What's your most memorable meal?
Ian Brown asked people from all over the country to share the meal they remember
Banff
Welcome to Banff, home of service with a vacant stare
Come for the postcard scenery, stay for the interminable wait times
Winnipeg
A supporting cast
The gallivanting gourmet visits a Winnipeg friend's cabin to fish, and hooks a few insights into middle-aged love and friendship
Bare Oaks
Naked lunch – and naked breakfast
What’s it like to dine au naturel at an Ontario nudist resort? Extremely distracting
The First Bite
Eating to stay, truly, alive
A cross-Canada culinary journey begins with one meal that offered the joys (and annoyances) of individuality and another that was about social immersion
Your Suggestions
Where should Ian eat next?
Know somewhere that he just can't miss? Or maybe you want to invite him to dinner?
On the road
If Canada must have a national dish, wild salmon it is
After pigging out from sea to sea, Ian Brown takes stock: Is there a Canadian cuisine? Is food just an excuse to take pleasure together?
A day without lobster
Crossing the country to forage on the East Coast, Ian Brown refuses to fall prey to the seafood stereotype, only to find the alternative can be just as risky
Serious about sausage in Saskatchewan
He left the Prairies weeks ago, but Ian Brown can't forget his stuffed potato nor his talk with one Mennonite butcher
Green all day, fried all night
In his continuing gastro-saga, Ian Brown reaches the West Coast to tell a tale of two markets
Tell me, were you really Miss Grey Cup?
A surprising reunion and an unforgettable welcome create a taste for Alberta's new local-food fashion
Brown takes a breather
Ian Brown stops in Banff and reflects his culinary journey and the perfect hamburger
Mushroom-gathering isn't just a walk in the woods
When the orange chanterelles are up, they look like fire spreading across cream. The Globe's hungry traveller tracks the wild luxury to its forest home in Saskatchewan
The hunger drive: From Winnipeg to Saskatoon
Tasting brilliant Italian in Winnipeg, zesty pineapple-plus pie in Margaret Laurence country, and martinis and bittersweet loneliness in Saskatoon
The insatiable longing in Northern Ontario
Food people here long to bring pleasure to others. Less often, they think about making a living as well
Pancakes at the Hoito, where 'thin' is a misnomer
You might want to evoke deeply personal and Proustian memories or your childhood. You may want to dive into a soft mesh of morning satisfaction that will hold you until dinner--the health rationale. Whatever your motivation, I recommend the thin Finnish pancakes in Thunder Bay.
A food fight to the bitter end
Of the most ferocious head-to-head restaurant rivalry in Ontario, this can be said: the pogo at Larry’s is truly awesome
Chicken wings - 102 flavours - and a waitress named Jasmine
I cannot say I was looking forward to the experience. You can get tired of eating.
Lessons in the economics of strawberries and hard work
Gerald Lauszus should have been in the movies - an impossibly handsome guy, like something out of Steinbeck
My sweet tooth is satisfied - for the next six years
Only in Thunder Bay, you say. Not a pity.
The staying power of bannock
Let me say how far bakers have come. Progress is not an illusion.
A highway, a truck stop and the bonds of breakfast
As I stop for gas along highway 17, I share a meal with a refreshingly uncomplicated family. Talking about food makes people open up
Gone fishing
A bunch of Wisconsin natives stop to cram groceries into the back of their SUV, on their way to experience fishing in Northern Ontario
