Archive | April, 2011

Ideas in Food in Ottawa: Intro to sous vide

In his 1998 Massey Lectures, entitled The Elsewhere Community, Canadian literary critic Hugh Kenner cites Ezra Pound as once having told him, “You have an ob-li-ga-tion to visit the great men of your own time.” I’ve tried to incorporate this thinking into my own way of living, so when I learned that Alex Talbot of [...]

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Ideas in Food at Atelier

In general, I don’t do a lot of restaurant reviews on my site; it isn’t what I intended Kayahara.ca to be about. But I’m going to make an exception in this case, because I’ve wanted to experience an Ideas in Food meal for so long that it would be artificially limiting myself not to sort [...]

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