Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

Canada is a big part of my life.

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.