Biography
This blog began in 2004 when I was living in a small hamlet due south of Georgian Bay, Ontario and working as the head chef at an artist retreat centre. I got a lot of questions about how dishes were made, and what went into them to make them taste a certain way. I had such a fun time creating art in the kitchen with colourful palettes and nuances of flavours and then feeding a bunch of stark raving frustrated artists huge panoramic buffets, that I decided to keep track of what I was making and cooking. This is the birth of that idea; what it has evolved into since then is a reflection of my life: a wayward wandering exploration of words and ingredients and in the end combining the two, for better or worse.
After a dozen career paths, and even more geographic moves, I've come to appreciate, and crave, the simple things in life. Last August 2008, I moved up to the south shore of Georgian Bay with my faithful canine companion (he makes a few appearances throughout this website) and wrote about my food finds from Ontario's agricultural heartland. As of June, 2009, I've returned to Toronto. I live in a ravine with foxes and rabbits. The landscape has altered my pysche and I'm immersed in the ethnic embrace of the food culture in this urban environment. It's a new kind of exploration.
Postscript: Edible Tulip is the personal website of Daphne Randall and all original writing and photography is covered under a Creative Commons Copyright license.
