Every Saturday morning, you can count on spotting Ted Hutten somewhere near his table in the well-worn corridor of the Historic Farmers’ Market. Tall and wiry, you’ll see him setting out the soft green pints full of wrinkly yellow zucchini blossoms or baskets piled with blushing apples that line his table. Or maybe he’ll be […]
Melissa Buote
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Go for the Gold
Gone are the days when serving something on a silver platter was the best you could ask for, on Thursday, October 17, Halifax is getting Gold Medal Plates. A fundraiser for athletes and a fine dining culinary competition that unites the competitive spirit of the Olympics with the culinary skill of some of Canada’s best […]
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The right stuff
“To me, the quintessential Thanksgiving turkey stuffing is the one my mom makes,” says Dan Vorstermans, “obviously.” Pretty much everybody’s favourite stuffing is the one their mom makes, but Vorstermans—chef owner at the local-focused Field Guide, which will be opening in a few weeks—and a few other chefs in town have some other suggestions for […]
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Reserve and protect
An overstuffed calendar is never a terrible thing, but for food events in town, it can result in under-attended events. Over the next few months, you can gorge yourself on events. The Fall Wine Festival and last weekend’s Port of Wines Festival lead into this coming weekend’s Food Truck Rally, City Harvest, Devour: The Food […]
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Filling time
A peek behind the curtain of The Coast’s food section would show you a to-do list of restaurants to review that sprawls into the dozens at any given time. How I choose what restaurant to review is as much schedule as it is spontaneity; there is very little rhyme to it, but there is generally […]
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Nite moves
“Wouldn’t it be great to do a dinner here after hours?” When Renée Lavallée posed that simple question to Tara MacDonald and Zane Kelsall, owners of Two If By Sea Cafe three years ago, little did she know the path she was setting out for herself: a path with a lot of stops, but one […]
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Terry Vassallo’s awesome sauce
“That’s Amore” is playing in the dining room at Cafe Chianti as I sit in the dining room, perusing the menu of classic Italian and Italian-American dishes— beef carpaccio, cioppino, handmade potato gnocchi, linguine vongole, insalata Caprese, and various pizzas. It’s fitting—Cafe Chianti is a classic. “It is a little bit, maybe right off the bat, […]
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Stock it to ya
THE BASICS “When I was a student, I figured out how to survive on an $11 per week grocery bill. Every night it was Minute Rice cooked up in the microwave with frozen corn, salsa and no-name cheese melted on top,” says Jenna Durling. It’s a far cry from the healthy, seasonal comfort food Durling […]
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The answer’s Canadian Bacon
The sun is starting a slow decline as some storm clouds clear and a bit of evening warmth creeps into the air on the last few streams of sunlight. I’m meeting Allison on the Halifax waterfront for a quick dinner at Canadian Bacon Cookhouse, one of the new crop of snack shacks that popped up […]
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Lauren Marshall
Lauren Marshall can remember the exact moment she knew she wanted to be a chef. “I remember one Christmas when I was very small, my grandfather lit a plum pudding on fire,” she says. “He let me blow it out. That was the day I wanted to grow up and do what he did: Grandad […]
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Virgil Muir
“I’m a self-taught cook,” says Virgil Muir, who handles chef duties at The Food Wolf with Eric Gunnells. “I’m musician and am trained as a massage therapist; I use my senses to do everything I do. The food that I cook is made with particular attention to how it tastes, smells, looks and feels.” Muir grew […]
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Andrew Farrell
Andrew Farrell wears a uniform. It starts with a folded bandana wrapped around his forehead, replacing the stodgy pleats of a traditional chef’s toque. He wears a black chef’s coat over a pair of faded black jeans. A Moleskine notebook is tucked into a back pocket. And he almost always has a mug of coffee […]
