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Your Packed Social Calendar: Preserve Swap at The Handlebar (+Bonus Dance...
Poster by Mike Ellis (see more at mikellis.tumblr.com) This past Saturday night, I visited The Handlebar in Kensington Market for the first time to hear my friend Edmund Stay rock-opera-out as he...
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Vanilla Pudding with Thyme Syrup Recipes
I don’t want to come out of the gate making excuses, but what a week. I’m not complaining – it’s been ‘the good kind of busy’ with visits from out-of-town friends, menu planning meetings, cat...
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Crowdfunding Causes: Help Cultivate Toronto Set Up Gardens in Regent Park
Is it just me or do you also find yourself looking at a lot more crowdfunding projects than you used to? I don’t have the hard numbers to back it up, but I know that online fundraising has become...
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What’s In Season: December
During this month, I, and everyone around me, discover that I am the World’s Biggest Baby because of my constant, never-ending mantra of, “I’m so cooooold.” You’d think that being Canadian and having...
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Lentil & Brown Rice Vegan ‘Meat’-ball Recipe
It’s holiday party time, a.k.a. potluck season, at least when you work in food-focused groups as I do. This week, I had a mighty successful cookie swap at my culinary centre job, and last night I was...
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Gingerbread Granola
I don’t know about you, but I find myself still craving gingerbread-flavoured things long after Christmas has finished. While I’m an odd person in that I’ll gladly listen to Christmas carols in June,...
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Community Building (Quite Literally): Meet the Faces Behind OpenStreetMap at...
DREAM COME TRUE: I am starting 2013 at a new job where I get to reignite my geo-nerdery by indulging in mapmaking. I am in the midst of developing a series of interactive maps for various projects,...
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Recipes & comics, with a side of grilled cheese.
I recently stumbled upon this list on Saveur’s website of ‘Recipe Comix,’ which is exactly what it sounds like. Saveur contacted several comic artists, asking each artist to draw a recipe for them....
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Swap #2: Starting 2013 off with another stellar swap!
Hello all! Our first swap of 2013 happened on Monday, January 28th in the evening, and what a great swap it was! There are fewer things more satisfying in life than opening up a new year with a great...
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On Sharing Recipes
While collecting recipes from all the participants of our latest swap, I started thinking about the idea of recipe discovery, collection, and sharing. What makes us go, “Ooh, I’d like to make that!”...
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Swap Recipe: Jenn’s Zucchini Summer Salad with Lemon, Mint and Walnuts
Raw food veganism, you got me this time. As many of you know, July in Toronto was frequently the equivalent of living in a steam oven. Attempting to be an optimistic opportunist, I thought about how...
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