By Chef Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up Welcome to the first of my weekly quick and easy and above all delicious recipes for your weekend enjoyment. My first recipe is a definite favorite of mine. I managed to glean it from a wonderful Vietnamese lady who I met on my last visit to Hoi An, […]
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Furtive Feasts and Ghetto Gourmets!
By Chef Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up They are the modern day incarnations and throwbacks to the frolic, mayhem and freewheeling days of prohibition and the subterranean closed door speakeasies that flourished throughout our major metropolises in the 1920’s They are the underground restaurants, where admission, like entry to the speakeasy, is by invitiation only […]
Curtains Up on Weekend Viewing
by Joseph Rossi BIG NIGHT Does anyone remember BIG NIGHT? I was rooting through my DVD collection and came across Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott’s 1996 film. It’s about two Italian brothers who own a failing restaurant in 1950’s New Jersey and have to prepare a dinner for jazz singer Louis Prima in order to […]
DISHCRAWL stalks the Old Port for new hits and beloved classics.
By Tracey Hill for Curtains Up “Wear warm, comfortable walking shoes” messaged Dishcrawl’s effervescent coordinator, Jenny King. Not knowing what I was in for (weather and distance-wise), I donned my warmest orthopedic mukluks (on the off-chance we would attempt to re-create Sebastian Cabot’s famed expedition over the Northeast Passage). Alas, all this fretting about appropriate footwear was for naught. The four […]
GAUCHO cooking comes to Montreal for Festival en Lumière
By Tracey hill for Curtains Up There’s a certain virility to Gaucho-style cooking despite its subtly graceful result. Popularized by Argentinian cattle rustlers, fighters and farmers, ‘Gaucho’ cooking has everything to do with the method of heating food (mostly meat and potatoes) using grills, ashes, coal and wood. Elemental, raw and primitive, it utilizes basic tools […]
The Exciting Flavours of Vietnamese Coffee !
By Chef Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up Recently we have heard a lot about the effects of “globalization“ in all aspects of our lives and how we all are all globally intertwined as never before. Advances in communications and travel have made even the most remote areas […]
Food For Lovers – Get Down With Your Sensual Side
By Chef Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with […]
ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE
By Carolyn Fe for Curtains Up Gone are the days when ‘going out’ was an event in itself. There was a time when men and women would dress to the nine’s and steppin’ out was an elegant affair. Gentlemen wore Biltmores and bow ties while the ladies were oh-so-chic with their evening gloves and slingback […]
FROM THE WINE CASE – For Valentine’s Day and Beyond
Remy Charest From the Wine Case with Remy Charest.What would Valentine’s Day be without that wonderful elixir – vino?Remy Charest has crawled out of the comfort of his wine case and made some suggestions for Valentine’s Day. An idea for those wishing to make the day special, and the serving of the wine significant, would […]