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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

FED#5: The Home Garden

Guests 5.1-5.3

Status: FED vegetables from their home garden

-Koshihikari & salmon terrine wrapped in chard leaves

-Borscht with barley

Guest 5.1: Vivian Reiss

Occupation: Artist

Brought: Huge bag of produce from her garden

Sent thank you: email next day

Guest 5.2: Ariel Garten

Occupation: “I own a thought controlled computing company (unfortunately the big project we're doing is super confidential and I can't mention it) but I can say 'who is recognized by the Ministry of Research and Innovation as the forefront of Innovation in Ontario'. We have done many concerts and large scale installations where users engage with the world, or music, or video content using thought alone (www.interaxon.ca). I am also a psychotherapist (www.neuroconsulting.net), interdisciplinary neuroscientist"

Sent thank you: email next day

Guest: Helen Spitzer

Occupation: Journalist

Sent thank you: Sent an actual thank you card in the actual mail.

Left behind: Midwinter bowl she'd just excitedly purchased. It's mine now.

Date of Publication: November 14th, 2009

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

FED#4: The Brother

FED guest # 4

Status: Fed

1. Raw hamachi with pomelo, daikon and candycane beets.

2. Israeli couscous with kale, sweet potatoes, goji berries and ground cherries.

Publication date: November 7^th, 2009

Guest#4: Yonan Mintz

Occupation: Executive Search Consultant with Permanent Search

Brought: Called at last minute to ask if he could bring anything

Attitude: Pushy but loveable.

Helped with dishes: Nope

Sent thank you: “Why would I thank you again? I thanked you for dinner that night. Should we say goodbye again?”

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Empty Tummy Mission

Operation: Use up stuff in fridge.

If you are like me, then you have a fridge filled with random items like a single quail, israeli couscous or chestnuts cooked in syrup. And like most average Joes you've also given the butler the day off. What would Slim Thug do?

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

FED #3: the fatty dinner

FED Guests #3 (3.1-3.5)

Status: Fed Fat

a) hot buttered bourbon.

b) brussels sprouts with smoked brisket fat

c) guanciale & pumpkin soup

d) duck & fingerling confit topped with cheddar & provolone

e) spicy buttered popcorn

Guest 3.1: Jesse Brown

Occupation: broadcaster, host of TVO’s Search Engine, agitator

Brought: Bottega Prosecco

Helped with dishes: with gusto (documented in historic photo)

Sent thank you: Next day email

Facial hair: Rebearded after brief, ill-considered debearding

Guest 3.2: Katie Minsky

Occupation: writer for Children’s television

Brought: Cormi Zenato 2006

Helped with dishes: Washed, dried, even when I insisted it was enough (became obsessed with squid print on small dish)

Sent thank you: Compliment-strewn email two days later

Guest 3.3: Leah McLaren

Occupation: writer, Globe & Mail columnist

Brought: Raven’s Wood Zinfandel 2006

Marital status: Not having an affair with me (like most people), despite earlier promises

Helped with dishes: Watched while Katie washed dishes

Sent thank you: emailed within one hour

Guest 3.4: Bradley Denton

Occupation: designer, restaurateur (co-owner Le Petit Castor, Czehoski)

Brought: Remoissenet Pere & Fils Les Champeaux Gevrey-Chambertin premier cru 2006, dimmers, Two Dishes (cookbook by Linda Haynes & Devin Connell)

Helped with dishes: No, but installed dimmers on my lamps. Came back two days later, changed bulbs and installed more dimmers.

Sent thank you: Email next day

Guest 3.5: Kate Chartrand

Occupation: Director of PR, Hermes Canada

Brought: Remoissenet Pere & Fils Les Champeaux Gevrey-Chambertin premier cru 2006, dimmers for lamps, Two Dishes (cookbook by Linda Haynes & Devin Connell)

Helped with dishes: no

Sent thank you: Ultra-classy handwritten card in mail, beautiful penmanship