Sarah on Three Foodie Websites

This month Andrea Chiu and Ben Ratcliffe launched a new blog, called Tongue and Cheek. It promises to feature lots of podcasts, and their first one, all about spring things, is now up. If you have half an hour of listening time, the complete podcast features Chris Brown (The Stop Community Food Centre) discussing asparagus, Ben on pastitsio, Tom Morana (Bar Volo) on local beers, Hannah Classen on homemade sausages and Andrea talking to me about herb gardening. If you only have four minutes to spare, there's a little clip of the herb gardening segment in which I manage on the spur of the moment to make a surprisingly coherent connection between railway trains and herb gardening.

Over at the Fiesta Farms site, they're running a series called "Apron Strings", about preserving food traditions, in honour of Mother's Day. I was invited to submit a contribution, so I posted a little piece about my mom's Ontario roots and a certain blueberry pie. I look forward to reading the contributions of other writers, including Joshna Maharaj, Mary Luz Mejia and Maia Filar.

And if you happened to miss it, about two weeks ago I was included among yet another blush-inducingly impressive group of people who were asked to write their Greatest Wine Story Ever Told by Spotlight City's Suresh Doss. I especially like Alex Harber's video tale of ketchup chips and a famous widow. Check it out!