Perhaps the most ambitious anti-restaurant yet, Californian chef Jim Denevan’s travelling foodie troupe—dubbed Outstanding in the Field—puts a new twist on the 100-mile diet. The group tramps the countryside, bringing their table to farms near and far in—wait for it—a massive red bus from 1953. The idea is to honour local roots by partaking of their bounty “between soil and sky.” This summer, the into-the-wild-style project will make its inaugural pilgrimage to Toronto’s great outdoors at Dingo Farms. Read the rest of this entry »
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Toronto sewage is farm-bound, meat is stolen, Hillary Duff is pro-lunch
Soup: Get some, get better (Photo by Robert Couse-Baker)
• Spurred by research supported by the American College of Chest Physicians regarding the health benefits of soup, chef Bonnie Stern offers three recipes, just in time for the end of flu season. They don’t call it “Jewish penicillin” for nothing. [National Post]
• School board studies show that 68 per cent of students at north Toronto’s Emery Collegiate don’t eat breakfast and 54 per cent don’t eat lunch. The Toronto District School Board is trying to change that, with a little help from Hillary Duff. [National Post]
• A truck full of meat stolen from a Paris, Ontario, business was recently found in Toronto, and it looks like this was not a one-off robbery. Another vehicle was nabbed from the same business on Sunday—this time carrying $80,000 in frozen meat. [CD989fm]
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The pre-heat is on: start the countdown to Gordon Ramsay’s Toronto restaurant
Gordon Ramsay yuks it up on The Hour (Photo by Brian Corcoran, 2009)
He came, he saw, he plans to conquer. Yesterday evening on CBC’s The Hour, Gordon Ramsay confirmed rumours that he will open a restaurant in Toronto. While the chef is reluctant to divulge details—he’s still in the planning stages—he says that he is definitely looking to expand his culinary kingdom north. Ramsay reports that he’s already scouted two sites in town for his first Canadian location. The date of the opening is still unclear, but it looks like the place will be 12 to 18 months in the making. Why so long? With satellite operations all over the world, Ramsay wants a real hand in this one. “We want to invest directly,” he explained, rather than work remotely. “I want to do it properly.”
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Raw milk on trial, Loblaws infestation, a match made at Starfish
The front door of Dupont Loblaws is "closed" (Image: blogTO)
• The green “Pass” notices from Toronto Public Health are so ubiquitous, they barely even register anymore. But they certainly make the blood red “Closed” version all the more terrifying-especially when it’s on the door at the local Loblaws. The Dupont location is apparently infested with mice. [blogTO]
