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 goes into them, and why would you put that with that, and oh! vegetarian food isn't just boiled cabbage diarrhea inducing cardboard much afterall. I was thrilled to introduce local fare in a variety of ways to those first "guinea pigs" at the centre because they helped me to find my own rhythm in the kitchen and to develop a flair and an ease for cooking for 30. I have also worked in the wine business at Vintages LCBO head office so I know why a wine taster refers to a heady red as tasting like ash or bark or rotten cherries. I spent a year learning from the best - Claudius Fehr. It was a unique job in that my desk had no less than 15 bottles of vintage wine from small global producers every day. Not the easiest job with a hangover but someone had to do it.
Quite rightly after working in advertising, broadcasting, the restaurant/bar business, as a temp, as a freelance writer, at various corporations, and living in places like Moscow and Krakow, I've come to appreciate, and crave, the simple things in life. This website is an ode to the edible things I find curious enough to share.
Postscript: Edible Tulip is the personal website of Daphne Randall and all original writing and photography is covered under a Creative Commons Copyright license.
