I just came back from 2 amazing days in Northern Vermont.

You see, I was hired to be a chauffeur to an evil capitalist management consultant who was going to a small Vermont town - with or without me - to convince a nice small-town Vermont construction company owner to diversify and morph into […]

Peter shares his recipe for “spring salad” aka egg-less chopped egg salad.

Peter talks about his CSA box.

Peter (aka Nosher of the North), the Montreal Ethicurean contributor, talks about his CSA boxes.

I have made mention several times of my community garden plot, most recently when I made Sorrel Potato Soup from the first growth of sorrel, which is a perennial and returns to the plot each year. I also mentioned that the garden season had a very late start this year due to soil analysis results […]

Spring is sprung — even though it is officially over in a few days — and our farmers markets are finally showing some local produce besides last years carrots.

Most importantly, asparagus is here. I have been buying and grilling it for almost a week now, and I don’t see Noshette and I getting bored of […]

Sometimes I get so pissed off by the world we live in, all I want to do is scream.
Instead, I garden.
I can’t believe what people are putting into my food, into your food, just to get rich. Is money that important?
I don’t make a lot of money, but I have an apartment, a television, a […]

I apologize for not posting last week, but I’ve been quite busy lately. I’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks playing drums for a college production of the musical “Hair” and I also celebrated my birthday last week.
Noshette kindly took me out to an early dinner (I had a 7pm curtain call) […]

By this time last year, I had already cleaned up my community garden plot and sowed my seeds, after laying down a few bags of organic manure bought from a farmer in the Eastern Townships.
Here is what my plot looked like the first week of May, 2006. You can see Noshette and my garden partner […]

My beloved chocolate, whose place in my heart (and stomach) is eclipsed only by the lovely Noshette of the North, is in grave danger.
I was alerted to very serious situation by The Center for Food Safety, from which I receive regular alerts via email. You can get yourself on their email list by joining their […]

Montrealers should be aware that a documentary about large-scale hog producers that was produced in 2002 will be screened this coming Sunday afternoon:
Bacon, the film
Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 4pm
Redpath Museum Auditorium
859 Sherbrooke West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
French with English subtitles
Admission is free with a donation to the museum
I will be definitely be there, but Noshette may […]

Note: This is the second part of a 2-part series about my visit to Toronto, Ontario. Part One can be found here.
“Pass the peas!”
“Pass the chicken!”
“Pass the matzah!”
One thing about visiting family: You eat A LOT.
Trying to work off some of the unnecessary calories that we had ingested at the uncountable number of family meals […]

It seems that Canadian industrial hog farmers have forgotten why food exists.
They have forgotten that food is for eating, and not just for selling. It just so happened that due to the industrial revolution, and the creation and eventual popularization of city living, that many people who eat food stopped raising or growing their own […]

To celebrate Passover, a time when the Jews wandered 40 years in the desert searching for the land of milk & honey, Noshette and I wandered 4 hours westward in search of organic milk and wild honey (and some other sustainable foods). Noshette was born and raised in Toronto, so we were going there to […]

Josh’s Organic Market - Hollywood, Florida
After our 1-nighter in the Gulf Coast of Florida, where we saw a memorable Leon Redbone concert and enjoyed a good meal of local fish and seafood, Noshette of the North and I drove back to the Atlantic coast along the famous “Alligator Alley”, where we saw plenty of gators […]