VIVRE POUR MANGER

Andrea is a freelance linguist, avid reader and mom with a passion for good food. She collects cookbooks and vegetarian recipes from all over the world. She lives in South Florida with her husband, two young children and the family chihuahuas. 

Ever since she made her first perogies, bob has enjoyed cooking. And eating. Despite this, bob was shocked to find that she could blissfully while away an entire weekend peeling, slicing, and canning fruit. More recently, she has moved into making her own yogurt (goat) and bread (whole wheat with flax seeds). It is only due to Toronto's raw milk embargo that bob has yet to venture into cheesemaking. Food is the perfect blend of science and creativity, with the added bonus of being able to eat our mistakes. 

Colin is a physicist trapped in the body of an engineer. His first job was in the kitchen at a country club. Colin grew up next to Buffalo, NY, so please don't tell him about chicken wings. He is a big fan of doing things from scratch. Sometimes this means fermenting beer in his basement, sometimes it means making ice cream in his kitchen and sometimes it means a building a salad from things he grew himself. Which is no mean feat when one lives in heart of the biggest city in Canada. 

Jessica is constantly planning her next meal and is only slightly embarrassed to admit it. She loves trying new recipes and recreating restaurant dishes at home. Though her friends and family consider her a cookie baker, she secretly hates baking cookies. Jessica works as a freelance translator and is based in Austin, Texas. 

Kristin studied computer engineering in Toronto where late night Chinese noodle soup and Sunday dim sum became comfort food. A fan of slow food and slow travel before she'd even heard the terms, Kristin cut her culinary teeth as a young au pair cooking for two particular Swiss children who didn't hesitate to tell her when something did not have any "goût". Now living in Berlin, Kristin is proud of her ability to put a good meal together from nothing, almost always has black bananas in her freezer, used her Swiss Army knife can opener as her can opener for 4 years and eats pasta with sauce far more often than she should admit. 

Mike lives and eats in London. He likes sex, loves cooking, and needs cheese. Mike prefers the words "gastronome" and "epicure" to the word "foodie," on the basis that in far too many instances a foodie is someone who can't/doesn't cook, but tends to get more than a little uppity about how great their taste is. Mike is working toward the noble goal of having a tax return of 50/50 comedy/mining -- like it was when he lived in Toronto. 

A relatively new transplant in New Orleans, I am ravenously finding my way through the extraordinary cuisine and culture here. My boyfriend Vann has been here 13 years (from deep in Alabama before that) and has been my guide and more often my chef along the way. We are happy to share our delights and hope others will enjoy as well. 

Peter is an aspiring bon vivant living in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. He returned there after close to a decade living in Toronto. Currently, he is a graduate student in business and works in communications and marketing. He prefers cooking with ratios instead of recipes and is taking advantage of the abundant fresh seafood in his current home. His favourite gastronomy book is M.F.K Fisher's The Art of Eating. 

Tiffany is a web developer with an electrical engineering degree living in Berlin. She was small-town raised and big-city ripened. When she was taught to peel potatoes at age six, it was with a paring knife. She once took a food theory course where she learned nothing about mother sauces that the Joy of Cooking hadn't already taught her. She has eaten bad fish twice, but that hasn't stopped her.