Over lunch at Dr. Vicki Belo’s home, the conversation drifted from her favorite cakes to kitchen layout to her daughter Scarlet and my son Diego, to prescriptions for my sunspots and the best diet to boost beauty.
Oily fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids, such as salmon, mackerel, herring, lake trout, sardines or albacore tuna, are particularly beneficial.
There are rows of gleaming sushi topped with salmon and tamago, tightly shut baby clams chilled on miniature plates beside fresh fillets of parrot fish and talakitok, fat white shrimps, and translucent slices of squid.
In her television shows “Fresh,” “Sugar” and most recently “Bake,” Canadian chef Anna Olson demonstrates how to make both simple and complex dishes: cinnamon buns, for instance, or French meringue and the Canadian holiday beef pie called tourtiere.