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How the Good Food Box got me out of my cooking slump
FoodShare Toronto s delivery of fresh produce has made eating fun and interesting, while helping out the city s nutritionally vulnerable By Glenn Sumi
Every week a box of fresh produce arrives to challenge your tastebuds and cooking skills.
Near the end of January, I signed up for FoodShare Toronto’s weekly Good Food Produce Box. It was 10 months into the pandemic, and frankly I was tired of cycling through the same 10 to 12 recipes using the same boring ingredients – call it quarantine cooking fatigue.
Plus, the city was in second lockdown, and I felt less enthusiastic about trekking out to grocery stores in the dead of winter. I figured I would try out the box, see if I liked it, and if I wasn’t happy I would cancel.
Seven Toronto food trends from 2020 we want to stick around
It was an overall terrible year for restaurants and bars, but the COVID crisis also spurred creativity By Kelsey Adams
Samuel Engelking
To say 2020 was tough for Toronto’s restaurant and hospitality industry would be a vast understatement.
Running a restaurant or a bar in good times involves thin margins, uncanny adaptiveness and flexibility and this year stretched owners and staff to their absolute limit.
We lost many favourite spots that were integral to their neighbourhoods. Community hubs with storied local histories like Furama Bakery in Chinatown, Apiecalypse Now! in Koreatown and Cold Tea in Kensington Market, will be sorely missed.
The best gift ideas for your food-obsessed BFF (or yourself!) content from Globe Content Studio Published December 10, 2020 Updated December 10, 2020
Holiday shopping for the foodie in your life can be tricky business. You never know what they already have in their pantry, or what high-tech kitchen tools they’ve had their eyes on all year long. But finding something unique maybe even bespoke or locally-made! is a sure-fire way to impress them. So, we asked food experts for some shopping advice. Here’s what they said.
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For acclaimed foodie Pay Chen, Christmas is a chance to get her friends and family hooked on the same delicious products she’s been loving all year long. The product at the top of her list right now is Wabanaki maple syrup, a delicious Canadian staple made on Tobique First Nation.