Terroir has become an important idea that is influencing food trends here and Canada and across the globe. The idea is that what we eat and drink is affected by the environment where it is produced. With more consumer demand for locally produced foods and drinks and the resurgence of artisan and small-scale local producers, [...]

Friday night was the Women and Wine party at the Fifth in Toronto. Our wine writer Anne Martin participated on the panel of foodie and wine-os competing in a culinary and wine know-it-all contest. Local food celebrities Lucy Waverman, Trish Magwood and Donna Doher among others also participated. Here are shots from a successful night [...]

Wow! How fun reading your responses – thanks for everyone who wrote in and participated, especially those who aren’t even able to pick up tickets in TO! Ok – we had way too many responses to actually try out the hangover cures (and if we had we would probably need to be hospitalized for alcohol [...]

Melissa Craig of Bearfoot Bistro in Whistler was crowned top chef over seven competitors from across Canada. The lead up to the final involves iron chef type competitions in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, Montreal and Halifax. The winners from every city come together in Toronto for three days of competition and foodie events. I attended [...]

I bear good tidings for foodies on a mediocre Monday. The Women and Wine event at The Fifth Social Club in Toronto Ontario is a fundraising event benefiting Toronto Western Hospital for lupus research and is taking place on February 20th. It is a swanky night of great wine, great food and food and wine [...]

Here are some pictures from the gala event in Niagara Friday night; the kick off for the Niagara Ice Wine Festival. We had some good wine and fantastic food. We were greeted with an ice wine martini that packed a real punch. The Niagara wineries were out en masse with more than just ice wine [...]

The “Menu For Hope” on-line raffle was conceived by the international food blogger, Pim Techamuanvivit, who uses her popular site “Chez Pim” as the launching pad for an annual fundraising campaign in aid of humanitarian causes. Last year, with the participation of the global food blogging community, “Menu for Hope” was a huge success, more [...]

From February 21 to March 2 if you are in Quebec hit the Montreal High Light Festival. A week of celebrating the best of Montreal with a focus on the outstanding food that is synonyms with Quebec culture. Every year a sister city is chosen to be highlighted at the festival and this year it [...]

What features obscene amounts of chocolate and couture fashion? The third annual Cadbury Chocolate Couture Collection Fashion Show at the Carlu! Chocolate you say? Couture you say? Fashion you say? How does this all come together? Well – you take a bunch of top designers (the likes of Franco Mirabelli), the chocolatier Jen Stone, a [...]