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Former owner of the Good Egg cookbook shop Mika Baraket launched a publishing company this fall with a recipe book called Blood – one the other publishers wouldn’t touch – that sold out in its first run. Now she’s using the pandemic as a cover, to grow the business deliberately in her own sweet time.
Read MoreElizabeth Rodriguez left Cuba for a freer life in Toronto; she came to make music but stayed for Magdelys Savigne. The two met in a band here, fell in love, then formed their own group – the Latin jazz ensemble OKAN, whose second album, Espiral, was released during the pandemic. Now they’re waiting out the virus at home – cooking, teaching, preparing for virtual award shows and still making beautiful music together.
Read MoreToronto’s restaurant industry had problems well before the pandemic hit. But if there’s hope, says Len Senater, who runs the collective kitchen Depanneur, it’s in a new style of business that puts people ahead of profits.
Read More“The kind of leader a young Somali kid needs.” That’s how a friend describes Asha Ahmed, whose restaurant, Wiff – the heart of Weston’s main strip – is facing eviction.
Read MoreEven before restaurants across the city closed their doors, the food industry was a tough one for workers. That’s why Chuck Ortiz started a Wednesday run club for chefs and kitchen staff, to help them deal with stress.
Read MoreMoscow Apartment met in band camp at 13. Now 17, the duo has landed a recording contract and has a new record dropping in May. In the kitchen and onstage, their chemistry is clear.
Read MoreCatherine Tammaro, who grew up Irish-Italian, never understood what drew her to the ceremonies she observed when she was younger – crushing berries for face paint, lining her path in cedar boughs, drumming by the High Park burial mounds – until she discovered her mother was adopted and that another culture had been waiting for her to find it.
Read MoreApril Wozny was in her 20s when she launched the popular monthly queer party Business Women’s Special. But it wasn’t until she got sober that she learned she could really dance, and cook too.
Read MoreLaura Hänsch, the unofficial mayor of her building, is a mother, poet, survivor and cook– rolling pierogies by the hundreds for her neighbours, who are all her friends, and making sure the pantry is full in case anyone’s running low.
Read MoreEach summer weekend that allowed, my parents took my brother, sister & me to Kelso Lake.
Read MoreWhile baking a fruit tart her grandmother used to make, Muay Thai athlete Suzanne Carte unpacks the roots of her pugilism and explains how fighting can lead to something sweet .
Read MoreFilmmaker Charles Officer learned how to cook from his parents, and how to fight from his three older sisters. While soaking fish and frying johnnycakes, he opens up about using his might, and his work, to help one of those sisters, who’s battling for her life.
Read MoreJunction musician Greydyn Gatti is a maker of many things: zines (more than 50), record albums (his newest is his 60th) and no-frills spaghetti, which he learned to cook as a little kid to help care for his sick mom.
Read MoreBriony Smith, an online writer and editor who does not cook – ever – undertakes a 24-hour family chili, developed by her grandfather in a Thai POW camp. While she stirs, she explains what it’s like to be a flashpoint for internet trolls and all that eats them.
Read MoreWhen Lynette Gillis’s big sister Darlene died suddenly in an accident, she wrote an album to carry herself through the darkness.
Read MoreAs Ksenija Hotic expertly rolls the leaves around the filling – a mix of brown rice (she soaks it beforehand to speed up the cooking time), ground beef and lamb, smoked lamb bacon from her dad “and some parsley, garlic – pretty basic” – she recalls her mother’s recipe.
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