Red currants

It is 8:45 a.m. on a Saturday in July. I descend the steps of the 504 streetcar at the intersection of King Street West and Jarvis. As I wait for the light to change to allow me to walk south towards Front Street I observe the knots of people already clogging the sidewalks in amongst the outside vendors at ...
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Lime tart with fresh raspberries

I know. I know! It’s yet another dessert post.

I’m just as surprised as you are, as I’ll gladly side with savoury over sweet every single time. But what can I say? There are worse things in which to revel than sweets, and revelling in them I have been indeed if my recent food ...
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Frozen strawberry-vanilla swirl

Hope you saved room for dessert.

It’s been a while since I’ve featured something sweet here in the food category, and considering that we are in the most difficult part of winter — snowbanks are dirty and grey; sidewalks are minefields laid with dense, glacial ice; temperatures hang immovably below zero — I thought it particularly ...
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