Mixologists sound off on best places to stargaze
STAR SPOTTING: They say the best place for star sightings during the Toronto International Film Festival is local downtown bars.
View ArticleA to Z on organics
National Organic Week in Canada starts this Saturday - and it's considered one of the largest, annual celebrations of organic food across the nation. Organic represents not only a vibrant alternative...
View ArticleCanning makes a comeback
When I was a kid growing up in Vancouver, my mom canned. Everybody’s mom that I knew canned. It’s what moms did back in the 1960s. They canned fruit, made jams and “put up” pickles. It was a great way...
View ArticleCelebrate with BlossomPure
This wonderful west-end food shop is celebrating a special 15th anniversary on Saturday — and owner Fahim Alwan and his team are throwing a party to celebrate! BlossomPure Organic specializes in...
View ArticleOnce-slice-or-two pizza debate misses the point, say diet experts
An Orléans Catholic school is getting some spicy responses – from “what nonsense” to “just dumb” and “none of their business” – for limiting kids to a single slice at weekly fundraiser pizza...
View ArticleThe grateful bread: Nothing stale about these recipes
I have this thing about throwing out stale bread - I can't. I'm sure it's a holdover from growing up in a tight-knit family where food was respected and reinvented into different dishes (especially...
View ArticleGordon Ramsay helps launch pop-up Toronto eatery, credit card aimed at...
Celebrity chef, cookbook author and TV star Gordon Ramsay popped into Toronto on Tuesday to celebrate the opening of Cobalt Social — a unique pop-up restaurant in Kensington Market that’s open until...
View ArticleLiquid cheer: Beer drinking really does make people happy
Drinking beer makes people happy.
View ArticleNational Taco Day: Get your hands on this humble wrap
Is coming up this Wednesday, Oct. 4, and it's one of the most popular dishes in North America. Last year, Americans ate more than 4.5 billion tacos! According to Nationaltacoday.com, that's the...
View ArticleCricket spaghetti? Bangkok bistro serves up bug dishes
BANGKOK — Ants and beetles in the kitchen? Normally that’d close down a restaurant immediately, but for a unique eatery in Bangkok, bugs in the beef ragu and pests in the pesto are the business plan.
View Article4 recipes to gobble up this Thanksgiving
Canada's Thanksgiving has suddenly appeared on the horizon! And yet - many of us are still in a summer state of mind.
View ArticleStay Summer Fresh with handy snack bowls
SUMMER FRESH SENSATIONS: It may be fall but there’s nothing like a Summer Fresh Snack’n Go Salads to keep your energy going. These handy little snack bowls are made with superfood ingredients including...
View ArticleThanksgiving rookies: Hosting your first big dinner away from home
Stephanie Veniez knew her Thanksgiving dinner debut was a disaster when she saw the smoke.
View ArticleDiverse Generation Z giving restaurant industry plenty to chew on
When Teghann Taylor has dinner out with her friends, they often end up feasting on sushi.
View ArticleSlow Cooker's the way to go for fall comfort dishes
With cooler weather comes a calling for hearty comfort dishes. Stews and soups and all those good things. These are foods that take their time because the flavours need patience to come together. What...
View ArticleCouple cooks with passion
They say that a way to a person’s heart is through their belly. With Dario Tomaselli and Anita Heidema, it worked just as nicely the other way around.
View ArticleTim Hortons unveils with Buffalo sauce latte
It may be pumpkin spice season, but Tim Hortons is experimenting with a far more bizarre new latte flavour — Buffalo Sauce, in the latest move by restaurants to create buzz-worthy concoctions.
View ArticleA taste of Italy in the Junction [Photos]
A NOD TO NODO: Just recently my nephew, Andrew and his girlfriend, Cassandra, took me out for lunch, asking me to recommend a place.
View ArticleGreta Podleski's Yum & Yummer cookbook a delicious and nutritious delight
Greta Podleski and her equally delightful sister, Janet, are famous for having made the national bestselling cookbook Loonyspoons a a household name. Other fun and funny-named books followed, all with...
View ArticleJanes Pub Style Chicken Burgers, Popcorn Chicken recalled due to salmonella...
Breaded chicken products sold under the Janes brand name are being recalled due to possible contamination from salmonella.
View Article3 cookbooks for quick and easy food
What gives great comfort and pleasure? A good book. In this accelerated world we live in today - where everything is instantaneous and information is just an app away - nothing beats the glorious...
View ArticleNYC hotel bringing back $1,000 bagel
New Yorkers with a taste for an expensive city staple will have an opportunity to try the $1,000 bagel when it returns to the city next month.
View ArticleKFC only follows 11 people on Twitter and you won't believe who they are
KFC has always boasted about the secret 11 herbs and spices that go into its original recipe chicken.
View ArticleOrange is the new white? Unique amber wine creates buzz
BURDETT, N.Y. — The sloping vineyards of New York’s Finger Lakes region known for producing golden-hued rieslings and chardonnays also are offering a splash of orange wine.
View ArticlePass the pasta!
Nineteen young chefs. Five Michelin-starred celebrity chef judges. Zero second chances.
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