JK The Jamie Kennedy Cookbook
At 3pm on a Wednesday afternoon at Gilead, the last of the lunchtime stragglers are paying up, and...
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Tag: Ivy Knight
Squash Cook
Rob Firing loves squash so much he wrote a book about it. The Everyday Squash Cook, co-written...
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After Terroir
Saturday, April 12: Ivy Knight contacted GFR to say Chuck Hughes has a scheduling conflict and...
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The Drake’s Earth Day Gala – Photo Essay
For the fourth year in a row, the Drake Hotel played host to the Earth Day Canada fundraiser. The entire venue, from the Underground where the awards ceremony was held, to the Lounge where MC Sean Cullen held court and the Sadies rocked the house, to the Sky Yard where a barbecue station and plenty of Mill House Organic Lager had the joint rockin’.
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Buffalo Good Food Scene – A Photo Essay
Ivy Knight did something unusual for a Toronto food writer recently: she went to Buffalo. She writes about her adventures in the Summer 2011 edition of City Bites and Good Food Revolution is very pleased to publish photos from her trip taken by Toronto photographer Phillipa Croft.
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Declan O’Driscoll’s Milk War: An Interview with Ivy Knight
36 year-old Declan is also the brilliant producer of Milk War, a documentary about Michael Schmidt’s battle to be legally allowed to sell raw milk. His little documentary just won a James Beard Award.
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Photo Essay: The Stop’s Chef Challenge at Parts and Labour
On the evening of February 28, at Parts and Labour on Parkdale’s Queen Street strip, The Stop Community Food Centre launched it’s March-long Stop for Food program. Participating restaurants (click here for the full list) across Toronto will give a portion of the price of a special prix-fixe menu directly to The Stop. To make the party interesting, two teams of young chefs, each led by one of Parts and Labour’s two chefs, Matty Matheson and Matt deMille, competed in a competition.
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GE Cafe Chefs Series at The Evergreen Brick Works: Food for Thought feat. Ivy Knight & Tawfik Shehata
Last night, in a cozy and colourful kitchen at the Evergreen Brick Works, chef Tawfik Shehata and...
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Toronto’s Food Photography Awards 2010
Last Monday night the truly devilish Ivy Knight and The Drake Hotel hosted The Food Photography Awards… and they were SMASHING.
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Food and Workers of Brickworks Slowfood Picnic 2010 – A Photo Essay
Kristina Groeger trains her lens on the 2010 Slow Food Picnic at The Evergreen Brickworks, with a special focus on food workers and the dishes served. Ivy Knight provides colour commentary on the Toronto high-end restaurant world’s big afternoon party, in this exclusive photo-essay.
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Mr. Bourdain Comes To Hogtown
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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The Drake’s Holy Guacamole Smackdown – August 30
The Drake Hotel, a ‘Certified Good Food Fighter’, presents Holy Guacamole Smackdown, Monday, August 30 at 7PM. Hosted by Ivy Knight and featuring chefs from Parts and Labour, Enoteca Sociale, The Bellevue, C5, Frida and (of course) The Drake Hotel. Free, in The Lounge.
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