EVENTS Longo’s Free Flicks 2010: Julie & Julia SIRIUS Stage at Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay East 8:45 PM free Harbourfront Centre welcomes back its popular outdoor Free Flicks film series. This year’s theme is food, presented in partnership with Longo’s, and these culinary-based films are sure the keep the public coming back for more. [...]
– July 7, 2010
EVENTS Kuumba York Quay Centre, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West free admission to most events Harbourfront Centre celebrates Black History Month with two weekends full of lively entertainment including music, dance, film, comedy, spoken word and literary events that support and celebrate innovative local and international artists from the African and Caribbean diaspora. Kuumba's [...]
– February 6, 2010
EVENTS Julialicious with Bonnie Stern Bonnie Stern School of Cooking, 6 Erskine Ave nue 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM $99 including taxes - 416-484-4810 If you loved the film Julie & Julia, you must have been inspired to head right home, don your pearls and prepare Julia Child’s Boeuf Bourguignon. After taking this delicious class [...]
– February 4, 2010
Here’s a round-up of the food & drink articles in Toronto’s papers today… National Post: Gina Mallet is disappointed when she arrives at C5 to find that the promised roast goose dinner is not available, but she's happy to make do with pheasant and foie gras. Margaret Swaine has no theme to her three wine [...]
– December 12, 2009
Here's what's cooking around town today... We don't do wheat - the growing trend for wheat-free products, whether you need them or not. [MacLean's] Cheap and cheerful - wine, like beer, is really just a "rental" situation, so if you can find some good stuff cheap, why the heck not? [Inside Toronto: Menumental] Julie Powell: [...]
– December 7, 2009
Here's what's cooking around town today... Two views on the demise of Gourmet, one pro one con. But I'm also compelled to digress and reply to a statement by Alexandra Gill: The Upper East Side ladies-who-lunch (or wannabes) are not a viable readership for a general-subscription magazine. Does anybody actually believe that Julia Child would [...]
– October 7, 2009
Juliana Neufeld is a illustrator, mixed media artist and painter living in Toronto. She was recently promoted as Element Skateboards' first ever Canadian Advocate, giving her the opportunity to design for the company worldwide as well as travel and promote her art abroad. Juliana's artwork was also recently featured in the television documentary "The Rawside [...]
– September 30, 2009
Here's what's cooking around Toronto today... So they made a movie about Julia Child - how about some other chefs and their stories? Consider Geoffrey Rush at Marco Pierre White, John Malkovich as Careme (I swoon!), even Seth Rogen in a film about Martin Picard. [National Post, The Appetizer] Elizabeth Baird eats her way through [...]
– August 12, 2009
Here’s a round-up of the food & drink articles in Toronto’s papers today… National Post: Gina Mallet makes it a trifecta for Union, following last week's positive reviews in the Star and Globe with a rave write-up of her own. Margaret Swaine recommends three recent Vintages wines that she rates at 90 or higher. Brian [...]
– August 8, 2009
Here's some of the tasty stuff from around town today... This week's release of Julie & Julia spawns a list of other "foodie" films with both high and low points. (Note - for a truly FABULOUS reason to thoroughly detest the word foodie, please to see Michael Ruhlman's recent post; "Foodies love to talk about [...]
– August 5, 2009
Here's some of the tasty stuff from around the city today... All those nifty anti-oxidants in tea? Are nullified when you add milk because of the milk proteins. So if you've been slurping back a cuppa or two with milk thinking you're being all healthy, turns out you're not. [National Post] How to tell when [...]
– July 28, 2009
Here's some of the tasty bits from around Toronto today... Nota Bene offers a dazzling (if slightly pricy) lunch. [Toronto Life] If you've never met Steven Davey, more's the pity, because he tells great stories of days gone by. Today he's got tips from his past in the TV biz, such as this one on [...]
– July 27, 2009
No, you're not mistaken, there was no What's Cooking column yesterday. The problem with doing a round-up based on the news of the day is that on slow news days, all you get is a donut. I've found a few for today though, and one or two that would have been lonely on the page [...]
– July 14, 2009
Here's some food for though for today... What we can tell from watching the Julie & Julia trailer; Meryl Streep rocks the world and half of the movie will be amazing. Amy Adams does a decent job playing the annoying author of the book, but as with the book, those sections make me want to [...]
– April 30, 2009
Here's some food for thought for today... The coffee wars have begun. McD's hope to edge out Tim's and the rest with a free coffee promotion, while commenters in this Star piece squabble over what chain makes the best and worst. Meanwhile, true coffee lovers will sit by smugly and sip a cup of organic, [...]
– April 21, 2009
While their commercial this year is rather odd, those looking for something to do this weekend shouldn't let that dissuade them from checking out the opening of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. As we noted last year, the Royal is packed with lots of fun stuff for foodies, from butter sculpture to rare pears to [...]
– November 7, 2008
The holidays are coming and over at Menumental, Eric Vellend has some easy tips on putting together a holiday cheese tray. At Spotlight Toronto, Mehreen says goodbye to the old King Palace as it's razed to make way for condos. At Eye, Bev Spritzer's Food Notebook is all about booze this week, and the local [...]
– November 26, 2007
