My Local Food Hero’s: local food purveyers around Canada
This summer I had the unexpected pleasure of finding like-minded locavores (meaning other crazy nuts like me) in provinces around Canada. Through a series of coincidences I found myself traveling to Isle de la Madelaine (a little string of islands belonging to Quebec, in the mouth of the St Lawrence just east of PEI) for [...]
Culinarium Crew “gifts” Crazy
A few weeks ago the Culinarium crew was busy pulling together the project of a lifetime. You may have noticed the chaos in the shop and the glazed over, bedazzled look in our eyes! Back in July, four days before I departed on my summer vacation we secured our first, big, corporate gift basket contract. [...]
Egg Substitutions
Our Egg Drought may have ended but the girls are still only laying small eggs, so while we’ve been enjoying farm fresh free-range eggs for the last few weeks fried, scrambled or in omelets we figured we better learn how to substitute them in recipes as well. So we’ve done a little digging and found [...]
Lard
Lard is rendered pig fat that has many uses. It has always been a important source of fat in countries that eat pork. Up until recently, lard was regarded as highly as butter. And during WWII, it was widely used as a substitute for butter. As food trends come and go, lard is also having [...]