taste Events, and his extraordinarily fun Ontario Wine Fair, just celebrated the occasion of their 7th annual event at the Drake One Fifty this Sunday past. It was a packed house that hot day, but the gorgeous...

A renaissance woman in so many ways, Charlotte Horton of Castello di Potentino was recently in town to speak at Terroir 2014 and spread the good word about her truly fascinating Tuscan wines. Through tasting her wines I came to understand why she feels so strongly about her property and the...

I first came to know Chef John Sinopoli and Erik Joyal during my years at Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar. As they had their ahead-of-its-time Izakaya restaurant just up the alley from us, I was often knocking on their restaurant’s backdoor to borrow chairs, glasses, and to have them help me...

Considering the volume of fermented beverages we go through at the Good Food Revolution offices, it’s surprising that we have never really expanded our drinking/tasting horizons into the wonderful world of sake. In an effort to correct this we hooked up with sake expert Mariko Tajiri...

This week we take a sunny bike ride up to St. Clair West to catch up with Sandra Katsiou-Baker, proprietor of the city’s most talked-about scone emporium, Baker and Scone. After riding home with a box of her scones both savoury and sweet, then testing them out on a rather hungry young...

What with Nordic cuisine still getting so much foodster love the world over (just look at this year’s Terroir programming), Good Food Revolution jumped at the opportunity to sit down with Chefs Tommy Ranti from the Culinary Institute of Norway and Gustav Travgaardh of...

Although most of us are familiar with the simplistic, easily enjoyable delights of Vinho Verde, the wines from Portugal’s northern Minho region, very few of us have the opportunity to taste many of the finer and much, MUCH more complex examples. So this morning it was with much joy in...

The Marche region of Italy is one that doesn’t get close to the respect that it deserves, especially so when it comes to its wines. With this in mind we sat down with Umani Ronchi Winemaker Michele Bernetti in an attempt to find out his personal thoughts on this much misunderstood...

Zane Caplansky has come a long way in a short time. Just six years ago, armed with a old family recipe for smoked meat and an opportunity to rent the kitchen at The Monarch Tavern he launched a business, Caplansky’s, that’s now a famous deli, a food truck operation, a line of...

This week we cosy up to the Gladstone Hotel‘s historied corner bar with Landscape Architect Victoria Taylor to discover what’s in store at her Grow Op 2014 project, running from the 24th to the 27th of April. Toronto Foodsters will certainly want to check out the Equinosh (A Tale...

Toronto-based Author Jennifer McLagan‘s books Fat, Bones, Odd Bits, and Cooking On The Bone have been perennial favourites of Good Food Revolution for many a year. In anticipation of her upcoming book Bitter: The World’s Most Dangerous Flavour with Recipes, we sat down with the...

I have always had a secret soft spot for the oft maligned sub-genre of the Spaghetti Western, most probably because as I child I spent a great deal of time at my grandparent’s home, where my Grandad had a real penchant for such entertainment. And so it was with great nostalgic pleasure I...

I got to know the Australian-based, New Zealand-native chef Ben Shewry a little bit when he came to Toronto a few years ago for the Terroir Symposium. Over lunch we talked about how big deal tasting menus, at big deal restaurants  can be a bit much, or confusing – in other words, not...

In the Spring of 2011 Good Food Revolution embarked upon a project that would take almost three years to see the light of day. After filming well over 1,000 test subjects being pressured/coerced into placing a PTC strip upon their trepidatious tongues, this project was unceremoniously shelved...

This week we sit down with Krystina Roman of Rosewood Estates at Toronto’s Dock Ellis sports bar to talk about how one goes about tasting honey. After a brief honey tasting 101, Chef Trish Gill then shows us a couple of dishes on her menu that incorporate Rosewood’s...

Despite being referred to by Saki, Evelyn Waugh, Quentin Tarantino, Poppy Z. Brite, ZZ Top, Morphine, Tom Waits, and Ted Conover, Chartreuse is for many still very much an unknown entity. For so long the historied Carthusian liqueur, the one that in 1884 gave its name to the colour of the same...

Having previously espoused the pleasures of the Sangiovese wines of Romagna upon a couple of occasions in the pages of Good Food Revolution (first with the sage wisdom of Giorgio Melandri and then with Zerbina’s Christina Geminiani), in an effort to convince you that they really are...

For a decade and a half, Chris Knight produced food-based television shows for big television networks. “Food is my passion, television is my business,” he explains. In December, Knight launched Gusto TV, a new Canadian food TV network dedicated to “food, wine, cooking,...

Some three years ago I had the pleasure of spending just under a month in Australia courtesy of Wine Australia. Over this time in interviewed and posted interviews with innumerable Winemakers, but towards the tail end of my trip my computer began to have a little trouble and so many of the...