Posts by: David Ort
Hillebrand Winery
Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario
www.hillebrand.com Winemaker, Darryl Booker
Oliveira Vineyard Chardonnay
2008
$35
Available Online and at the Winery
I am admittedly a bit skeptical about the science of matching wine with food. This is probably because I don’t have a knack for [...]
Continue Reading → Coyote’s Run Estate Winery
St David’s, Ontario
www.coyotesrunwinery.com
Winemaker, David Sheppard Five Mile Blend >
$14.25 (195669)
Available at the Winery, LCBO
The pairing of wine with food–alternately referred to as either an art or science–has gone well beyond [...]
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Imagine spending your lunch break on the roof of your office building surrounded by dozens of heritage and heirloom tomato plants. The tenants at 124 Merton Street in mid-town Toronto are living this dream.
Continue Reading →In the tumultuous sea of (largely) mass-produced beer that BeerFest has become the Great Lakes Caskapalooza pavillon at the southeast corner of Bandshell Park was a calm harbour. Partnered with LifeExperiences.ca the good folks at Great Lakes had an impressive selection of their cask and…
Continue Reading →Thanks to the hard work of Allison Savage of Radishes and Rhubarb Ana Joanes’s documentary Fresh will be coming to Toronto’s Bloor Cinema on the 26th of August at 6:30PM. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Wayne Roberts and featuring [...]
Continue Reading →On July 29 the quad at the University of Toronto’s Hart House got a well-deserved break from the usual parade of wedding parties taking photos in favour of a tasting and barbeque to celebrate Ontario craft-brewed beer. I didn’t manage to hit all of the tasting stations but here is a run-down of some [...]
Continue Reading →July and August are the months when Toronto’s farmers’ markets come alive. We’re offered a truly broad spectrum of fruits and vegetables that go well beyond the herbs and spinach of May or the monotonous squash and onions of October. Following closely behind strawberries and peaches, cherries are my favourite seasonal, local fruit.
When we find our hands filled with summer’s bounty–this year earlier than usual in spring–our natural reaction seems to be to preserve it as jams or jellies or to bake with it, usually as pies, tarts, or cakes. Admittedly, the “we” who preserve or bake from scratch with fresh, seasonal produce is an [...]
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