By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up www.globalgourmets.ca michael@globalgourmets.ca Roasted Tomato and Red Pepper Soup Tomatoes….yes it’s finally that time of year when we can thankfully bypass all those artificially grown, hard and tasteless varieties that have graced our stores for so many months and replace them with some of the natural, sweet and delicious varieties […]
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Maddie’s Rocks Saturday Night Live Beach Boy’s Style
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” if on every given Saturday night, we could drive to a local club, have a great afternoon on a terrasse in the sun, mere feet away from classic cars reminding us of yester-years, have a grand meal, a drink or two, and then bear witness to not just a tribute to Franki […]
Chef Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up Tv www.globalgourmets.ca michael@globalgourmets.ca Tom Yum Goong This soup is by far one of my all time favourites gleaned from my visits to South East Asia. Although it can be found throughout South East Asia and even Japan, it is most associated with Thailand where it is practically a […]
How a Blue Man Learned to Play the Whites
For Curtains up by Mitchell Field This story span several years so I hope you have the time. One rainy late afternoon I was at home sitting on the couch. It as the early 1970‘s and I was just starting my career as a professional musician. At 17 years old […]
Chef Michel’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up www.globalgourmets.ca michael@globalgourmets.ca Macaroni and Cheese (Mac N’ Cheese) It is one of my (and everyone’s I’m sure) all time favourite comfort foods. According to Wikipedia, our on line encyclopaedia of knowledge, details of the lineage of this dish go all the way back to the 14th century, with the […]
Fantasia Festival – The History of the Devil – preview
by Samantha Wexler for Curtains Up Written by Clive Barker Directed by Jeremy Michael Segal Performed by Title 66 Productions The History of the Devil is a satiric tale about the Devil’s trial at the end of the human race. The Devil shared the world with humanity for many millennia. If the Devil can prove […]
Greasy Spoon Restaurant
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up www.globalgourmnets.ca michael @globalgourmets.ca Greasy Spoon…the word alone conjures up images of artery clogging indulgencies that would send any doctor into an apoplectic fit and me running to down copious amounts of Crestor. The Greasy Spoon on culinary chic Laurier Ave thankfully bears no resemblance to this ugly scenario. Laurier […]
Shirley Jones: A Memoir by Shirley Jones with Wendy Leigh (Gallery Books, $29.99)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! Here’s a story for you: Shy, pretty small-town girl enters beauty contest as a lark and to her surprise wins. That leads to an audition for a part in the chorus of a Broadway show where she is discovered […]
Curtains Up on R.I.P.D
by Joseph Rossi First it was The Hangover 3, then After Earth and soon after, The Lone Ranger. Now, we have this…
Off The Beaten Path……
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up Packaged vacations to far off distant lands….we’ve all taken advantage of them at one time or another. We sign up for an advertised tour guaranteed to show us all the wonders and hidden secrets of one country or another and while doing all these wonderful things you will be […]