Love for food works as a recipe for Burnt toast

People can start magazines for many reasons, often because they love their subject. This seems to be the case with the little foodie quarterly called Burnt toast, published out of Ottawa. It's a family affair: Cindy Deachman is the Editor, publisher and usually the artist, Helen Deachman is copy editor and contributor, Bruce Deachman is "Crumbs editor) and writer, Connor Deachman is an artist and so on. Which is not to say that there are not other contributors. But clearly, it's a labour of love, a zine really, done in a family atmosphere and a lot of fun.

Of itself, the magazine says:

Burnt toast looks at the culture of food, what we eat. Aren't human beings awfully odd animals?

Burnt toast discovers what you can buy in Canada. There are interviews with food people. There are biological investigations. Editor/publisher, Cindy Deachman, gets together with friends to taste wine, port, cider, olive oil, Asian snacks, you name it. But there's also a look around the world. See what's been happening in the last little while. Burnt toast doesn't have all that many recipes I'm afraid.

A two-year subscription is $33; one year $17.

The magazine's content can best be exemplified by a feature planned for the forthcoming issue, fueled by a contest for the readers about foods that they only eat when they're alone. First prize is a little Paderno pot. Other content of recent issues includes a feature on purple plums, a green tea tasting and making your own gummy pizza.