The 2014 edition of the Delicious Food Show is only a week away! This delicious, food-related event will feature, as usual, celebrity chefs, how-to workshops and, of course, exhibitors from food/food related brands (and restaurants, too) both large and small – you might even discover a new one as I did last year with Gaga […]
Well, at least they weren’t all used in the same round. Chicken skin was up first, along with green beans, prunes and sweet apple cider. I probably would have stuffed the chicken skin with prunes, quinoa and tomatoes, serving it with a bean salad and an apple cider dressing, but that would probably have taken […]
I have no words. “Strawberry parfait” (it looked more like a gelatin parfait packaged in a mold, but it was hard to tell. Anyway, it looked gross) was one of the mandatory ingredients in the competition. However, it wasn’t for the first round. In Round One, the chefs had to create a dish using ostrich, […]
This time, the gross ingredients mostly came in the first round, with candied fruit rolls and yellow mustard in the same basket. Nothing against yellow mustard, but it’s just not as good as the grainier kind. Anyway, the contestants, two from Toronto and another two from Calgary, set out to create a starter using those […]
Not only was there a lot of junk in the mystery boxes, but last night’s show also featured one of the most “mature” candidates yet. Chef Philip was in his early 60s! Not that age really matters, of course. But it was interesting to see the difference in dishes he made and the other candidates, […]
Recently, I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Montreal-based chef and Chopped Canada judge, Chuck Hughes (also of Chuck’s Day Off). He was in Toronto to speak at an event at the Art Gallery of Ontario about Mexican travel (which he says he goes yearly) and Mexican food (for The Taste of Mexico). With […]
