Archive for March, 2008
March 31, 2008 at 9:12 pm · Filed under Books for Cooks
Tony Minichiello , owner/instructor at NCAV and a fellow CTS Board member has a sage blog happening at his school’s website. This is one of his latest posts, entitled Time to Change the “Reality” Spiel:
The “reality” of becoming a professional cook is the same old story no different than “when I was your age, I had to walk 3 miles to school, in the snow, uphill both ways.” I hear it all the time, it’s well documented in culinary “reality” biographies and TV, pontificated by chefs and instructors alike.
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March 31, 2008 at 7:38 pm · Filed under UrbanDiner.ca Site News
We’ve added a tip box to the site, just below the EAT banner in the second column over. It isn’t for gratuities (now that’s an idea!), but for you to share whatever news you might have about new openings and closings, personnel changes, interesting links, even the colour of David Sidoo’s gonch.
Go ahead and give it a whirl.
March 31, 2008 at 1:15 pm · Filed under Food Media & Reviews, Restaurant News
Earth Hour at Yew Restaurant in the Four Seasons saw 200 guests dining by the light of a thousand candles. When the hour was up the customers wanted to keep the lights off (Province).
Great read on service by Meeru Dhalwala of Vij’s in the Sun last Tuesday.
My first table was six very happy men who all seemed to be good friends. They ordered six mutton kebobs, three lamb popsicles, and three beef shortribs. I was so shocked by their order that I must have just stood there for a minute figuring out what to say.
“Is there a problem?” one of them asked me. I told them exactly what the problem was – there was no fibre or vitamins in their dinner order and, on principle, I couldn’t place the order.
The Globe’s Fiona Morrow on Gastropod’s James Beard dinner in NY.
Mia Stainsby mentions it too in the Vancouver Sun. (I’ll report back on the dinner after their re-enactment dinner in two weeks)
Tim Pawsey reviews O’Doul’s in Friday’s Courier.
March 30, 2008 at 12:34 pm · Filed under Videos
It’s deadline day for the WE and so, as per usual, I’m writing to just one song over and over again. The Figurines are a Danish band I’d never heard of until recently, and as you can hear they can carry a haunting tune. Not sure about the video, though. All sorts of symbolism there: life, death, growing up, grief – no wonder Hamlet was such a brooder.
March 29, 2008 at 6:20 pm · Filed under Polls
Today’s National Post has a story on the high end hospitality market (hotels and restaurants) and how it’s attracting more and more luxury brands and driving up the cost of real estate. Nothing new or exciting (depressing, really), but this para caught my eye:
Recently, TV’s Gordon Ramsay was spotted around town looking for a location.
As far as I know, that was just a rumour, the punctuation of an industry gossip game of telephone. Last week in a Globe story similar to the one published in the Post today, Fiona Morrow caught the same sniffle:
Notorious British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is said to have been in the city in the past week.
Has anyone actually served or seen him, or is this total bullshit? Feel free to comment away under the poll…
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