Hope you all enjoyed the Curtis Stone celebrity cookbook give-away. For those of you who did not win, not too worry I am continuing the give-away with 5 MORE COOKBOOKS! you can really get your teeth into.  For those of you who are ready to grill, you’re going to love my next celebrity cookbook selection [...]

Hi foodies! It’s Canadian Living’s web food editor Colleen filling in for Christine as she gallivants across the country, frolicking in merriment as she discovers food and drink to share with us all. Oh to be a food writer! But enough of my whining. I’m here to tell you that 50 of Toronto’s top chefs [...]

I am starting a new monthly feature here at the Foodie-file called “Foodie Finds Friday”. The regional and local way of eating has really taken off and people across our giant nation know their own best food finds but if you are outside the geographical area you are out of the loop. I want to [...]

Thank you to all who contributed with great ideas for eating locally in Canada. I loved the personal stories and learning about great new options like the aerogarden and cold pressed canola oil. I hope everyone is taking notes about great places to shop, products to eat and for those more ambitious types – where [...]

On Friday April 11th, Green Enterprise Toronto, Slow Food Toronto and Local Food Plus will host the first annual Brewers Plate Toronto at Berkeley Church – a gala dinner event that pairs locally made beers with gourmet dishes, all made from local ingredients. Brewers Plate intends to promote local independent brewers, chefs, food artisans and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]