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It was Foodstock!
I was at the very first Canadian Chefs’ Congress last month. Its creator, Michael Stadtländer, is a chef, farmer, artist and...
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Toronto’s restaurant business: The good, the bad and the ugly
I met the nasty edge of the restaurant business the other day. I was at an auction where they sell off all the leftover crap from...
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The Last Post
Father’s Day was busy, moving house. Neither bantling materialized, though both sent a telephone message of encouragement. The...
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Ontario wine’s prime time
June has become the month for grand wine events in Ontario, timed to kick off the summer touring season. And this is sure to be a...
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Parties
There are parties you simply don’t want to miss, but then you do miss them and end up regretting it the rest of your life. Or at...
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Dram after dram
Please forgive the long silence but I have been awa’ in Scotland, exploring a number of my favourite whisky distilleries. It has...
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Calling all chefs
Last year, the inaugural Luminato festival of “arts and creativity” was a tremendous success. In a few short weeks, the...
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Cheers to Santé
The 10th annual Santé: Toronto International Wine Festival kicks off Monday, May 5, with a week-long tasting menu of winemaker...
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Gala gala
Last year, I had the pleasure of watching the culinary team at the Royal Ontario Museum bring the old building into the modern...
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Hog wild
Chalk one up for the nerds, the diehards, the people who stay to the bitter end of every party. At Pangaea, on Thursday, Michael...
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Also rans
It’s one of my personal rites of spring—handing out awards in the April issue of Toronto Life . Sometimes we pattern the event...
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Senses redux
Since Claudio Aprile left Senses in the fall of 2006, the restaurant has seemed to be treading water. It was always going to be...
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Canadian Culinary Championships: The Grand Finale
Three intensely competitive nights, three very distinct occasions. On Thursday evening, the Canadian Culinary Championship began...
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Busy like bee
Quelle week, as they say in France—though of course one would always rather be busy and active at this age than...
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Dim Sum
About 1,200 years ago, at a time when Anglo-Saxons were still tearing roasts of meat apart with their hands, a family called Zheng...
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The Mother of All Parties
This blog post, dear reader, is essentially an invitation. An invitation to a three-day gastronomical extravaganza being held on...
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Lives of the Rich and Famous
It was the most amazing wine tasting of Bordeaux I had ever heard of—and I wasn’t invited. Château Haut-Brion 1982, 1989 and...
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A.A. Gill’s new book
Spending the weekend in the shadow of the soaring peaks of Collingwood, checking out the local restaurant scene for a forthcoming...
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Fast Broken
I have been eating breakfast again—at least on those mornings when I wake up in Stratford: not because I’m hungry—far from...
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All That Glisters
Gold Medal Plates streaked across the finish line this week with events in Edmonton and Ottawa. Now we can resume normal...
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A Tale of Three Cities
This week was very largely taken up with the Gold Medal Plates travelling folderols—flitting off to Montreal on November 13, to...
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Stratford Bound
Woken yesterday morning at 6:45 a.m. by small black and white cat faces very close to mine, mewing for their...
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Coast to Coast
A huge treat this week was the world premiere of a feature-length movie, The Islands Project , written and directed by Michael...
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Cause and Effect
Thursday night saw the spectacular start of the 2007 Gold Medal Plates campaign with a sold-out crowd of over 600 guests at...
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Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
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Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative