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A Food Year
http://www.afoodyear.com
A Food Year documents my attempt to eat something different for dinner every day of 2006. The site continues to grow as it is updated daily. You can read about my successes, struggles and failures that occur while trying out new recipes.
Recent Posts
Sister Site
All of the Montreal restaurant reviews and food writing about marketing, food chemistry and so on have been relocated to my new sister site, Bread is Pain. This might be a little tedious at first, but A Food Year was first and foremost about trying ...
La Salle a Manger
Last year I ended up celebrating my birthday noshing on a sample of Reservoir’s menu of the moment and drinking a couple pints of India pale ale. It seemed fitting that this time around, to celebrate another milestone in my own ‘maturityR...
Other Projects
When I finished the original A Food Year project, a lot of people asked me what was next. Would I do another project like it again? Did I have something else planned for the future? At the time, I had no intentions of ever repeating a daily dinner...
Microwave Cappuccinos
One of my tentative new year’s resolutions for 2010 is to learn how to make cappuccino art. You know, the fancy hearts, leaves and beautiful spirals found in in the foam of some coffee shop beverages. I’m not anticipating this to be all...
The Sparrow
The Sparrow gastro pub cracked the Montreal restaurant radar so rapidly after opening that it was hard not to take notice. At the time of its opening, The Sparrow seemed like just a bar struggling to get a liquor license that appeared to be keeping ...
Le Cendrillon Chevre
This year the winner of the gold medal at the 2009 World Cheese Awards in the Canary Islands was a Quebec chevre called Le Cendrillon. The previous year’s winner was also a goat cheese entry, one from the Canary Islands that was covered in pa...
