This Sunday, molecular gastronomy founder Hervé This, Modernist Cuisine co-author Maxime Bilet (the 6 volume, $500 book set), and McGill Science and Society Professor Joe Schwarcz will be speaking at McGill's Food Studies 25th Anniversary Symposium at the MacDonald campus. It's free for McGill students, but for all others it's $20. Unless you win yourself some tickets.

Skip the pad thai in favour of Kai Himmaparn with fresh orange slices and sweet cashews and Panang Kai peanut and coconut milk curry at this MSG-free Thai restaurant in Montreal.

No, you probably can't get beer at the Healthy Eating and Green Living Expo, but this year St. Patrick's Day weekend falls on top of the three day event at the Palais des Congrès and metaphorically squishes it like a bug with its blood sausage, lamb stew soda bread, grilled tomatoes, and Guinness-bloated breakfasts. But the expo is fighting back with super(hero) foods chia, hemp, goji berries, and pre- and pro-biotics. Also this week, a job opening for a green-thumbed animateur/trice. More info after the jump.

The Montreal Highlights Festival wrapped up last month, which means that after 11 days of treating my body both well (in terms of delicious things) and less well (in terms of food indulgences), I'm eating like a normal person again and savouring the memories. Here are my Montreal Festival en Lumière awards.

A round-up of Pisco sour-making competitions, free bubbly, cooking classes, potlucks, and markets.`

Don't come to Tasca expecting Festival en Lumiere gourmet flash (bone marrow this, fois gras that). Instead the week-long $12.95 three-course lunch special is the best deal in town and features succulent grilled calamari, clams with sausage, and a generous cup of chocolate mousse.