A peach sundae is the big attraction at the midsummer Winona Peach Festival in southern Ontario.

I chat with Ryan Brooks at Brooks' House of Bar-B-Q - the hugely popular restaurant in Oneonta, New York. They have been dishing out their delicious version of Cornell barbecued chicken for more than 50 years.

I chew the fat with owner Chris Corrigan at his vintage tavern turned eatery, the Lancaster Smokehouse, about the best way to barbecue ribs and his experience judging competitions in the southern US. His large restaurant in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada is always packed due to the delicious food.

After a delicious lunch at Rochelle Canteen, the East London restaurant co-owned by British chef Margot Henderson, I chew the fat with her in the kitchen of the flat she shares with her celebrity chef husband Fergus and their three children.

Two underdog vegetables, Brussels sprouts and parsnips, get a bad rap mostly because they have been victims of overcooking. My friend Mairlyn Smith and I rush to their defence with recipes and cooking tips that bring out the best in these wrongly-maligned foods.

Kerstin Rodgers aka Ms Marmite Lover - queen of London's underground restaurants - chats with me in her kitchen in Kilburn, North London. Topics du jour: the Aga oven, homemade Marmite and women's relationship with food.

Toronto pastry chef Joanne Yolles and Marion Kane Food Sleuth® discuss apple desserts in general and that delicious French confection Tarte Tatin in particular.

In mid-June, 2013, I sleuthed the inaugural butter tart festival in Midland, Ontario, and chatted with the contest judges including artist Charlie Pachter, Midland’s mayor and police chief and the fest’s honourary Queen of Tarts. The winning tart, out of 80 entries, was baked by Nancy Dillen of Barrie.

"Where Chefs Eat" is a collection of 2500 places - from high-end restaurants to hot dog stands - recommended by 450 chefs from around the world. Its editor is British restaurant writer Joe Warwick.

In this podcast, I’m talking cookbooks: Why they’re so popular, why we hold them so dear and why I was so devastated when many cherished volumes from my 1,000-plus cookbook library went missing. I tell that story and speak with two people who know plenty about this subject: retired librarian Alison Sutherland and manager of The Cookbook Store in Toronto, Alison Fryer.