With bread flown in from Paris, this Yorkville institution creates authentic French tartines that are worth the $15 price tag
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Sarah Palin invokes God while defending meat eating, Timothy’s World Coffee sold, the $1-million cow
Famed meat lover Sarah Palin (Photo by Roger H. Goun)
• Sarah Palin takes aim at vegetarians in her highly anticipated memoir, Going Rogue. The moose-hunting former governor’s justification for being a meat eater: “If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?” Perhaps Palin should present her infallible logic to Hillary Clinton over carnivorous scones when the two meet for coffee. [Examiner]
• Paris no longer reigns supreme as the Michelin star capital of the world. With 11 three-star restaurants, Tokyo has inched ahead of the City of Light, which houses a meagre 10. Some observers say that comparing the two cities isn’t fair, as Tokyo is home to about 160,000 restaurants—about four times as many as Paris. [Bloomberg]
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Lululemon accused of not carrying bigger sizes, Prada wants men in skirts, not even Vogue editors can walk in Alexander McQueen’s shoes
Footwear from Alexander McQueen's spring/summer 2010 show
• While some are praising Toronto fashion week as a bona-fide fashion event, we hear the work’s not over yet. David Graham applauds the designers snagged by the Fashion Design Council of Canada but thinks next year, the FDCC needs more A-list talent. (Well, duh.) Graham wants to see Toronto phenoms Jeremy Laing, Lida Baday and Michael Kale in the tents, too. [Toronto Star]
• Does Lululemon cater only to skinny yogis? One shopper complains that a Lulu employee told her the shop would be discontinuing size 12 outfits because bigger sizes are not within the company’s target demographic of young, high-income, childless women. [National Post]
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Just Opened: Nadège Patisserie
Great white hope: Nadège brings Paris's cool minimalism to Queen West
Back in 2008, a for lease sign went up in the window of Trinity Bellwoods’ Art Photo Studio, making some West Queen Westers a little nervous. Would the prime location price out all the little guys? Apparently not. This spring, the studio’s decidedly dated green tiles were replaced by a white exterior and bright sign announcing the arrival of Nadège Patisserie—a high-end bakery and café that opened in early July.
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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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Bread is the thread
In Paris, even the dogs know good bread (Photo by Amy Paul)
The barn floors are in, and Union is feeling like a French tavern. There is something about the way Paris eats and feeds itself that I’ve always wanted to capture in a restaurant. I wanted to build something from what I saw in the taverns, tabacs and cafés I used to frequent; something that would lift me up and give me refuge. I saw them as fuelling stations: the warm lights, the mirrors, the marble bars, the vested waiters, the coffees, the demis and the wine—the bustle and the clatter of it all. Just being there makes you hungry.
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What are Toronto’s most checked-out library books?
What are Toronto’s most checked-out library books? And is it true that our city has one of the busiest systems in the world?—Jack Kuusemäe, Leaside
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At the corner of Queen and Pape, there’s an independent gas station called Stohos that advertises “biodiesel”
At the corner of Queen and Pape, there’s an independent gas station called Stohos that advertises “biodiesel.” What is it?—Basil McCrae, East York
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While travelling the subway, I often hear the announcement “99 Eglinton, 99 Eglinton” over the intercom
Dear Urban Decoder: While travelling the subway, I often hear the announcement “99 Eglinton, 99 Eglinton” over the intercom. I was once told this meant a passenger had jumped onto the tracks, but I certainly hope it isn’t true, considering how often I hear it. What’s the story?—Michelle Kelly, Bloor West Village
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Lately, the overhead electronic signs on the DVP have displayed such singsongy messages as “Check your gauges, control your rages,” and “Why fool with fate? Don’t tailgate”
Lately, the overhead electronic signs on the DVP have displayed such singsongy messages as “Check your gauges, control your rages,” and “Why fool with fate? Don’t tailgate.” What poetic soul produced these highway epistles?—J. Kelly O’Connor, Agincourt
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