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Rye High: a recipe for the ultimate Canada Day punch from The Emerson’s Aja Sax
Canadian rye now rivals bourbon as bartenders’ brown booze of choice. Here, Aja Sax, the cocktail savant at The Emerson, shares...
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Prep School: Canoe’s Anthony Walsh on three ways to spike savoury dishes with sweet maple syrup
Toronto chefs are using Canada’s liquid gold in cocktails, on sandwiches and even on tacos. Here, Canoe chef Anthony Walsh...
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Recipe: hot crab dip from Geoff Hopgood of Hopgood’s Foodliner
PREP TIME: 15 minutes BAKE TIME: 15 minutes Serves 8 to 12 HOT CRAB DIP 2 cups crab meat, canned or lumped ½ lemon 12 oz cream...
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Recipe: blackberry-yuzu ice pops from Janet Dimond of Augie’s Gourmet
PREP TIME: 10 minutes FREEZING TIME: overnight Serves 9 to 10 BLACKBERRY-YUZU ICE POPS ¾ cup cane sugar 1 lemon 2 limes 8 cups...
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Recipe: foolproof eggs Benny from One’s Mark McEwan
PREP TIME: 35 minutes COOK TIME: 20 minutes Serves 4 GASTRIQUE ¼ cup dry white wine 2 tbsp red wine vinegar ½ shallot, diced 1...
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Recipe: bison pemmican from Keriwa chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe
PREP TIME: 30 minutes REFRIGERATION: 5 days BRAISE TIME: 2 to 4 hours COOK TIME: 1 hour Serves 4 to 8 BISON PEMMICAN 1 bison or...
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Recipe: chewy chocolate chip cookies from Delica’s Devin Connell
PREP TIME: 10 minutes BAKE TIME: 10 minutes Makes 18 large cookies CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES 1 cup each unsalted butter and almond...
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Prep School: Café Belong chef Brad Long on what to make of garlic scapes
Café Belong chef Brad Long was cooking with these curly stems back when they were considered compost. Here, he offers three ways...
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Recipe: the earthy and elegant chicken in hay from locavore bistro Edulis
PREP TIME: 20 minutes BAKE TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes Serves 4 CHICKEN BAKED IN HAY 3½-lb whole chicken 2 large handfuls alfalfa...
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Recipe: gluten-free pumpkin muffins at Bunner’s that taste every bit as good as the butter-jacked counterparts
PREP TIME: 15 minutes BAKE TIME: 18 minutes Serves 12 PUMPKIN MUFFINS 1¾ cup Bob’s Red Mill all-purpose gluten-free flour 1¼...
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Prep School: Chef Anthony Rose dishes on three ways to prepare nostalgia-inducing smoked whitefish
Smoked whitefish is all over the midday menu at the Summerhill diner Rose and Sons. Here, Rose talks about why he loves it, and...
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Recipe: cochinita pibil tacos from La Carnita
PREP TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 32 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 4 hours Serves 5 to 10 COCHINITA PIBIL TACOS 100 g achiote paste 10...
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Recipe: Sriracha-tinged devilled eggs from former Yours Truly chef Jeff Claudio
PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 10 minutes Serves 24 DEVILLED EGGS 12 eggs Handful of ice cubes 2 tbsp each Japanese Kewpie...
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Recipe: Barque’s belt-busting flapjack tower of pulled barbecue duck meat, chèvre and blueberry compote
PREP TIME: 35 minutes COOK TIME: 39 minutes SMOKE TIME: 12 hours or ROAST TIME: 2 hours Serves 4 DUCK PANCAKES 2 whole duck legs...
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Recipe: Lucien Gaudin, a citrusy cocktail from the Toronto Temperance Society
PREP TIME: 2 minutes Serves 1 LUCIEN GAUDIN 1 oz gin, preferably Plymouth ½ oz Campari ½ oz dry vermouth ½ oz Cointreau Stir...
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Recipe: dense, moist banana bread pudding from The Westerly
PREP TIME: 15 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 3 hours BAKE TIME: 50 minutes Serves 8 to 12 BANANA BREAD PUDDING Butter for greasing ½...
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Recipe: Cava’s killer octopus, chicken and clam paella
PREP TIME: 25 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 45 minutes Serves 4 to 6 SOFRITO ¼ cup olive oil 1 large white onion, chopped 2 cloves...
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Recipe: Parsley root soup from The Grove, an earthy and richly textured starter
PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 25 minutes Serves 4 SOUP 2 tbsp olive oil 3½ lb parsley roots, peeled and diced 3 celery...
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Recipe: Pear chutney from Stasis, a sweet and garlicky accompaniment for charcuterie and cheese
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes Makes 3 250-mL jars PEAR CHUTNEY 2 garlic heads 1 tsp canola oil 6 large Bosc...
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Recipe: Normandier, a finely tuned Calvados cocktail from GwaiLo’s Christina Kuypers
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 30 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 2 days Serves 1 SPICED APPLE SHRUB 2 cups water 2 cinnamon sticks...
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Recipe: Perfect plum tart from Joanne Yolles of Scaramouche and Pangaea fame
PREP TIME: 25 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 2 hours 20 minutes Serves 8 PLUM TART PASTRY 6 tbsp unsalted butter, at room temperature...
Toronto Life Cookbook: nine scrumptious spins on the sugar cookie
Elyse Wahle of Sullivan and Bleeker Baking Co. shares her foolproof recipe for the classic baked good, plus an assortment of...
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Toronto Life Cookbook: Queen Margherita Pizza co-owner John Chetti shares his 10 favourite pizza toppings
See all ten toppings » PREP TIME: 3 hours | COOK TIME: 20 minutes THE ULTIMATE PIZZA DOUGH 2 tbsp fresh yeast 1 cup lukewarm...
Toronto Life Cookbook: Top Chef Canada champ Carl Heinrich’s top 10 ideas for how to dress up a burger
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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