Paper Palate

Another magazine packed full of Spring celebration – which sadly hasn’t eventuated in London yet. Still, flicking through April’s delicious makes me a little less glum in the midst of this seemingly never-ending winter.
Easter lamb with grilled vegetables is on the table at top chef Angela Hartnett’s home, as she shares her Italian family’s […]

Pureed Soups – Just Follow the Formula
Pureed soups have a hearty, rich flavor without relying on cream or butter to plump them up – their thickness comes from the main ingredient, the vegetables themselves, and sometimes a starch thickener such as rice.
This week’s Chronicle features recipes for seven pureed soups: Sweet Pea & Green Garlic […]

Spring starts with a very fresh Easter this April edition – Camembert and Champagne Soup, Spinach & Smoked Salmon Roulade, Baked Ham in a Bourbon Glaze – the list goes on of indulgent recipes to recover from the rigors of Lent. Anthony Worrall Thompson also creates several delicious seasonal dishes for a traditional Easter or […]

Every time I take a trip to my local magazine vendor, I am always amazed at the number of publications devoted to food and wine. It seems like every month there’s an addition to the food magazine family. Not that I am complaining mind you. Being a foodie, and a foodie that loves her magazines, […]

We all know that we have five senses: taste, touch, feel, sight and sound. But scientists and cookbook authors are finally coming to see what the food nation might have known all along, but just couldn’t name: there are five tastes; making the tongue just as sensitive as our bodies (if not more so).
Research […]

The tiffinwalla system of Mubmai (and many other cities in India) has fascinated me ever since a couple friends of mine worked there for a few weeks. They didn’t get a daily tiffin (a light lunch, Indian style) like rest of the office since they had no one at home to cook for them, […]

A serious food magazine habit combined with a love of baking and cooking led me to the Paper Palate. I live in Toronto and by day I work as a writer and copyeditor. By night I am food blogger that dreams of what to bake and cook next for my own little blog Cream Puffs […]

Heard of window shopping? Half the pleasure, with no strain on your wallet. Window cooking is a lot like that … half the pleasure with no strain on your waistline.

I had surgery two weeks ago and spent the first week home, doing the bed rest thing and spending a lot of time catching […]

I am not Irish.
I never claim to be Irish or wear a “Kiss me I’m Irish” pin on Saint Patrick’s Day. My mother occasionally dyed things green: toast, eggs, mashed potatoes, and Chicago, where I grew up, still dyes the River green for the occasion. Once, in junior high school, for a bake sale […]

The Washington Post reported yesterday that a study done by the Union of Concerned Scientists has found that the composition of meat and milk of pasture-fed cows to be quite different from cows that are kept in feedlots or barns and fed corn.
The study is the first to synthesize the information gleaned from most […]