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  • Contest Alert: Meet Guy Fieri in New York

    How would you like to hang out with Food Network host Guy Fieri in the Big Apple ? Food Network Canada and Chatelaine magazine want to send two lucky winners to New York on an all-expenses paid trip to meet the host of not one but four popular shows on Food Network: Guy’s Big Bite , Diners, Drive-ins and Dives , Ultimate Recipe Showdown and Guy off the Hook (which hasn't made it across the border yet). The grand prize includes: 2 round-trip airfare to New York (courtesy of Air Canada Vacations) 4 nights accommodation (courtesy of Air Canada) Meal vouchers Meet and greet with Guy Fieri Tour of Food Network's Chelsea Market studio Autographed copies of Guy’s book Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: An All American Road Trip… with Recipes. All you have to do is fill out this contest form over at Chatelaine.com . It’s as easy as pie. There are lots of other great prizes. What are you waiting for? Go enter now! Related: INTERVIEW: Guy Fieri Talks About Ultimate Recipe Challenge

  • Win a Trip to PEI’s Fall Flavours Fest with Host Michael Smith!

    That’s right! You heard it right: thanks to Tourism Charlottetown , we’re offering you the biggest giveaway we’ve ever had on this blog – a trip! I’m surprised the blog can even handle a gift of this magnitude. The details are below, but in a nutshell, you get a two-night round trip to Charlottetown, PEI, to attend events at the Fall Flavours Food Festival , hosted by Chef Michael Smith , and you get to bring a friend! I’m sorry, but this is HUGE. I want it! (Don’t worry, I’m barred from the contest.) The two events included in your package are; Family Style Cookbook signing featuring Chef Michael Smith on September 25, 2009; and the Handcrafted Ales & Wine Festival on September 26, 2009, both taking place in Charlottetown, PEI. For those who are not familiar, Fall Flavours is a uniquely PEI event taking place in Charlottetown and across the rest of the Island, September 25th through to October 4, 2009. In its second year, the festival is a showcase of Island cuisine and agri-culinary experiences before a backdrop of fall colours, harvest vistas and fields of sunflowers. Approximately 15,000 culinary thrill seekers are expected to come and taste food from the source this year. As the quasi-official PEI culinary ambassador , Chef, author, television personality and proud father, Michael Smith , is happy to host this all-encompassing festival, and offers this to entice you all to experience it; "Prince Edward Island is a giant farm, surrounded by sandy beaches, floating in the ocean. It's the sort of place that never lost its local food connection, it's the perfect place to visit and be inspired by our incredible food culture and Fall Flavours is the perfect time to come. There's something for everyone during this foodie festival!" The Prize There is one (1) grand prize available to be won consisting of: a trip for two (2) to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island which shall include two round-trips economy airfare for the Winner and his/her guest, departing on September 25, 2009 and returning on September 27, 2009. two (2) nights hotel accommodation two (2) tickets to Family Style Cookbook signing featuring Chef Michael Smith on September 25, 2009 in Charlottetown, PEI two (2) tickets to the Handcrafted Ales & Wine Festival on September 26, 2009 in Charlottetown, PEI How to Enter Enter online by completing and submit the entry form located on our here (this form is our contact form. Please use it to submit your entry). No entries will...

  • Home Hardware Partners with Anna Olson

    One of the kitchen’s loveliest patrons, Anna Olson , has partnered with Home Hardware to help spread the word about their kitchen-related wares. In our conversation on the subject (see below), Anna revealed that she was happy to take the opportunity because Home Hardware is a Canadian operation and a great resource for anyone seeking to embark on a kitchen reno. Well it’s turned out to be a great resource all right! We managed to get our hands on a Delfino Pro Stand Mixer and a couple of fetching bamboo cutting boards to give away! See details below my interview with Anna. Anna Olson on Kitchen Renos Elana Safronsky: I know you’re passionate about cooking in a kitchen but are you passionate about renovating a kitchen? Anna Olson: I am passionate about kitchens period. Everyone has their toys and mine are all manner of kitchen utensils, from the smallest thing all the way up to full scale appliances and cupboards. I like everything that comes with kitchens. E.S.: Seeing as you’ve gone through a kitchen reno, what would be your personal advice for those looking to embark on their own kitchen renos? A.O.: Look at your habits before you start. How do you use your kitchen? What do you reach for most often, and what is never there when you need it? ou don’t want to follow someone else's plan, because everyone cooks differently. Not to say that you shouldn’t get advice, but look at the way you cook. Look at how you store food, and how you reach for food. Will there be two of you cooking in the kitchen? That was the big thing with my husband and I – the two of us are in there at the same, time all the time, so we factored that in. Build it to suit yourself. E.S.: Could a Home Hardware satisfy all your home kitchen needs? Even as a chef? A.O.: Yes! I was attracted to Home Hardware because they’re a Canadian owned operation and they’re very accessible. It’s not just a place to shop for your products, you can go there simply for advice, and you’ll get it. And if you’re a real foodie, they’ve got it all. E.S.: Should we buy our appliances for life? A.O.: I don’t think these days people buy their appliances for life. There are so many built-ins and pieces that are home-specific that I don’t think it’s possible to buy kitchen appliances for life. And your needs change. Look at a family and how it grows; you start off cooking for one or two, and then you add young children, so your needs change, and then your kids grow up and your needs change again, so the appliances...

