Happily munching on Chef Anthony Rose’s suckling pig and foie gras sandwiches and drawing steadily on an ever present pint of Creemore (he adapts quickly to local custom, Bourdain), the man of the hour was the epitome of calm and cool. And friendly and funny and pretty much just like the character on his television shows and the narrative voice in his books. There are few things as pleasingly life affirming than finding out your hero is a decent guy.
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Sarah Crawford reports on a remarkable dinner organized by Michael Stadtlander, with photos by John Gundy. Stadlander and friends raised money consciousness for Pakistain flood victims.
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On the evening of July 26, Chef Michael Stadtländer swooped down to Toronto’s Drake Hotel from Grey County and hosted a fundraiser for his new ‘Eager Beaver’ scholarship. Not only did chef roast a pig, he assembled an all-star panel of judges to determine the winner of a ‘black-box-Iron-Chef-style’ chef battle between four of the city’s hottest young talents.
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A lot of young people are going to Europe to finish their apprenticeships, however in Canada there is a lot of wealth for example simply from an ingredient point of view. Also, we are now coming out of a culinary infancy and there are a lot of strong and interesting chefs doing things that they weren’t before. What you learn at a young age forms you into what you into what type of chef you will become later on.
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