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Culture
Recipe to Riches Reviewed, episode 6: Triple Nut Toffee
It’s time we took a moment to comment on the judges. While our panel frets over a mere weekly tasting, the show's judges face...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed, episode 5: Butter Chicken Lasagna
Last week, we were treated to a Grade A quasi-villain in Jackie Koh, but on last night’s episode, Recipe to Riches cooled down...
Culture
Recipe to Riches reveals season two judges (okay, they’re all the same) and contestants (they’re not)
President’s Choice reality show Recipe to Riches returns to Food Network Canada on October 17, and it looks like season two is...
Culture
Recipe to Riches picked up for a second season of thoroughly branded competitive cooking
Your favourite competitive cooking show—no, not that one—is back for a second season, according to the folks at Food Network...
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Food & Drink
TIFF Food on Film series pairs famous chefs with foodie movies
Food on Film, a new six-film series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, pairs culinary-themed films like Mostly Martha and Kings of Pastry...
Culture
Recipe to Riches: and the winner is...
The six remaining home cooks from across the country were all dressed in their Sunday best for the season finale of Recipe to...
Culture
Recipe to Riches: the final pitch
Today is the last day of voting for season one of the President’s Choice product development spectacular Recipe to Riches. The...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed: Episode 6, Kulfi Karma
Six episodes deep, it seems like the producers have finally started to give host Jesse Palmer a little more rope. This week, the...
Culture
Recipe to Riches Reviewed: Episode 5, The Smart Cookie
Last things first: at the end of this week’s episode (the sweet and savoury snacks challenge), the producers flashed a...
Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed: Episode 4, Bannock Hazelnut Pie
This week’s episode of Recipe to Riches featured a show first that also happens to be a show last: a Toronto contestant. It also...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches reveals judges (including Laura Calder) and contestants (including four from the GTA)
It seems there’s an insatiable appetite for competitive food shows (we certainly can’t get enough ). The latest offering is...
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The List: Ten things celebrity chef and author Laura Calder can’t live without
My favourite read I love the personal pieces at the back of The Spectator . Essays are my favourite form of writing because...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 6: horsing around
Last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada might have featured superstar New York chef Daniel Boulud , but the viewing audience...
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Food & Drink
McEwan tapped to be head judge on Top Chef Canada—plus, hilarious questions from the contestant application form
Not surprisingly, Food Network Canada tapped charismatic Toronto chef Mark McEwan ( Bymark , One ) to be the Canadian Colicchio on...
Food & Drink
Toronto writer David Sax wins James Beard Award
Local boy and Toronto Life contributor David Sax won a James Beard Award for his much-lauded book Save the Deli yesterday. He...
Food & Drink
Food Network’s answer to the demand for cheaper, edgier programming: Canadians
American kids don’t seem to connect with Paula Deen and Emeril, so the owners of the U.S. Food Network is getting hip with the...
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Food & Drink
TV chef Laura Calder moves to Toronto and wants to teach us to pour a great glass of water
The Food Network’s effervescent face of modern French fare, Laura Calder , is bringing her continental expertise home to...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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