The Farmer’s Market returns for a 14th season with 16 organic food vendors, which is the same number found there during pre-pandemic times.

[Read more →]

An environmental case for less meat on the table By Terri Chu With the holidays behind us and some of us going vegetarian until we recover from the gluttony, it is a good time to reflect on the environmental and social impact of the meat on our table. As the environmental atrocities related to our […]

[Read more →]

Proposed hookah lounge category voted down   By Dilara Kurtaran Local shisha bar owners are scrambling to change their business model after city councillors voted 34 to three to ban shisha from Toronto’s lounges and restaurants starting in April 2016. Toronto is the latest city to ban shisha. Peterborough, Brantford, and Barrie are three of […]

[Read more →]

Summer’s over but they can still grow indoors In this reprint of an article from October 1997, landscape architect Bardi Vorster helps us identify which herbs we can bring indoors and enjoy long after the first frost. By Bardi Vorster The first task when you mention herbs is to narrow the field. The ones we […]

[Read more →]

Harbord Bakery marks 70 years By Annemarie Brissenden For Rafi Kosower, Roslyn Katz, and Susan Wisniewski, VE day will always be a little extra special. Because it was on May 8, 1945, that their parents, Albert and Goldie Kosower, bought “the little bakery next to the fish market [at] the corner of Harbord and Major […]

[Read more →]

Farmers’ market produce attracts shoppers from near and far By Axile Gerona The Bloor-Borden Farmers’ Market has returned to the Annex for an eighth season. It provides a complete sensory experience, for shoppers enjoy the vibrant colours and textures of produce as they enjoy music performed by a different musician each week. “The music has […]

[Read more →]

Simple, tasty, and healthy I try very hard to bring the right little seasonal gift to anyone I visit in their home for a BBQ, or summer gathering. Unless it is an assigned dish for a potluck or a BYOB, I am loath to arrive with yet another little package of shortbread cookies. No point […]

[Read more →]

How to spice up the kitchen this spring Nothing seemed more delicious to us as kids when we got in the door right after school on a cold day than hot buttered raisin bread toast lavishly sprinkled with cinnamon and white sugar with a cup of hot chocolate. In Mexico and Guatemala, Mayans make drinks […]

[Read more →]

Cheap, wholesome and supereasy By Susan Oppenheim How does it happen that an entire family and their friends become cookie people? That would be me, my two daughters, and a favourite tenant, just as an example. What is interesting is how very different we all are in our approaches to cookie making. I do kitchen-sink cookies, […]

[Read more →]

Use whatever you have in the pantry for crust By Susan Oppenheim Who didn’t grow up 50-odd years ago with something that was totally special, totally yummy, and very, very easy to make? Ask my mother, a daughter of an amazing baker, about her cooking skills, and she will make a joke. She admits openly […]

[Read more →]

New business owner turns trauma into dream fulfilled By Chantilly Post   Sugary Swirls, at 1087 Bathurst St., is the newest specialty bake shop to open in the Annex. If cotton candy, Ferrero Roche, or ice-cream sundae cupcakes don’t sound inviting then maybe the modern-vintage decor and fresh flowers will invite you inside to order […]

[Read more →]

The Annex and Harbord Village considered for expansion By Jessica Lemieux It’s early on a Tuesday but already the hot sun is casting long shadows from the greenhouse over the field. The earlier in the day the better and the more tender the herbs will be. That way they will look and smell great to […]

[Read more →]

By Susan Oppenheim I am a freezer girl and a packrat gourmand. I love the “hunt and gather “ and I live with a 24 hours Sobeys up the lane at Shaw and Dupont, a Loblaws three  blocks away at Christie and Dupont and a Fiesta Farms about 20 doors from my house.This week alone […]

[Read more →]