This week's episode is a book review of Anthony Bourdain's Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook.  Check it out!

Medium Raw on HarperCollins (Canada) - http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/Medium-Raw-Anthony-Bourdain/

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Trinity Irish Pub's first annual Burns Dinner was a complete success!  Join us for a run down of the fair Scotches and Scottish fare that we enjoyed on January 24, 2012.

• Trinity Irish Pub -  http://www.trinityirishpub.ca/
• Scotland's Official Burns Night Website - http://www.scotland.org/culture/festivals/burns-night/
• The Black Grouse - http://www.thefamousgrouse.com/lda/
• The Macallan - http://www.themacallan.com/home.aspx
• Highland Park - http://www.highlandpark.co.uk/
• Laphroaig - http://www.laphroaig.com/

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A month ago, we were at the Ex sampling some amazing food and drinks!

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Welcome readers of the out standing webcomic Red String!  We recently started advertising, and Red String was our maiden voyage into the world of ads through Project Wonderful. 

This weeks episode is a review of the fancy sushi chain Ichiban and another volume of the Oishinbo series.  Photos to come!

• Ichiban Sushi House Canada http://www.ichibansushi.com/
• Oishinbo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oishinbo
• Fish, Sushi and Sashimi @ Library Thing - http://www.librarything.com/work/7859273

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Happy Thanksgiving, Fellow Canadians!

This week's episode covers another installment of Oishimbo (this time an overview of Japanese cuisine), and reviews of a local Italian bakery and the Moon Festival offerings of Mandarin Buffet (pictures coming of the later as soon as they're off Tracy's phone).

• Oishimbo - Japanese Cuisine - http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/05/13/oishinbo-a-la-carte-1-japanese-cuisine/
• The Baker's Table (227 Bloor Street E, Oshawa ON, 905-435-1036) - http://www.yelp.ca/biz/bakers-table-oshawa
• Mandarin Buffet - http://www.mandarinbuffet.com/main.asp

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This week's episode is a book review of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential.  It's exploitational, but we can't necessarily say over-exaggerated.  This episode isn't rated as "clean" because the book makes numerous references to alcohol and drug use, as well a informal dalliances with the opposite sex (I think I said that as polite as I possibly could).  An entertaining read from someone who really has been there and done that (probably a few times), Boudain's Kitchen Confidential is the flag ship of restaurant exposés, that have influenced many others to write their own memoirs of how things really are in the kitchens of restaurants.

• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - http://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Confidential-Adventures-Culinary-Underbelly/dp/0060934913
• The Rise of The Superchef (BBC) - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7908794.stm
• Reclaiming The Toothbrush Mustache - http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/11/cohen200711
• Original Reggae Skinheads - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPZFpWC9o4

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Usually we avoid trendy places, instead looking for great food at affordable prices - well, aZian seems to offer all three under one roof, as well as one of our favourite cuisines - Asian!

• aZian (1365 Wilson Road North #2, Oshawa ON) - http://www.azian.ca/
• Japanese funerary rites and how they apply to stainless steel chopsticks - http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_funeral
• All you need to know about chopsticks in one place. Yes, we love wikipedia. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks
• Yes, more Wikipedia...but about mochi! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochi

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We like to think of ourselves as being culinary adventurous, but travel costs a lot of money, so until we get a radio or TV show we have to make due with the magic of books to transport us to exotic edibles and forbidden foods.  Tom's book (believe us, Mr. Bowles, it's better we refer to you informally in the show so we'll stop butchering your last name) is just the ticket to reading about dishes that you could only imagine yourself eating (or not eating).

• The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/617964

• Tom Parker Bowles' Archive on the Daily Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/columnist-1003632/Tom-Parker-Bowles.html
• Food Legends: Gloucester Elvers - http://www.information-britain.co.uk/food/foodlegends/Gloucester%20elvers/
• NMSU Chile Pepper Instutite - http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/
• Fiery Foods Show - http://www.fiery-foods.com/
• Time Out Beijing Insect Delicacies - http://www.timeout.com/cn/en/beijing/restaurants/feature/3644/insect-delicacies.html
• Prince's Hot Chicken - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72xXxV9qIPg
• Jack Daniel's Invitational BBQ - http://www.jackdaniels.com/TheDistillery/InvitationalBBQ.aspx
• Fugu - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu
• Asian Animal Protection Network Food Dogs Website (WARNING: there are GRAPHIC pictures of how dogs are kept and treated cruelly in order to make their meat "better") - http://www.aapn.org/fooddogs.html
• BBC In Pictures: Unusual Lao Cuisine - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/asia_pac_unusual_lao_cuisine/html/1.stm
• Spanish Barnacles - http://www.iberianature.com/material/barnacles.htm
• Best of Sicily: Sicilian Cuisine - http://www.bestofsicily.com/food.htm

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This week's episode discusses a curry restaurant in Oshawa, as well as our respective first times eating at Indian or "Curry" restaurants.  Mmmmm!  Pardon the gratuitous Red Dwarf references.  Tracy also does a quick review of yet another book about the pleasures of tasty adult beverages - Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis.

• Red Dwarf Official UK Site - http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/index.cfm
• Cafe of India (reopened in a new location! 1894B Mileground Rd., Morgantown WV) - http://www.cafeofindia.net/
• Tamarind Flavor of India (257 N. Craig Street, Pittburgh PA) - http://www.tamarindpa.com/tfi/index.shtml
• Curry Club (38 Simcoe St N, Oshawa ON) - http://www.goldbook.ca/ajax/Restaurants/16489_Curry-Club-Restaurant.html
• Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/399573.Everyday_Drinking

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Long overdue, here is part one of many episodes about cheese. We give a basic primer on tasting, pairing and varieties of cheese.  So, don't be shy, grab some cheese!

• Why is Cheddar Cheese Orange? (The Straight Dope) - http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1284/why-is-cheddar-cheese-orange
• Cheese Pairings - http://www.artisanalcheese.com/pair_wine/
• Wallace & Grommit - http://www.wallaceandgromit.com/

These are but a few websites about cheese making:

• Gourmet Sleuth (Cheesemaking Recipes) - http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/Recipes/Cheese-Making-Recipes-304.aspx
• Glengarry Cheesemaking & Dairy Supply - http://www.glengarrycheesemaking.on.ca

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