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Cooking in Italy It’s been a while since we’ve been on a holiday beyond Canadian borders, but there are a few spots I have on a “life list” and with the hope of one day actually getting there. As a means of tracking research on foodie vacays I’m collecting URLs — see the links to [...]

Tek’s Seafood 434 Cassells Street North Bay, Ontario 705.472.2121 I’ve been eating halibut and chips here with my family for more than 30 years and I try to go back every summer, as I did this past July. The place reminds you of an east coast seafood restaurant with a touch of Greek taverna thrown [...]

Purple Rice Pan Asian cuisine 4907 Yonge Street N, North York, Ontario 416.894.8028 I used to love going here with my friends from 25 Sheppard. Try the Pineapple Rice, or the General Tao Chicken or Fresh Mango Roll. Many vegetarian and seafood dishes. Ginger tea is lovely with lunch. A great place for a fast [...]

Fressen 478 Queen St. West Toronto, Ontario 416.504.5127 “The Urban Herbivore” www.fressenrestaurant.com I’m not a vegetarian, and certainly not vegan (not that there’s anything wrong with that…) but so many of my friends are and I find myself at veg-head restaurants quite frequently. Don’t get me wrong, I could easily be a veggie, but meat [...]

Tabule Restaurant 2009 Yonge Street (between Eglinton & Davisville on the east side of Yonge) Toronto, ON 416-483-3747 Middle Eastern fare. Must have: The eggplant appetizer (is it fried or broiled??) with garlic and lemon…the most amazing eggplant you will ever have. Falafel is fabulous; lebanese cream cheese a must as is the limeade! Mains [...]

Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog By John Grogan A summer indulgence. New York Times No. 1 best-seller…I had my doubts, then I read it and cried, and cried…..took me a good couple of hours to finish the last few chapters of this puppy’s life … A great story for [...]

If you enjoyed The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant…you’ll probably also enjoy: The Canaan Trilogy By Marek Halter Sarah: A Novel Lilah: A Novel Zipporah, Wife of Moses: A Novel A gifted story-teller, Halter takes you back to a time when women’s stories were rarely considered important beyond the village they lived in, let alone [...]

David Remnick’s Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker If you love literature, love history, or just want to experience a modern master of observation, research and use of simple language at work, consider Remnick’s book. In this collection you can feast on his take on modern historial figures such as Tony Blair, Al Gore, Philip [...]

For too long now the heat has been on to start a blog. Blog shmog, I said. All that personal self-interest and opinion thrown up on the Internet. But of late I’ve discovered blogs that aim to provoke and entertain. Of course there is the big question of blogs as marketing tools or, to the [...]