Category: Eat Your Face Off

Kinnon Draws Her Food

One of my bestest pals, design partner, birthday sharer (this Friday, April 15, holla!) and illustrator extraordinaire Kinnon took a trip to Portugal and Spain a couple months ago (she often travels solo, which is gutsy and cool).  As a way to honor the trip, and remember what she ate, Kinnon has illustrated the most memorable meals from her journey.  What a great idea for a travel diary, no?

You can see all of Kinnon’s travel food illustrations, and read the stories that accompany the drawings, online here.  Warning – do not read when you’re hungry.  Or you just might find yourself searching for flights to Spain.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Gourmet Cookie Book

Yesterday Ian and I were watching CBS Sunday Morning (yep, we watch Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes every week – we’re quite the old married couple), and we saw this story on Gourmet Magazine’s new Cookie Book.  The editors of Gourmet have gone through their archives and selected one cookie recipe per year from 1941-2009.  Of course, the book is great for bakers looking to expand their repertoire, but it also offers an interesting look at social history, as it features “headnotes describing their cultural context, the recipes present a fascinating bite-by-bite history of how our appetites evolved.”

The Gourmet Cookie Book would be a great last-minute gift idea for the baker or cookie historian in your life…

Off to Vegas…

This morning I’m jumping on a plane with 5 of my favourite ladies, and we’re headed to Vegas for 3 nights to celebrate Hilary’s birthday.  I’m not much of a gambler, and I won’t be partying much (being pregnant has me in bed by 10pm most nights), but I am looking forward to hanging out with my friends, a little shopping, and eating our faces off.

We have reservations tomorrow night at Bouchon Bistro, and I haven’t looked forward to a meal this much in a long time.  Bouchon is a Thomas Keller restaurant (you know, Thomas Keller of The French Laundry?  Arguably the best chef in America, if not the world?), and although I’m sure Keller himself will NOT be in the kitchen tomorrow night, it will still be a meal to remember.

Just look at those steak frites…

Fresh Seafood on the Isle of Skye

Hold me back, or I’ll buy a plane ticket… the New York Times recently published an article in their travel section about fresh seafood and other fine dining on the Isle of Skye, in Scotland.  The idea of Scottish fine cuisine used to be an oxy-moron, but now there’s a Michelin star resto on Skye.  I wish I was there, slurping back fresh oysters, looking out at the dramatic hills and coastline…

Boxsall Picnic Kits

My regular readers know how much I like picnics (I’ve posted about it here).  So you won’t be surprised when you see how much I love the picnic kits from Boxsall (especially the “urban picnic” box that looks like an old-school ghetto blaster).  These have been featured on more design blogs than I can count – they’re very popular.  I don’t think you can get them in Canada though.

Eat My Words Treat Boxes

Last week, I helped my friends Vic and Malia set up a website.  Their electric scooter was stolen, and they wanted a website to post videos, photos, and comments (all in an attempt to get some media coverage for their plight.  Crazy – it worked!)

I didn’t expect anything in return – Vic and Malia are great people, and I wanted to help them out.  But, being the awesome people they are, they sent me a gift basket from Eat My Words, featuring 12 beautiful mini-cupcakes in a gorgeous hat box.  (And they were dropped off by a really cute delivery boy – extra bonus)

And the best part of all of it – the proceeds from each and every Eat My Words treat box go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation.  So I can feel less guilty about eating 12 cupcakes at once (just kidding… kind of).

Now if only Vic and Malia can get their scooter back – then all will be right in the world.

Custom-made Chocolate Bars

From the Toronto Life “Dish” blog – German chocolate company Chocri is shipping made-to-order chocolate bars to Canada.  Personally, I like the sound of the “Treasure Chest” – milk chocolate, caramel chocolate drops, sprinkles, toffee, and mini cookies.  All together in a glorious ( and rather expensive at $10 each) chocolate bar.  Yes please.