My Place for Dinner

About Debbie

Debbie Diament is a menu consultant, author, cooking teacher and recipe developer. She brings years of experience and a lifelong passion to preparing and sharing the foods she loves. As a teacher, she develops a quick rapport with her students, and, with her hands-on approach, helps demystify even the most complex cuisines. She believes people learn best by doing.

Debbie teaches private and corporate group cooking classes in Toronto and surrounding area; in her home in Riverdale, at Miele's Designer Showroom, Give It A Stir, Dish Cooking Studio, Whole Foods and The Cook's Place in Toronto, the Loblaws Cooking Schools and Silver Springs Culinary Retreat near Collingwood. She has appeared on CITY TV, The Life Network, and WNetwork. She has also been featured on Tony's Aspler's web site and in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and Toronto Sun.

Her tastes range from Asian, Italian and French cuisines, to the Sephardic traditions of the Middle East and North Africa. These are among the cuisines she has learned from her travels.

Debbie's cookbook, My Place for Dinner, has sold out its second edition. She contributed her culinary and testing expertise to Madeleine Greey’s cookbook Get Fresh! (Macmillan 1999) and Pamela Steele's cookbook, Great Canadian Cakes (Prentice Hall Canada, 2002).

As a recipe tester and developer, Debbie is always looking for new ways to create, combine and complement the exotic and the familiar. Her low-fat muffin recipe was so good that it was snapped up by an international baking company! She believes that, when prepared properly and thoughtfully, there's no such thing as a mundane meal or unfulfilling food.

Debbie is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Cuisine Canada and the Women’s Culinary Network of Toronto.