November-December 2019

Welcome to the November/December 2019 edition of the Tomato, the holiday, cheese and chocolate issue

Tomato cover November December 2019

Features

Wines from the Rich Uncle and the Cash-Strapped Friend
2019 edition

The Anatomy of a Cheese Board
What makes a cheese board look great and taste better? | Mary Bailey

Things That Go With Cheese
All the delicious extras

Plain Vanilla? Not a chance
From tropical orchids to your cookie recipe, this clasic natural flavour never gets old | Iain Ilich

Great Canadian Kitchen Party
The Edmonton competition

Departments

Dish
Three cookbooks, French cuisine in Strathcona and High Street, Farewell to Hardware Grill, plus: prosecco gummies

Pantry
Chocolate for cheese

Beer Guy
Year in Beer | Peter Bailey

The Proust Culinary Questionnaire
Brad and Leanne Smoliak, Kitchen by Brad

Wine Maven
Poli grappas, Blaufränkisch wines, Jane Ferrari talks Yalumba clarification, Alvaro Ruiz on Andalusia, Alberto Zenato pours Amarone, plus: Federica Mascheroni Stianti’s Chianti Classico | Mary Bailey

Wine Maven Event Calendar

Kitchen Sink
What’s up on Edmonton’s food scene, right now

The Crossword
Myles Mellor