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The last question of my Canada Day food quiz asked Times 91Ô­´´ readers to list what they thought were Canada’s top-five, best-known foods and email their selections to me.

The last place you want to be on a perfect summer day is in a hot kitchen, especially if you’re entertaining. Which is why the grill gets so much love this time of year. We grill burgers. We grill steaks. We grill chicken, fish, ribs and vegetables.

Like many of us, I was first exposed to the taste of matcha green tea without really any thought on my part: green-tea ice cream was the only dessert offered at our local Japanese restaurant, and since it was included in the price of the meal (even t

MIAMI — Bryan Voltaggio’s new cookbook may be titled Home, but these are not the breezy, 30-minute meals you might expect from a book named with an everyday ethos.

Canada Day is almost here, and that means it’s time for another edition of my annual food quiz. Give it a try and see how you do. Good luck, eh! You’ll find the answers to the quiz on the bottom of this page. 1.

Take three readily available ingredients on a camping trip, add some inventive Girl Scouts and watch them create something sweet to eat. That appears to be how s’mores were invented a century or so ago.

Strawberries and cream have long been a dreamy combination. But did you know that strawberries and cheese can also be splendidly combined? In this case, though, they are not served at the end of the meal for dessert.

Dear Eric: I often make beef or chicken stock from bones and carcasses. I then freeze it to pull it out later to make soup.

I recently visited a cooking school perfectly located to inspire students to reach gastronomic heights. To the south of it is a valley with vineyards and small farms growing everything from lavender to artichokes, and asparagus to heritage apples.

Dear Eric: When visiting Provence, we would visit markets where they sold sun-dried tomato spread that we would buy and spread on baguettes. It was so flavourful; I bought it every chance I got.