I haven’t met anyone who isn’t just a little bit sceptical of the communal dining trend, except perhaps restaurateurs who have added a communal table in the hopes of using it for either large groups or stragglers. For most of us, our inclination when going out to eat is to dine and talk with the [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Innoculation – or, How Food Bloggers Can and Should Arm Themselves Against Viral Marketers
If you’ve never received one, then consider yourself lucky. If you’re a recipe blogger, you might never know the greasy, depressing feeling of opening up your email inbox to be assaulted with fake flattery and a patronizing cut and paste formula-based invitation. But eventually, because that’s their whole premise, the viral marketing companies will get [...]
Mango Season
In our supermarket society, we sort of take for granted that all produce will be accessible at all times. And while the idea of seasonality is becoming more prevalent for locally-grown foods, we tend to not think of things like oranges, pineapples or mangoes as having a season, when in fact, they do. For a [...]
Park It at the Market
We saw this shopping buggy locked up on Jarvis Street outside the St. Lawrence Farmers’ Market one Saturday morning a few weeks ago. Given how packed the market can get on a Saturday morning, and taking into account all of the obnoxious people with buggies and strollers who hog the aisles, I’d like to extend [...]
Happy McAnniversary to Me!
It’s my 20 year McAnniversary this month. April of 1989 was the last time I ate anything from McDonald’s. I don’t remember the exact date because it wasn’t really a marker at the time. My boyfriend and I had been to the Toronto Zoo where we visited the Americans pavilion. There were huge info walls [...]
