Regardless of whether you’re rich or poor or whether the market is up or down, everybody has got to eat. Foodie Friday is when MGL takes a break from all that money talk and focuses on the joys of food.
Next week marks the beginning of Diwali, the Indian Festival of Light. Indians don’t do anything [...]
Most people have what I call a “standardized test” food, a dish that will be ordered at any new restaurant to gauge the chef’s basic culinary skills. For me, that meal is usually a rack of lamb- it’s wonderfully simple, but open to a lot of interpretations. If a chef doesn’t have a decent rack [...]
As a (Canadian)Thanksgiving treat, I’m going to bare my soul and share a dirty, filthy secret that I’ve been carrying around for a long time. Despite coming from a family that farmed Newfoundland’s rocky, barren soil for literally hundreds of years, and despite having spent way too many summer days of my youth weeding our [...]
Let me start by saying that I know I’ll get flack for this recipe from rib purists. I know that real ribs aren’t cooked in a crock pot, or an oven, or in boiling water- they’re gently loved to perfection over low heat on a barbeque. Great BBQ ribs are a thing of lip smacking, [...]
This is one of my favourite recipes, not only because it’s delicious, but also because it looks much more fancy schmantzy than it actually is. Put out your good cloth napkins and decant a bottle of Chianti and your guests will think of you as a culinary superstar rather than as a guy who just [...]