  • Mark Bittman Gives Me a Talking-To About “Healthy” Eating

    A little while back we blogged about New York Times food columnist and author Mark Bittman ’s new book Food Matters ( read our review ). I interviewed Mark about his new book, and got a good talking-to about many healthy eating misconceptions – such as, eating organic is not synonymous with eating healthy – about which he was VERY passionate. (See GIVEAWAY below!) Mark is a well-known cooking advocate who’s reigning message is to keep it real, simple (not for nothing, his column is called "The Minimalist"). Photo: Silvain Gaboury, PR Photos, EXPOSAY.com A while back he was experiencing health problems which he resolved to tackle through changing his diet. He ate more plants and less animal products, and it worked, so he wrote a book about it. In his signature BS-free manner, Mark ardently unpacked for me the question his new book attempts to answer: Elana Safronsky: What’s wrong with what we eat? Mark Bittman: It can basically be boiled down to this: the proportions of what we eat are completely out of whack. It’s not about farm-fresh eggs or locally-grown broccoli or grass-fed beef or organic anything. It’s about the fact that on one side of the equation we have an enormous amount of animal products, processed food, and junk food, and on the other side of the equation we have plants – vegetables, fruit, legumes, nuts, whole grains. In North America we eat way too much food that’s on the left side of that equation compared to the right side, where in fact it should be turned on its head. At least a third of the calories the average American takes in are completely useless – soft drinks, bagels, etc. The remaining 65 or so percent of the arguably healthy food that we eat is largely made up of meat and dairy products. These are foods we generally consider beneficial, but in fact, we consume so much of them, that they become dangerous. What’s left – the foods that are actually healthiest, ranging from benign to the beneficial – are simply grown and cooked plants, which get squeezed out by our addiction to useless processed foods and animal products. The way we eat makes us fat, it makes us sick and it damages the environment. And it’s not really nice to animals either. E.S.: What you’re saying is somewhat counter to what trend watchers would have us believe, which is that society is moving toward this healthy lifestyle of organic eating and living – do you mean that organic/locally grown/ sustainable is not synonymous with healthy eating? M.B.: Thank...

  • GrEATing Cards from Greta and Janet Podleski

    Those punny sisters! The Podleski gals -- Greta and Janet -- who are behind the soon-to-be empire of Eat, Shrink and Be Merry , have come up with a brilliant way to keep on spreading their healthy eating message: greeting cards . They’ve launched a roster of 50 cards across the country at 1000 Hallmark stores, with a food pun on the cover, and a recipe inside. Except – you guessed it – they’re spelled grEATing cards, and they’re super cute! (See Giveaway below!) "Heard you weren't feeling well.." Inside : "Get batter soon." Recipe : Simply Scrumptious Blueberry and Banana Pancakes. "You two make quite a pair." Inside: "May your life together be fruitful." Recipe: Butternut Squash Soup with Pears and Ginger. It’s totally one of those ideas that makes you wonder why no one’s thought of it before. I spoke to Janet – the nutritionist – Podleski on the phone earlier this week, to find out how exactly this brilliant little venture happen to hatch. Elana Safronsky: How did you come up with the idea? Janet Podleski: Actually, Greta came up with the idea back in April or March. She had a dream in the middle of the night, clear as a bell, that we came out with a line of greeting cards, except it wasn’t spelled the normal way, but g-r-E-A-T-ing cards… E.S.: So you guys dream in puns too? G.P.: Yes! Greta got up – she had a pad of paper beside her bed – and she doodled and scribbled away. She didn’t even know how long she stayed up but when she woke up in the morning she had the complete concept, the recipes the sentiments, the cartoons –everything, for 14 cards. So she brought them in, showed them to me and to everybody and we just said that this is crazy, it’s such a good idea, this is just such a perfect extension of our brand. With the cartoons, it’s funny and cute, and allows us to spread our message of healthy eating… Another way to get our healthy recipes out there. So we decided to mock up a whole bunch of cards for real. We got our cartoonist to draw several of them and when we were ready we sent them off to Hallmark – we thought let’s just go right to the top. Shortly thereafter the VP of marketing called us and he said the president wants to see you…It was literally one of those, I have a dream things… They had a big boardroom meeting and Greta did her big presentation and the president of Hallmark was there, but he didn’t say much during the presentation. Finally, at the end Greta said to him, you haven’t really said...
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