I Had the delight to attend the first vertical tasting of Rosewoods Semillon from 2008 to 2012, showcasing not only how wonderfully the styles of wine this varietal can produce based upon vintage variation here in Ontario, but how interestingly it can age in bottle. The cooler vintages showed...

By Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, a certified “Good Food Fighter” The popular HILLIER FISH FRY is back this year and happening on Saturday June 29th, at Hillier Hall, 18560 Loyalist Parkway (at Station Road) in, you guessed it, Hillier. Tickets are available for purchase by calling or...

From The Farm Cooking School presents Cynthia Peters’ Local Food Heroes, a series of posts on the innovative food and wine producers of Prince Edward County and the delicious things they make. Click here to see all the posts. Go with your gut. That phrase says it all, literally, when it...

By Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, a certified “Good Food Fighter” Evening (and daytime) happenings at Gilead this month: 2 Gilead WINE BARS, 1 Gilead Beer & Burger Bar, the return of Back Door Burgers, and a special evening of Nouvelle Cuisine with insights from Gerry Shikatani. As...

Lifford and Ponte Wine & Spirits along with Visa Infinite Dining Series present Canada’s Master Sommelier 2013 challenge at George’s Restaurant. Watch as John Szabo, Bruce Wallner, and Jennifer Huether (Canada’s only 3 Master Sommeliers) pair a 4 course meal from...

Don’t call it a ‘pop-up’, at least not when Chef Chris McDonald is around, which he is over the next few weeks that make up the run of his ‘culinary installation’, The King of Denmark. The King of Denmark is an experiment in two parts for McDonald and his team,...

‘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...

Steven Salm is a transplanted New Yorker who’s betting big on Toronto and has put together a crack team of foodists together to feed and water the Bay Streeters, condo dwellers and visiting 905ers who inhabit the city’s financial core. Mr. Salm thinks big. He made his name working...

The most recent of Toronto Life’s Love Your City series was a theme that was hard not to love. Art of the Cocktail at Malaparte  presented by Diego Reserve offered attendees four different cocktails with matching hors d’oeuvres, though not served in pairs. The drinks flowed freely all...

By Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, a certified “Good Food Fighter” Jamie Kennedy presents a Gilead SOMEWHERENESS Wine Bar Friday May 31st, 6 – 10 pm We’ll be featuring S O M E W H E R E N E S S wines at 3 Gilead Wine Bar events in May; the last one  (for now) takes place...

Ever wonder how and where the Terroni restaurants find their unique line-up of Italian artisanal wines? I did, and when I asked they refered me to their main importing agency, Cavinona, and more specifically its manager, Gianna Sami. Sami explains, in the video below that although Cavinona is...

Rosewood Estates have been making some pretty damn good Ontario Semillon for over half a decade now, and with the upcoming release of the 2011 and the introduction of new Winemaker Luke Orwinksi (previously their Assistant Winemaker and Vineyard Manager), Rosewood are seriously hitting their...

On a recent tasting trip to Piemonte for the superlative Nebbiolo Prima 2013 I happened to bump into the enchanting Valentina Abonna. Valentina’s family have been at the very heart of the Piemontese wine industry for many a generation, and so it was with great pleasure that I sat down...

  At it again this year, in a heated food and wine pairing competition, were Jennifer Heuther, Bruce Walner, and John Szabo (Canada’s three Master Sommeliers). This year George restaurant was the venue, with Chef Lorenzo Loseto having created some deliciously difficult challenges for the...

Josep Roca is a sommelier who, with his older brother, Joan (a chef), and his younger brother, Jordi (a pastry chef) own a restaurant called El Celler de Can Roca in the town of Girona in the autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain. If the name of the Roca’s restaurant sounds familiar...

Good Food Revolution correspondent Lindsay Groves reports from the 2013 London  International Wine Fair. In the video below, Groves interviews Serge Hochar about his family’s famed winery, Château Musar, in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. – Malcolm Jolley. Ed. Can’t see the...

If one takes the trouble to travel a little further afield than the tartan (Read: plaid) -clad tourist entrapments of much of Scotland, if one journeys to some of the more far flung seabound outcrops of my homeland (Hebridean islands excluded), one may find oneself on the stunningly beautiful...

More than 125 artisan cheeses from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island will be available for sampling and purchase at the third annual Great Canadian Cheese Festival on June 1-2 at the Picton Fairgrounds in Ontario’s Prince Edward County. Most will be represented by the cheesemakers...

Join Nick on the patio at Allen’s  June 20, 2013 from 6 -9 PM and be among the first to sample the much anticipated  2011 Closson Chase Vineyard Chardonnay VQA Prince Edward County. The staff will be happy to suggest food pairings from their exquisite menu. Reservations recommended....

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...