soupnancy

On food, cooking and my life as a chef.
Navigation
  • About me and my blog
  • My Blog: Journal/Essay entries
  • My Blog: Bits and bites
  •   What's cooking
    • Menus
    • Ingredient or Dish
    • Recipe archives
  • More food writing
  •   My business
    •   Catering
    • Sample menus
Soupnancy News!
  • Holiday menu, Duck event dates
  • François at Jean Talon market
  • See us on Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie
Join in
  • Send email to subscribe
  • Search for..
  • Login
My lists
  • Favorite food books
  • Favorite food quotes
  •   Favourite Restaurants
    • My Montreal faves
    • Montreal Restaurant guides
    • Cafés and quick bites
    • Out of town
    • My 'to do' list
  •   Smart shopping
    • Quebec products to look - food and other
    • Montreal Food stores
    • Eco friendly stores
    • Shopping on line
Links
  • Favorite food links
  • Favorite blogs
  • —  Friends: Producers, Restaurants and other
  • Les Jardins Sauvages
  • Compost Montreal
Archives
  • Describing mushrooms
  • Wine pairing headaches, why?
  • Fried Green Tomatoes, finally
  • Cucumber
  • Coups de coeur - summer 2009
  • The chanterelle jackpot
  • Dish entertains
  • My new toy
  • Duck fat
  • My Morel
  • Ramps
  • Fiddleheads
  • Spring snapshots
  • Cuisine Canada Q&A
  • Fresh chickpeas
  • NYC and hydrocolloids
  • The other maple
  • Another reason to buy local
  • Cuisine Canada Blog, Fighting the winter/recesession blues
  • Enough! about foie gras.
  • We play as the plants rest
  • A New Year's toast for 2009
  • The Green Pan and other holiday gift ideas
  • My Kitchen Haikus
  • The weeds, aka the juice
  • The artist in me
  • A day in the woods
  • Fiddlling with food: Caprese salad
  • Vesce de loup contest
  • A mushroom fit for kings
  • Maurel Coulombe Ducks
  • The stars of summer
  • A diamond in the rough
  • The first signs of summer - snapshots
  • Market treats
  • C'est parti! The 2008 season is off..
  • Rice lettuce
  • Spring cleaning
  • Go Habs go!
  • For Easter: Eggs and God
  • Fun with Favourites
  • Slowing down to shell some nuts
  • Falling in and out of love
  • The Elements of Cooking
  • My new buddy, Mac
  • Hot and cold
  • Sausage talk
  • At the Mercy of Nature
  • What Leonard Cohen taught me about food
  • August in photos
  • Foie gras
  • Foraging and fishing, the first Chanterelles
  • Summer and sea spinach
  • Foraging for the holy trio
  • Spring things
  • Critics and stars
  • My Easter Egg
  • Memo to chefs: Don't forget about the wild stuff
  • Toqué on top
  • Montreal Highlights
  • No Shows
  • Anise
  • The GG challenge
  • The holidays
  • soupnancy on soup
  • Post mushroom week of treats
  • Mushroom mania
  • St-Roch, Planet Mars
  • The tug of war
  • More harvest talk
  • Birth of a blog, and Tomatoes
  • Peanuts
  • Wild foods
  • The disconnect
  • 2009 (1)
  • B&B 2006 (3)
  • B&B 2007 (13)
  • B&B 2008 (14)
  • B&B 2009 (10)
  • Bernard Loiseau
  • Cheap meat
  • Choose quality
  • Coming out of the closet
  • Crazy
  • Food as foreplay
  • Food karma
  • Life is what happens at the table
  • Molecular Gastronomy
  • My Mentor and my apprentice
  • My Specimen Pete
  • Our inferiority complex
  • Raw food
  • Size matters
  • The Chef: artist, technician, businessperson or kook?
  • The Nightmare
  • The Palette
  • The Pan-flipping contradiction
Learn more about...
  • Food science
  •   Food ethics
    • General
    • Sustainable Seafood
    • Organics
    • Equiterre
    • Slowfood
    • Fair trade
  •   Miscellaneous articles
    • Amber fields of Bland
    • Probiotics
    • Why roots matter more
    • Molecular Gastronomy Cheat sheet
    • Gourmet on sustainability
    • Grass-fed basics
    • The Truth about Saturated Fat
    • Cultivating truffles
    • Unhappy meals, by Michael Pollan
    • Our decrepit food factories, by Michael Pollan
    • Yes, MSG the secret behind the savor
    • Inside the raw milk underground
    • I'm a Natural Born Killer
    • Pesticide Guide
    • The Case for working with your hands
Photos, Media..
  • Photo gallery
  •   Newspaper , Magazine articles
    • The Metropolitain Montreal Weekly
    • The fun in funghi, Gazette article October 2007
    • Finders Eaters
    • Mushroom Boom
    • On Boletus
    • Brigade: De la ferme à la table
    • Le Banc d'Essai du CDBL Lanaudière
    • How local can you go?
    • The Self-Appointed Critics
    • Short Hops, Montreal Gazette Travel section
  •   TV/Radio
    • Des Kiwis et des Hommes on Radio Canada
    • François on La Semaine Verte
    • The Chef's Domain with Nancy Hinton
    • L'Épicerie Tv show
    • On the radio
  • Blogosphere and web media
  • Producer Friends

