A Taste of The World Walks

01/04/2020

If you’re in Toronto, try to catch this fantastic exhibit that’ll be on until January 19th, 2020 at the Gardiner Museum !

Food and dining were transformed in Europe during the age of Enlightenment. These profound changes continue to resonate today. What many of us eat, the way food is prepared, and how we dine continues to be influenced by radical changes that occurred in France between 1650 and the French Revolution i...

12/12/2019

For food history buffs.... Enjoy!

With the holidays fast approaching, two interns at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University's Rubenstein Library turned to the center’s collection of vintage advertising cookbooks for inspiration.

11/26/2019

An insightful article by

I’ve been an active member of Tourism Toronto from 1994-2004, and witnessed firsthand, the beauty and power of three levels of government acknowledging tourism’s value and worth, the financial support that stem from the perceived value, and then sad decline with subsequent cutbacks, leading to skeletal staffing.

Hope that we see changes in 2020 and into the future!

A new study shows the true power of tourism in Toronto. As anyone who checks in on this site now and then can attest, I’m a big believer in tourism as an economic driver, and it’s a con…

10/29/2019

Halloween falls right in the traditional cabbage and kale harvest season.

The leafy green once foretold the future.

09/05/2019

Who can still recall getting a whiff of durian’s aroma (if you love it)/stench (if you hate it) when the wind switches as we approach one of our fav Asian grocery stores along our Toronto’s Second Chinatown Food Tours? Definitely no fence sitters, each and every occasion! 😋 😷 🤤 🤮😋

How a clever Malaysian farmer has made a fortune off the durian, the pungent tropical fruit that attracts equal parts adoration and revulsion.

09/05/2019

Cassava or Yucca anyone? Countless times along our Kensington Food Roots Tours, we would stop by Caribbean Corner and handle this waxy tuber. Folks might recall, my tongue-in-cheek quips regarding one of Agatha Christie’s favourite method of murdering an unsuspecting person. Killer dish takes a whole new meaning here....

Cassava is very dangerous if not prepared properly, so how did people develop and share that knowledge?

08/28/2019

End of an era. Toronto’s second Chinatown Food History is slipping away at an accelerating rate...,.

I still a much cherished architectural piece from Bright Pearl Restaurant thanks to owner of Moonbean Coffee Company .... I guess it’s time, once again, to grab my iPhone and dash over, to snap Archival photos. Who would like to go for a Last Dim Sum ?

John Higgins Christine Walker Patricia Wong Scott Greenwood Anita Stewart Sarah B Hood Sally Dutru Kelly Len Senater Karen Bekker Karim Bhaloo Helly Flowers Lori Gibson Angela Wood

The developer behind a proposal for a 13-storey mixed-use building hopes the longtime dim sum restaurant will return as a tenant in the future development.

06/27/2019

All aboard! Adieu Toronto and here we come Montreal on VIA Rail Canada !

No private/bespoke tours/chocolate tastings in Toronto from today, June 27th to July 2nd, 2019 as I’m off for wee bit of R&R, belated wedding anniversary and birthday celebrations with hubby over the Canada Day long weekend.