Shinan: What difference does music make? A lot, when it comes to Momofuku
What’s that chopping sound you hear on Adelaide Street? Likely kimchi being chopped with ferocious speed. That smell? Probably steamed buns, and freshly cooked noodles being prepped in the downtown...
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Food mingles with cinema at TIFF Bell Lightbox’s new subscription series
Annabelle Waugh’s grandmother had a saying: “There are two industries where you are always guaranteed work: food and death.” Waugh chose the former, and now the Canadian Living food director will host...
View ArticleShinan: Sticky solution sees star stylist Kate Young shudder
Double-sided sticky tape? Not a chance, darling. One of Hollywood’s most in-demand illusionists zipped into Canada recently, spending just enough time to make a horrific face when broached with the...
View ArticleChef David Chang on Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman: 'I watch it more than any...
Momofuku chef David Chang will be in Toronto on April 3 to discuss Ang Lee’s 1994 film Eat Drink Man Woman as part of the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s Food on Film series. We spoke with the culinary...
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The Tastemakers: Why we are gaga about kimchee, but apple pie is so last week
Up on the airy top floor of the Momofuku restaurant group in Toronto’s Shangri-La hotel, David Sax beholds the future on the plate in front of him. Three soft white buns envelop crunchy cumin, tamarind...
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David Chang on Toronto's food scene: 'We're not there yet, but I believe it...
TORONTO — David Chang believes Toronto has a brilliant future as a culinary destination, but the award-winning chef thinks the city needs “the audacity to dream” to fulfill that vision and achieve a...
View ArticleDavid Chang’s ramen-omelette hybrid, the ramlet, is your new favourite...
Ramen is dead; long live the ramlet. Just days after declaring ramen over, Momofuku chef David Chang has resurrected the dish — or, at least, its packaged seasoning — in the form of the ramlet, the...
View ArticleChris Ying and Lucky Peach examine the importance of what we eat without an...
A half decade ago, Chris Ying wasn’t fully convinced that food was important. “When we started it, I always thought of food and the things I care about as separate things,” Ying says. “I worked at an...
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Why sommeliers are scrambling to stay relevant as fine dining undergoes a...
“The gas flames in the glass-walled hearth are a cheerful sight,” Pete Wells wrote in January, in a review of Thomas Keller’s Per Se restaurant in the New York Times, “and the view of Central Park’s...
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One of these is the Cronut, the other is food plagiarism — and you can’t stop it
To taste a Cronut — an actual, legit Cronut — you must be willing to brave the sea of humanity that amasses each morning outside Dominique Ansel Bakery in Manhattan. You can also go to a Dunkin’ Donuts...
View ArticleHow sneering at the mainstream leads to missing out on simple pleasures, like...
Looming over my block, sprouting from a parking lot just north of my apartment, towers the glaring, browbeating face of a Budweiser billboard, taunting every passerby with its portrait of an immaculate...
View ArticleMartha Stewart says millennials are lazy and need to ‘go out and grow a...
Martha Stewart does not like millennials. Yes, her company may be pushing products at the younger generation, but that doesn’t mean she has to understand them. “I think every business is trying to...
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Mmmm, mayo custard desserts: Cult favourite Kewpie mayonnaise to open ‘mayo...
Fans of cult favourite Kewpie mayonnaise will soon be able to make a pilgrimage to “Kewpie Mayo Cafés” in Japan, Munchies reports. The umami-rich condiment is decidedly different from other...
View ArticleWhy hast thou forsaken us, Lucky Peach? Chef David Chang’s food quarterly is...
UPDATE: Peter Meehan confirmed that Lucky Peach is closing in a blog post published on March 15. Meehan wrote that luckypeach.com will cease operations on May 1, and the magazine “will finish out with...
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Anthony Bourdain’s The Mind of a Chef is leaving PBS for upcoming season
Combining travel, science, art and history, The Mind of a Chef is a cooking show par excellence. Over five seasons, the Anthony Bourdain-produced series has taken viewers from Tokyo to Montreal, and...
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Gordon Ramsay says chefs who ban photos at their restaurants are pompous ‘old...
While scrolling through your Instagram feed, you’re bound to see at least one of three things: selfies, sunsets and snaps of your friend’s brunch, lunch or dinner. It’s might be what the social network...
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Momofuku’s David Chang hunts down ‘Ugly Delicious’ food on new Netflix show
“This is basically one of the ugliest dishes I’ve ever made,” chef David Chang says of a “vaguely Portuguese-Korean” creation in a clip from his new Netflix show, Ugly Delicious. As he prepares to make...
View ArticleChef David Chang is launching a new food and culture podcast on The Ringer
Burgeoning media mogul David Chang is launching a food and culture podcast this week, Eater reports. The renowned chef and restaurateur is partnering with sports columnist Bill Simmons on The Dave...
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