Lindy Mechefske
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Lindy's best cheap eats in Kingston
With grocery prices skyrocketing and restaurant prices going up accordingly, eating out on a budget is becoming increasingly challenging. But don’t give up! Put down those ramen noodles and head out for some of Kingston’s best cheap eats. Got a suggestion to add to future “Cheap Eats in Kingston” columns? Please get in touch. Contact […] → Read More
Bellevue House garden, then and now
Then The year is 1848. It is summer in Kingston, Upper Canada. John A. Macdonald, Isabella Clark Macdonald and their infant son, John, have just moved into their new rental home, Bellevue House, on Centre Street. The large Italian-style villa is owned by Charles Hales, a very successful local merchant. Thirty-three-year-old John A., who is […] → Read More
A true honey do list
About a year after I started adding a half teaspoon of beautiful, local, raw, unpasteurized honey to my morning cup of coffee, apiarist Tammy Lloyd, of The Hive & Hearthstone in Napanee, asked me how my seasonal allergies were going. I had to think. “Funny thing,” I said, “I don’t remember suffering this year. That’s […] → Read More
Strawberry fields forever
Strawberry season is finally here in Ontario. Cool, wet weather delayed the crop by a week or two throughout the province making for the latest start to strawberry season in decades. → Read More
Real food, grown and raised locally
If you’re looking for a real way to eat better, improve your quality of life, support the local economy, reduce your carbon footprint, reduce packaging, improve regional food security, build community, and improve your long-term health – all at the same time – it’s very simple: stop buying overly processed and packaged food often shipped for thousands of miles, and start eating locally grown and… → Read More
About those taxpayer-funded refrigerators
Dear Galen,It’s me, Lindy. I know we haven’t spoken in a while.And I note that you haven’t had a chance to write back to my last letter — the one I wrote in December 2017, in an article entitled “Give us this day our daily bread. → Read More
Let’s talk about glyphosate
If you think you’ve seen and heard the word “glyphosate” used in the news a lot lately, you’re not wrong. → Read More
In lentils we should trust
Canada’s new food guide has been both praised and criticized for its simplicity. Some love the freedom it offers – a step forward from the old, rather rigid, portion sizes and recommended numbers of servings. → Read More
Why boxed meal kits are taking over our kitchens
During the last week of January when my fourth and final fresh food box was delivered to my front door in the middle of the polar vortex, I was surprised at how excited I was to retrieve the box and unpack it. → Read More
Eat your (dirty, rotten) vegetables
It’s hard to believe that eating your vegetables, just as your mother once told you to do, could leave you desperately ill and, in some cases, fighting for your life. But the recent E. → Read More
The 2018 food book gift guide
It’s true that most of us turn to the internet these days to find recipes. So then, who needs a cookbook anymore? And why is the competition for old cookbooks so fierce? My simple answer is this: Good food books are, and always will be, one of life’s great pleasures. → Read More
The 2018 food book gift guide
It’s true that most of us turn to the internet these days to find recipes. So then, who needs a cookbook anymore? And why is the competition for old cookbooks so fierce? My simple answer is this: Good food books are, and always will be, one of life’s great pleasures. → Read More
Eating more vegan-ly
The recent United Nations report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that a massive, widespread climate crisis is coming faster than expected and putting the future of civilization at stake. → Read More
A foraging dinner at Topsy Farms
If you’re really lucky in life, you will be blessed with many beautiful food memories. Behind the food memories, there is always love: that most essential of ingredients for good eating. It might not be the kind of love you expected. → Read More
On thankfulness and a carrot cake cheesecake
Thanksgiving is a journey home, even if the journey is only theoretical. It is, for so many of us, the favourite of holidays — evoking memories of food and abundance, family and home. Of pumpkins and fall colours. → Read More
Breakfast in the county
When I was 14 years old and dreaming in that obscure teenage way about my possible life as an adult, I had a recurring fantasy about being a restaurant reviewer. I would travel to New York City. Switzerland. Tokyo. → Read More
Foraging 101: ancient elderberry
Foraging requires a food literacy that’s been largely lost, as more and more of our foraging occurs in supermarkets with occasional forays to farmers markets and farm stands. → Read More
Best cheap eats in Kingston
Think eating out for $10 a head in Kingston is an impossible dream? Not so! Shut the front door and get out to eat. In some cases, you won’t even be able to cook at home as reasonab… → Read More
The high art of salad
Salad-making is an overlooked culinary artform. Salad is cross-cultural, colourful, revealing, multidisciplinary. It can be served for breakfast (fruit salad), lunch or dinner. It can be packed with protein: salmon, tuna, eggs, cheese, nuts, beans. Or it can be nothing but iceberg lettuce served with bottled salad dressing. It can be complex -- a c → Read More
A table-at-the-farm dinner in the county
Off the country road leading us to an old farmyard in Prince Edward County’s charming and slightly off-the-beaten-track Black River, we make a sharp right into a field and park the car. → Read More