Gremolata

Life is always full of synchronicity and as soon as you become aware of it suddenly everything has links to various moments in your life. Take my dating life, each of the past 4 men that I've been in contact with (some solely on a correspondence level) have a single connection to my own life (and these are not people I met through friends of friends they are odd flutters of bytes in the atmosphere at large whose paths I simply crossed). One spent summer canoe tripping with my first year University boyfriend 17 years ago. One has siblings who are intricately connected to my current boss. One went to high school with my brother in law's cousin who lives in Montreal. And one, who sadly turned out to not be full of promise at all, lived exactly across the street from me last summer 8 months before we knew the other existed. Weird.

Gremolata is a web site hosted and run by Malcolm Jolly of Toronto. In another bizarre turn of events (let's call it the ol' six degrees of separation folly) when I ran into a friend 2 years ago at a supermarket across town after I'd been to my therapy appointment (I no longer go; said psychiatrist moved to Calgary darn her!) her fiance said "oh, you are interested in food - you should chat with my friend Malcolm". Well, I'd already been receiving his weekly Friday web log updates on my email. Then a year later, I had drinks with a woman who was recommended to me by the woman I was a chef for at the Artist's Retreat up in Dunedin and she said "Oh, I write for a website called Gremolata". Sigh. Is life really this predictable? Maybe only in the food world.

Anyway, aside from getting weekly updates from various American newsfeeds on their food stories, I also subscribe to Gremolata. It's fun, it's local and there's good tidbits to be had on cheese, wine, local eateries, etc. Check it out!