If there’s one pleasure we associate with winter, it’s hot chocolate. A treat for children and a guilty pleasure for adults, the chocolatey drink is a symbol of all that’s…

From appetizer to dessert… For this column, which is about joyously celebrating the Holiday Season, I thought I’d provide suggestions of wines which would, I hope, please most readers. Prior…

By Marc-André Latour The brief, dark days are here and with the coming of the cold, we feel a great need for comfort. Welcome to the winter cocktails, whether before…

Vienna, the valley of the Danube… names that evoke imperial gardens and baroque cities. And then there are the alpine mountains, from which resound the echoes of another era on…

Northern fruits: packed with vitamins! When we think of wild berries, it is blueberries, strawberries and raspberries that come first to mind. But when we realize the variety of berries…

This month, let’s explore a wine-growing area too often forgotten: that of the south-west. Because of its geographic location, it has often been under the control of others: first the…

The world of wild mushrooms remains a mystery for most of us. We are often afraid of them. We consider them sometimes hard to find, sometimes very plentiful, and believe…

When we imagine wild harvesting we usually picture vast virgin spaces to which we must travel great distances if we are to enjoy their boreal flavours. And yet in fact,…

This month I decided to take a small break from the world of wine to go meet the buzzing gang from the world of beekeeping. Off to Ferme-Neuve, in the…

Our initial reflex when looking for food may be to head to the supermarket and, in season, to the farmers’ markets. But wait! The generations that came before us obtained…