{"id":2451,"date":"2014-10-17T08:46:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2014-10-17T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:46:25","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e60-having-the-city-for-dinner-with-corey-mintz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E60: Having the City for Dinner with Corey Mintz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2452\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/coreymintz.jpg\" alt=\"coreymintz\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/coreymintz.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/coreymintz-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In Toronto&#8217;s Kensington Market, Colin Marshall talks to Corey Mintz, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/authors.mintz_corey.html\">the\u00a0<em>Toronto Star\u00a0<\/em>column &#8220;Fed&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0and the book <i>How to Host a Dinner Party<\/i>. They discuss what makes a dinner party a Torontonian dinner party; the city&#8217;s &#8220;uptight&#8221; reputation; how he bottomed out in his initial cooking career, winding up working the kitchen at a dinner theater; how he converted to writing and also found a way to take a friend&#8217;s advice that he &#8220;should host dinner parties for a living&#8221;; the time he made lunch for Ruth Reichl, and what his editor appreciated more about the blog post he wrote about it than the actual column he did; his dinner party with the disgraced head of the District of Toronto School Board, pre-disgrace; what it means when some like what you do and some dislike it for the same reasons; the art of mixing personalities at the table; why to recognize that &#8220;important people can be blowhards,&#8221; and indeed that blowhardiness often makes them important in the first place; how he keeps the smartphones in peoples&#8217; pockets; &#8220;Toronto&#8221; versus &#8220;Toronno&#8221;; how he came to regularly invite the city, whatever the pronunciation of its name, into his home for dinner; his food-paradise neighborhood of Kensington Market, which through accidents of history now exists &#8220;outside reality, a little bit&#8221;; his questioning of his Councillor at dinner about why the neighborhood doesn&#8217;t have trash cans, and what he learned from the attempt; how Torontonian multiculturalism translates into food; what took him into the secret VIP room of a suburban Nigerian restaurant; and whether he considers his dinner parties the revival of a lost art.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E60_Corey_Mintz.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Toronto&#8217;s Kensington Market, Colin Marshall talks to Corey Mintz, author of the\u00a0Toronto Star\u00a0column &#8220;Fed&#8221;\u00a0and the book How to Host a Dinner Party. 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