Food For Thought – Tribute to James Barber

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Don Genova

Img_0758Canadian culinary icon James Barber passed away last week at age 84.  This week on Food For Thought I pay tribute to him.  You’ll hear clips from his TV and a very old appearance on the CBC Radio show Morningside, as hosted by Don Harron.  Click here to listen to the audio file.  To see some photos on my Facebook photo album tribute to James (and you don’t have to have a Facebook account) just click here.

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James Barber Passes On

Posted on December 2, 2007 by Don Genova

Photo_aboutSad news came to me on Saturday…a man that I looked up to for many years has passed away.  James Barber, known to many Canadians and people around the world as the Urban Peasant, died suddenly at age 84 in his home in the Cowichan Valley on Thursday, November 29th.

Dsc_1514 My condolences to his family.  I am planning a tribute to James on my next All You Can Eat podcast.  Check my website or blog for more details in the coming days.  You can read a CBC News story about James here.  I appeared on The Early Edition on CBC Vancouver this morning to talk about James, you can listen to my chat with Rick Cluff, and I’ve posted a Facebook photo album of some shots I have of James at various events.  You can view it here, even if you don’t have a Facebook account.

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All You Can Eat Vol. 44 – One Pot Italian Cooking

Posted on November 30, 2007 by Don Genova

Img_6289This week on All You Can Eat I welcome Massimo Capra into my ‘Test Kitchen’.  Massimo is the author of One Pot Italian Cooking, and the owner of two Toronto Italian restaurants, Mistura and Sopra. 

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You can order the book by clicking here to follow through to amazon.ca and save 37% off the cover price! 

In the kitchen, Massimo guided me through his braised rabbit with apricots and tomatoes; earlier I made some tasty back ribs cooked with julienned cabbage.

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Food For Thought -BC Albacore Tuna

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Don Genova

Img_6309This week on Food For Thought I let a good idea out of the can…BC Albacore tuna.  That’s a frozen tuna in the photo on the right, they are about 10 to 20 pounds when they are caught off the British Columbia coast, long before their bodies have a chance to build up any dangerous concentrations of mercury.

Img_6304 The tuna is available as a high quality canned product, cooked in its own juices with absolutely no waste.  It is also available in frozen, boneless, skinless loins, which I love to eat raw as sashimi or sear lightly with Asian seasonings.  This photo shows some of the chefs who gathered to demonstrate recipes at Albion Fisheries in Vancouver, with the loins at the bottom of the photo.  To listen to my mp3 documentary on albacore tuna, click here.

Img_6310 Img_6312 Here are a couple of the dishes they made.  You can find lots of recipes for using both raw and canned tuna at the Canadian Albacore Tuna website.  You will also find details of a recipe contest now underway that anyone can enter, with CASH prizes.  Contest deadline is December 15th, 2007.

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Food For Thought – One Pot Italian Cooking

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Don Genova

Img_6289This week on Food For Thought I welcomed Massimo Capra into my ‘Test Kitchen’.  Massimo is the author of One Pot Italian Cooking, and the owner of two Toronto Italian restaurants, Mistura and Sopra.  To listen to my chat with him, click here for the mp3.

One_pot

You can order the book by clicking here to follow through to amazon.ca and save 37% off the cover price! 

In the kitchen, Massimo guided me through his braised rabbit with apricots and tomatoes; earlier I made some tasty back ribs cooked with julienned cabbage.  More photos coming soon!

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Parma Palate – I Graduated!

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Don Genova

Don_grad I Graduated!
Earlier this month I received my Masters of Food Culture, Communicating Quality Products from the University of Gastronomic Sciences near Parma, Italy. To see photos from my grad week in Italy visit my Facebook photo albums here and here.

What’s Next?
My Food For Thought show on CBC Radio is continuing, as is my All You Can Eat podcast.  In January I will be teaching an introductory course in Food Culture at the University of Victoria. As soon as details are confirmed I’ll post them here, but you can expect lectures in my favourite food products such as cheese, olive oil and cured meats, with lots of tasting! 

I’m amazed at how quickly the year passed by.  It was a fascinating course in an intriguing country.  No, I don’t speak that much Italian now, but I can certainly make my way around, in that I can mostly understand the answers when I ask for directions!  To review the postings I made from Italy, and the places our class visited outside the country, follow this Parma Palate category link on this blog.

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