MONDOmagazine » Food http://mondomagazine.net We're not geeks! Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:39:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Digesting Japan, Pt. 1 http://mondomagazine.net/2008/digesting-japan-pt-1/ http://mondomagazine.net/2008/digesting-japan-pt-1/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:00:16 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=2751 A thrilling travel and food mini-series! Not a break-up story. By Leo K. Moncel Japan is crazy, right? Is there any other country that looms so large in the international imagination as a haven for the bizarre? Over the years, I became so used to hearing urban legends and ridiculous-sounding cultural generalizations about Japan that I started to disbelieve by default whatever I was told about it. I became certain that people were exaggerating the national character of Japan with each new conversation about it, like a fishing story. It seemed to have become a place known for extremes, used by people as a canvas on which to project their own outlandish visions. The truth about Japan, I assumed, was probably like most things in life: far more mundane than the fantasy. I spent three weeks in Japan at the end of August. Upon my return, the first thing I was asked by a lot of people was, "What was the most surprising thing about Japan?" My response: surprise that it did actually conform to almost every outlandish-sounding [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2008/digesting-japan-pt-1/feed/ 2 Red Food: Meat, I’m Yours http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-meat-im-yours/ http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-meat-im-yours/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:00:20 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=2107 A spirited defense of why it is sometimes okay to MURDER a helpless animal and eat it.05 By Leo K. Moncel Meat, meat, meat, you femme fatale. You're literally killing Canadians as I write this. You're killing the planet faster than ever. I used to know better than to tango with you. But I'm done with this love/hate relationship. Wicked, corrupting as you are, I'm giving my heart to you. You're my salty poison and my never-ending possibility. I love you more than I thought was possible in my youth. [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-meat-im-yours/feed/ 5 Red Food: The Horse Slaughterhouse Problem http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-the-horse-slaughterhouse-problem/ http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-the-horse-slaughterhouse-problem/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:00:27 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=1313 Excessive scale, not horse consumption, the real problem in Saskatchewan disgrace. By Leo K. Moncel Last month, Canadians were shocked by a CBC exposé of a Saskatchewan slaughterhouse. Hidden cameras revealed animals being crammed in oversized pens, being brought to slaughter in a panicked state, then slipping around the killing floor while an operator failed to stun them unconscious before they were killed. It was a scene of factory farming at its worst taking place within our borders at Natural Valley Farms in Neudorf, Saskatchewan. But the conditions of the slaughterhouse were especially appalling to many of the Canadian public because of the type of animal on the killing floor — the horse [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-the-horse-slaughterhouse-problem/feed/ 7 Red Food: Chinese Beef Lamb House Reviewed http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-chinese-beef-lamb-house-reviewed/ http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-chinese-beef-lamb-house-reviewed/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:00:05 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=1224 Foodstuffs' hippest young hypocrite with another hit! By Leo K. Moncel Attentive internauts may notice that in the previous column, I expressed my opinion that we all need to eat less meat and implied I was working on it myself. So why have I turned around and run out to eat at an establishment called the Chinese Beef Lamb House? Even more attentive readers may recall that the first paragraph of last week's column was about how I'm really big on traditional cuisines. Basically, when I heard there was a good Chinese-Muslim restaurant in the GTA, I had no choice but to put my eat-less-meat reform on pause and get on the hated purple subway line to Scarborough to gorge myself with some good friends. [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-chinese-beef-lamb-house-reviewed/feed/ 2 Red Food: The Food Crisis http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-the-food-crisis/ http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-the-food-crisis/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:00:42 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=1174 Gangs, Grains, and Grimness! By Leo K. Moncel Before we get going, I'd just like to point out that this is in fact a continuation of the column that began as, "Taste Test: A New Beginning". There was some confusion between myself and our devoted, young section editor over the name of my column. So, let me explain what's going on with "Red Food." It is a reference to Timothy Taylor's Stanley Park, a novel that I have not yet read, but have heard discussed on CBC Radio's Canada Reads. Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy synopsized a section of the book in which two different kinds of foodies are arbitrarily designated gang titles. The first group, "Crips" are people who are interested in innovation. "Bloods" are those who are attracted to tradition. Though I think it's impossible to be a pure innovator or a pure traditionalist, I do tend to favour the "red" end of the spectrum when I do serious cooking or plan to eat out. Hence, red food. I could easily go on, as food traditions and street gangs are two topics of great interest to me, but there is something more urgent on my mind: The Food Crisis [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2008/red-food-the-food-crisis/feed/ 1 The Organized Thinker: Weathering the Poorhouse http://mondomagazine.net/2008/the-organized-thinker-weathering-the-poorhouse/ http://mondomagazine.net/2008/the-organized-thinker-weathering-the-poorhouse/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 04:00:56 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=1068 Steph Perkins is an organized thinker. In the time it takes you to read this column, she did her taxes for the next