When Cherif Habib co-founded Dialogue, a virtual health care and wellness platform, in 2016, the concept of seeing a care provider on the other end of a screen was still a relative novelty. Thanks to three years of COVID, public health restrictions, and overloaded provincial health care systems careening well past burnout, telehealth is now … Read more
When André Leon Talley died last January at the age of 73, the jewel-encrusted, caftan-draped giant of fashion left behind a tremendous hoard of designer treasures, art and cultural artifacts. They have become his legacy of him, one who tells us a great deal about the man behind the legend he created. Earlier this month, … Read more
Chef Ben Heaton has a pristine resume, having completed stints at acclaimed eateries Globe Bistro, Colborne Lane, and ONE, and run his own restaurant, the Grove. His heart of him, however, hankered for the Française. He wanted to try cooking for a French boite — but without what he calls “stuffiness.” So, this summer, he … Read more
Toronto’s internationally lauded Red Sky Performance returns to the theater with the premiere of “Miigis: Underwater Panther,” a work inspired by a foundational Anishinaabe prophecy that Red Sky founder Sandra Laronde believes has never been brought to the stage before. The title refers to particular sea-snail shells, popularly known as cowrie shells, that apart from … Read more
There used to be a hotel in my hometown with a karaoke backroom that doubled as a strip bar on Friday nights. Every time my group of friends would go there to sing, this woman would get up on the tiny corner stage, close her eyes and belt out the Tammy Wynette anthem “DIVORCE,” leaning … Read more
For years, food writer Joanna Fox’s son was happy to eat just about anything. Then, one day, the three-year-old just… stopped. No potatoes. Not paste. No eggs. “I wondered if it was my cooking,” Fox says. “So I started to ask chef friends if they had the same experience with their kids, or the kids … Read more
Entomo Farms in Peterborough is noisy, but you can still hear crickets. They’re not pests the farm intends to whack out with pesticides—these orthoptera insects are its entire business, and, on any given day, around 100 million crickets call Entomo their home—at least until they end up on dinner plates. Entomo is one of the … Read more
From hamburger steak to a creamy sweet potato soup, the five recipes featured here are meal suggestions the whole family is sure to love. Check out what you’re having for dinner this week! Monday: Cream of Sweet Potato and Coconut Milk Soup The fall season means it’s soup season, and what could be better than … Read more
It’s mid-afternoon on a Wednesday and Gino Benevenga has been up since 5 am prebaking 167 pinsas at his restaurant, Venga Cucina, in the Junction. He stacks the flatbreads the size of small cutting boards on cooling racks before they go into the fridge. When the restaurant opens at 5 pm for dinner, toppings and … Read more
It might be time to think twice about a warm bowl of chicken soup. In an alert issued on Thursday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency recalled Tim Hortons chicken soup base sold up to Oct. 20. The alert, issued to hotels, restaurants and institutions, warned the soup base had been recalled due to “presence of … Read more
