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Burrata: a cheese with a good taste … of butter
Source: Radio-Canada.ca
Critic’s Notebook: Tastemakers of 2011
MONTREAL - For a good while now, we’ve ended each year in this space with “best of” lists. At a time when restaurants are too busy to be reviewed (or often closed), I have preferred to wrap things up by underlining the efforts of the sharpest chefs and their most...
Everything you want to know about the truffle
What is a truffle? A chocolate mushroom? Where can you buy it, what does it taste, how is it eaten? To find out more about this very luxury product that has always fascinated gourmets and gourmets, we asked a few questions of one of the main importers of truffles in...
La Cantine – Les importateurs Macchi
Chuck’s Day Off – The Truffle Guy
Lesley Chesterman – Burrata
Creamy, luscious, pricey and hard to come by! When it comes to rare gourmet nibblies in Montreal, Paolo Macchi is the man you want to know. Be it prosciutto di parma, truffled baby peaches, bottarga or autumn's decadent white truffles, Italian luxury foodstuffs are...
FIERA INTERNATIONALE DEL TARTUFO BIANCO D’ALBA
Last year in October Paolo and I went to visit the "The 79th International White Alba Truffle Fair". It was a dream come true and also a necessity, we had to make sure that the quality that we were paying for ( Extras ) was really what we were getting and that the...
Truffle Oil Web Recipes
It was pretty hard for me to find exciting recipes on the web using truffle oil. I am not sure why. Is it the fact that my google search skills are not that great? Or maybe the food websites and bloggers that I usually follow are not very interested in using truffle...
Truffle Oil Chef's Take
Italian cooking has for many apparent reasons always been very mainstream because of its simplicity, meaning that the ingredient are very common ones and known by most of us. It has been argued and still is by many, that when traditionally prepared in a restaurant...