four years in advance. Trust her advice. Q. I did something really stupid and blew my entire month's pay on a trip to Vegas and now I am so broke I can't imagine how I'll possibly endure the next few weeks. I hear you're a bit of a skid — can you pass on some expertise on how to survive on a bare minimum till I'm back on my feet? You heard right, super skid to the rescue! Oh I've been there, hell I'm pretty much permanently there, and you'll be fine. Honestly, probably the hardest thing you'll [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2008/the-organized-thinker-weathering-the-poorhouse/feed/ 1 Taste Test: A New Beginning http://mondomagazine.net/2008/taste-test_kc-done/ http://mondomagazine.net/2008/taste-test_kc-done/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 04:00:16 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=1069 Leo K. Moncel outlines a new food column. Your first stop to reading yourself into a big fat gut! By Leo K. Moncel I usually don't find the first three movie, album, or restaurant reviews by a given critic to be very helpful. By about the fourth review, I've gotten a good sense of the reviewer's criteria and sensibilities. I've learned what this person values in a story or an experience and I know what to take from their opinions. Before I begin my own fortnightly discussion of food and society, I'd like to skip this warm-up period and give you, the reader, a picture of my sensibilities as clearly as I can, by telling you what I like [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2008/taste-test_kc-done/feed/ 0 Dear Loblaws, I Hate You http://mondomagazine.net/2008/dear-loblaws-i-hate-you/ http://mondomagazine.net/2008/dear-loblaws-i-hate-you/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 05:00:31 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=1023

MONDO takes on the corporate giants

By Jenny Bundock Illustrations by Dara Gold Today, I woke up and was craving coconut. I am a coconut fanatic. I like it in and on everything. I could (and do) eat coconut oil with a spoon. Coconut is amazing. Sadly the only place that I can get a real coconut that is still in its shell is at Loblaws. I don't shop at Loblaws if I can avoid it but sometimes you just really want something only they have (Fruit Loops, coconuts, something in a box) and you decide "what the hell, I'll brave that sprawling food warehouse and get what I need." Today was that day for me. Big mistake. Not only did I have to pay almost two dollars for a coconut that was shrink-wrapped with plastic. It's a fucking coconut! You have to break it open with a hammer! Its existing package could not be more durable or designed better to protect the product inside. Did someone say "Hmm, you know, this coconut isn't producing enough landfill waste… couldn't we wrap it in plastic or something?" We are a sick, sick species [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2008/dear-loblaws-i-hate-you/feed/ 19 Chip Review: Doritos Collisions: Hot Wings and Blue Cheese http://mondomagazine.net/2008/chip-review-doritos-collisions-hot-wings-and-blue-cheese/ http://mondomagazine.net/2008/chip-review-doritos-collisions-hot-wings-and-blue-cheese/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:00:41 +0000 admin http://mondomagazine.net/?p=954 Delicious, but costlyDare we dream of a two-chip future? By Owen Craig Now, I'm not normally the type to deem a new flavour of chip a "must try," but come on, two flavours in one bag! No longer shall I have the arduous task of pouring chips from two seperate bags into a bowl and mixing them with my hands or some sort of salad fork. Any fan of eating chicken wings (like me) will surely be drawn in by the promise of the two flavours being "Hot Wings" and "Blue Cheese." In theory, when I eat these chips together it will taste like I'm eating hot wings with a delicious blue cheese sauce. But how do the chips fare in a taste test? [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2008/chip-review-doritos-collisions-hot-wings-and-blue-cheese/feed/ 0 Denny’s Dishes: Pan-seared Salmon with Corn Salsa http://mondomagazine.net/2007/dennys-dishes-pan-seared-salmon-with-corn-salsa/ http://mondomagazine.net/2007/dennys-dishes-pan-seared-salmon-with-corn-salsa/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:51:52 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=240 By Elisha Denburg Ingredients 2 salmon fillets 2 cobs of corn, husked, niblets cut off ½ onion, diced 1 tsp each, minced — ginger, garlic 1 tbsp each — olive oil, butter 1 tsp each, ground — cumin, coriander, fennel, smoked paprika 1 tbsp pure maple syrup 1 tsp hot chili sauce zest and juice of 3-4 limes a large handful of fresh chopped coriander leaves coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper Directions Heat oil and butter in a medium non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Rub cumin, coriander, fennel, paprika, salt, and pepper all over salmon fillets [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2007/dennys-dishes-pan-seared-salmon-with-corn-salsa/feed/ 0 Denny’s Dishes: Pizza http://mondomagazine.net/2007/dennys-dishes-pizza/ http://mondomagazine.net/2007/dennys-dishes-pizza/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:54:15 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=241 The “I don’t want to be an asshole, but this is the best pizza I’ve ever made” pizza: with Italian sausage, caramelized fennel, anchovies, red onion, and buffalo mozzarella with herbed olive oil. By Elisha Denburg Ingredients hot Italian sausage, fully cooked and cut into thin slices one large fennel root, very thinly sliced; also cut up the soft green tops a few very thin slices of red onion 6 anchovy fillets [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2007/dennys-dishes-pizza/feed/ 0 Denny’s Dishes: French Toast http://mondomagazine.net/2007/dennys-dishes-french-toast/ http://mondomagazine.net/2007/dennys-dishes-french-toast/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:56:42 +0000 lifestyle http://mondomagazine.net/?p=242 The Best French Toast is served with warm fruit topping By Elisha Denburg A delicious and devilishly decadent dessert — for breakfast! Ingredients thickly sliced challah (egg bread) about 1 large egg for every 2 pieces of bread a splash of milk a dash of cinnamon a few drops of vanilla extract 4 tablespoons of butter pure Canadian maple syrup (room temperature or warmer) powdered sugar and fresh mint leaves for garnish (adds pizzazz and pretentiousness) a selection of fruit [...]]]> http://mondomagazine.net/2007/dennys-dishes-french-toast/feed/ 0