Author: Ola Mazzuca
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Ritual & Revival: Preserving heavy metal, one jar at a time
Renee Trotier is stirring a pot in the culinary world. In it, she combines freshly picked plums, essence of lavender and drops of gin to create a beautiful deep purple concoction. In a few hours, it will be ready to go with your favourite crackers and cheese, on toast, or with dessert. But don’t forget…
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Blasphemous Meals #11: Winter’s Wrath
Words and photos by Ola Mazzuca Happy New Year skids! I’m back with the 11th edition of Blasphemous Meals, delving into three dishes that are hotter than hell, perfect for frigid weather and snow-covered, kvlt landscape – straight outta Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook by Annick Giroux, via Bazillion Points. Spin some vinyl,…
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Blasphemous Meals #10 – Corpus Curry
Here I am at the tenth installment of Blasphemous Meals! I am nearly halfway through Bazillion Points’ Hellbent For Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook by Annick Giroux, and it’s been such an incredible journey. My confidence in cooking has grown significantly since I first attempted Proto Metal Lamb Shanks Braised in Burgundy by Warpig’s Dana…
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Kataklysm guitarist Jean-Francois Dagenais craves culture on the road
It’s 16 degrees Celsius in Dallas, Texas and steaks are sizzling on a grill in a shaded backyard patio. They’re being cooked medium rare with precision to perfection, by Jean-François Dagenais, guitarist of Kataklysm. It’s below zero in Toronto, the first day of spring, and many metalheads are cooking beef, too – the kind you…
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Anvil: No longer bottom feeders with success that’s well deserved
“This is a mutual strength for Kudlow and Reiner, who are sons of Holocaust survivors. Kudlow believes that “no matter how much money you make, there is never a means to an end” as it is not something one can derive satisfaction from. Being thrown into a heavy metal abyss in the 80s without a…