    • John Bastien, La Ferme Morgan
      A superb organic farm (duck, guinea hen, beef, sanglichon..) in Weir. He delivers to a few Montreal locations. Visit his website to find out more about the benefits of duck and organic farming.
    • Antonio Pettinicchi
      My favorite olive oil.
    • Epynord: Yves, Pierre and Jonathan
      Producer of web-sites and graphic design for restaurants in particular.
    • Les Jardins de la Mer, Claudie Gagné
      Wild marine plants like sea asparagus, sea spinach... 418-714-0075
    • Ferme Bionicale
      A little organic farm in the Lanaudière where Richard Behm works very hard to work with nature, and produces some great greens, fruit and veg.
    • Ferme Mangetout on the West Island
      A C.S.A. run by a couple of young people, they deliver to la Maison Verte in NDG.
    • La Suisse Normande in St-Roch d'Achigan
      Specializing in goat cheeses, they also have some cow and sheep's milk cheeses, all are good. 450-588-6503
    • Highwood Crossing Canola oil
      Canada's 'olive oil', a cold-pressed canola oil worth seeking out!
    • La Clef des Champs in Val David
      Quality organic herbs, medicinal plants and teas. Their spices are fragrant..
    • L'Arome des Bois
      François' uncle's wild plant products are sold about town. Try the old fashioned crinkleroot mustard.
    • Ferme A. Cormier in L'Assomption
      A farmside stand with great asparagus, tomatoes, corn and berries. 450-589-5019
    • Les Fromagiers de la Table Ronde in Ste-Sophie
      Producers of La Rassembleu and Le Fou du Roy, great cheeses. 450-530-2436
    • La Maison Orphée
      A respectable Québec company that makes terrific organic oils and now, vinegars.
    • Miels d'Anicet in Ferme Neuve (Mont Laurier)
      incredible certified organic honey. The summer honey is my fave. 819-587-4825
    • Cheftech
      Chef and waiter uniforms..
    • Gaspor
      Dynamite Quebec producer of suckling pig
    • Domaine Maurel-Coulombe
      Small production, artisanal duck and foie gras by a lovely, young and passionate French couple doing things the old fashioned way.
  • Restaurant Friends

    • Monkland Tavern
      Jon, Barb, Steve, Don and Bo: My home away from home, a great place to grab a bite and a glass of wine in NDG.
    • Toqué
      Montreal's best for fine dining.
    • LaLouisiane
      For the ribs, the warm ambiance or the lovable Kyle Kerr, this is an NDG favorite.
    • No.9 Park
      A fabulous restaurant in Boston where I did a stage. The chef-owner, Barbara Lynch, is a true talent and dynamo, so down to earth and generous...and her team follows suit.
    • Panache
      Modern regional Quebecois French cuisine by François Blais, in a beautiful setting in Old Québec by the water. The hotel is a successful mix of contemporary boutique style and museum. Historical artifacts are everywhere.
    • Anne Desjardins and L'Eau à la Bouche in Ste-Adele
      25 years of top notch Quebec regional cuisine in a country setting with full service yet unpretensious and generous. A real treat for the senses, especially now with the spa.
  • Association friends

    • Cuisine Canada
      An association of culinary professionals whose goal is promote Canadian cuisine.
    • Slowfood
    • L'alliance de femmes professionelles en metiers de la bouche
    • Action Boreale
      Richard Desjardins' movement to protect Québec's forests. Investigate: the situation is troubling. Join and sign the petition.
    • Pearson School of Culinary Arts
      My cooking school, great teachers, great place... Also a bargain place to grab a bite.
  • Other friends doing great stuff

    Here are some talented "Normal people" not in the restaurant business.
    • Kanuk
      A proud Québec company who make top quality winter coats, headed by the coolest couple, Louis and Nathalie.
    • Angela Arno
      Hip, handmade jewelry made by my talented friend, Ange.
    • DB Worx 514-806-8874  dbworx@gmail.com
      Dave Brown does home repairs with care. Good rates, no job too small.
    • Joel Kucer Designs
      Custom hand crafted jewelry and art. Eco-friendly.
    • Paul's band 34Soul
      My brother Paul's latest band.
    • The Comedyworks on Bishop St.
      For Stand-up, Ian Campbell's company or a good pour...514-398-9661
    • Laurie Campbell
      An extremely talented Montreal artist known for her urban scenes in watercolor and oil.
    • Seigneurie du Triton
      A top of the line hunting and fishing camp north of La Tuqe in Québec.
    • La Quai des Bulles
      Beautiful artisanal soaps from Kamouraska.
    • Yogabloom
      Angi Bloom, an experienced, innovative yoga instructor, gives classes of all kinds, both in the Laurentians and in Montreal.
Copyright © 2006, Nancy Hinton. All rights reserved.