Volume 1, Number 11 | Toronto, Ontario| A Malcolm Jolley website | News & features from the good food revolution

NEXT WEEK: Au Revoir To All That: Michael Steinberger's account of the decline and fall of French Gastromomie.

Pilar Cabrera is Mexico's Mole Master

Photo: A. Starkman

Imagine all the women in a Mexican village working for ten days straight, using over thirty ingredients, just to make a mole sauce. Pilar Cabrera channels that tradition and love into her cooking every day. This month the Oaxacan native comes to Toronto to teach the intricacies of mole. More>>.

Zoltan's Back!

NEXT WEEK: Toronto's travelling Transylvanian sommelier Zoltan Szabo returns to his adoptive city after nearly a year of running a restaurant in Shanghai.

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Mario & Malcolm's
Dinner Party
Part 1: Planning The Menu

GFR's Malcolm Jolley asked The Healthy Butcher's Mario Fiorucci to help him cook an all local dinner for his son's public school raffle. Executive Chef John Abrahams said September is the perfect month for pasture fed meat. More>>

NEXT WEEK: Veteran Chef JP Challet defends his new restaurant ICI Bistro from Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone's bid to have his liquor license denied. Malcolm Jolley talks to both about the little restaurant at Harbord and Manning on the eve of ICI's hearing at Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.

Wine Under $15:
Not Your 90s Chard

You can taste the Prince Edward County limestone in Huff Estates 2007 Chardonnay ($14.95), one of several artisanal Ontario wines featured in the most recent LCBO Vintages release.  The low alcohol (12.8%), high acidity wine is good a example of the "mid-Atlantic" style being cultivated by modern Ontario winemakers. Lemon and grassy notes and slightly spicy lift at the end make it a great pairing for grilled chicken. Click here to find a store stocking it near you.

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In Season Now: Ontario Edamame
"Lightly steamed and salted" is how Kathleen Mackintosh likes her fresh soy beans, aka edamame, being harvested right now. "They're best if they've been picked within a few days," she explains.

Culinarium, Ontario's Locavore Store, generously sponsors GFR's weekly seasonal produce report.

LCBO Wine Under $15: Hecula Monastrell

At $13.95 Bodegas Castaño's 2006 Hecula Monastrell (LCBO# 718999) may be the best red wine deal at Vintages. Monastrell is what the Spaniards call Mourverdre and this lightly oaked and nicely aged wine displays the grapes violet and black fruit intensity without overpowering the palate. This wine from the Southeastern Spanish region of Murcia sits in the middle of New World bigness and Old World restraint and is perfect crowd pleaser and late summer barbecue wine. Click here to find it in a liquor store near you.

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Mary Beaton & Bill Bennett: 20 Years at Langdon Hall

More Good Food Revelation at our blog, GoodFoodRevBlog.

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In Season Now:
Concord Grapes

Kathleen Mackintosh is keen on Sovereign Coronation grapes: a hybrid of Concord strains developed in BC in the 1970s, and now grown and being picked in Ontario. "I just love their sweet interior and tart sour skin. They pop like little sacs of sweet jelly under the tongue! They are much much more flavourful than the traditional grocery store grapes we see all year round," she explains.

Culinarium, Ontario's Locavore Store, generously sponsors GFR's weekly seasonal produce report.

33 Things About Norm Hardie

Norman Hardie is a winery and a man. Good Food Revelation presents 33 things worth knowing about the sought after winemaker and his Prince Edward County operation. More>>

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