The Art & Politics Of Eating with artist / filmmaker Zev Robinson – Part 1
This week I sit down with Anglo/Canadian painter/artist/filmmaker Zev Robinson for a chat about...
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Tag: Locavore
Bumpercrop’s Queens of Canning
What would you do with 600 pounds of onions? If it’s the end of the summer and you’re Joanna Sable and Lisa Taerk, you get canning. The best friends “since forever” formed Bumpercrop last year in the belief that they could deliver the freshest, most in season taste of Ontario veggies all year round using grandmotherly methods and Sable’s Cordon Bleu-trained chef background to Ontario’s epicurean set.
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Healthy Butcher Farm Trip 2011 Sunday, Sept 11
We believe it is important to see where your food comes from and to know who is producing that food. We’re proud of our farmers and the excellent job they continue to do. So proud in fact that we thought we’d introduce you to them and have them show you their pride and joy, the animals they raise.
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Localᶟ Jamie Kennedy Kitchens + Slow Food PEC + Grange Winery Chicken BBQ
A Good Ole County Chicken BBQ with The Grange, Jamie Kennedy and Slow Food Prince Edward County, Sunday, September 11, 1-4pm.
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Toronto Chef Jamie Kennedy Awarded Order Of Canada
Just before the turn of the year Good Food Revolution were delighted to hear that Toronto Chef Jamie Kennedy had been awarded the prestigious Order of Canada. We caught up with him at his busy Gilead Café where he gave us a personal account of his feelings upon being the first recipient of the Order in his particular field.
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Culinarium’s Kathleen Mackintosh Offers a Share in Her Dream
Culinarium is “Ontario’s locavore store”. Everything in the shop Kathleen Mackintosh opened in 2008 at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton in mid-town Toronto is sourced from Ontario, and produced in an ethical and environmentally responsible way.
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Just Opened: Hub Coffee House and Locavorium
The room, like the kitchen, strives—and succeeds—to make an impact on patrons without actually making an impact on the environment. The collection of reclaimed woods, furniture, and fireplace mantle gives the space a comfortable and low-key feel. Two rows of worn antique metal trays of various shapes and sizes decorate one wall, a mirror another. A long Victorian-esque yellow couch sits at the open window, facing Shaw Street, and runs floor to ceiling, perpendicular to another wall of window on the north side. Hello, sunlight.
Read MoreSarah Elton’s Locavore
by Malcolm Jolley Every season has its big book, and the big one in the Canadian food writing world this year is shaping up to be Sarah Elton’s Locavore. Elton writes about the local food scene for the Globe and Mail and...
Read More2010 Trends and Predictions
by Jamie Drummond and Malcolm Jolley What will happen gastronomically in 2010? Hard to say, but it seems very likely that interest will continue to grow in the farm-to-fork movement, both at the retail and restaurant levels....
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