that canadian girl

When I received an email from the Domestic Goddess, asking me to join her Canada Day blogging event, I could think of one dessert in particular that deserved mention. The pouding chômeur, or poor man’s pudding, simply put, is a sponge cake with a thick caramelized maple sauce that drips through the cake during cooking [...]

Following the publication of the book French Women Don’t Get Fat, Clotilde from Chocolate & Zucchini got involved in a discussion with 3 other French women. Her post about it is here along with the follow-up comments, while the transcript of the discussion on the subject is here. What came out of the discussion was [...]

Following Jamie’s School Dinners tv series, the British government is finally reacting to the needs for better food in school cafeterias. Chef Jamie Oliver has welcomed the government’s extra £280m to tackle the school meals “crisis” in England. At least 50p will be spent on each primary school lunch and 60p in secondaries. Some primaries [...]

With the back-and-forth pull between the attraction to junk food some people have and the opposite movement to be healthy and free of toxins, a new name has been given to the more common than ever obsession with healthy eating. Dr Steven Bratman has named it orthorexia nervosa: literally, “fixation on righteous eating.” I mean [...]

Cross-posting from my other blog: Salmon & Prawns brochettes and Veggie Kebabs for the BBQ. MmmMmmMmm

Jamie’s School Dinners shows the junk food culture in schools and the unbelievable lack of education kids have towards food and health. Most of them didn’t manage to recognize rhubarb, a leek or an asparagus. They ate Turkey Twizzlers and stayed away from anything that wasn’t processed, with added fat and/or full of sugar. Dear [...]

I decide to start myself another blog dedicated to food and drinks! This way, I won’t be drowning this blog in food comments, though I’m sure I’ll cross-post between both blogs when I find something irresistible! It’s like one big recipe box for those nights where choosing what to cook feels like a chore. It’s [...]

We left Friday night and made it down to Brighton in record time, considering everyone expected the snow to cause traveling to grind to a halt. It was a nice chilled out evening in with Lisa, Stu and the cats… oh and the bottles of wine, boys? Saturday, we lazed all morning, enjoying Stu’s fantastic [...]

Not terribly useful for me, but here is a list of restaurants where you can eat under $10 in New York. It’s been making me hungry, reading through the descriptions of all 100 mostly family-run restaurants/joints… Now if only someone could do this for London. Found through Paul.

This snippet of interesting information was found through Treehugger‘s blog. Prêt à Manger is a popular chain in big cities like Manhattan, Hong Kong and London. I only recently found out that their tasty food is also grown according to higher standards than I would usually expect from a fast foody place. It’s fast food [...]