uLast week, I went to a meet-and-greet at local Toronto restaurant chain, Il Fornello. The place has long been known for its pastas and wood fire oven-baked pizzas but is now making a name for itself as a sincere supporter of local food. They serve Ontario tomatoes and arugula, local root vegetables and meats as well as [...]
Read full post...A note about urbavores from my medievalist aunt who knows her latin:
Lesley writes: “Great word! But get your derivations right! ‘urb’ as in urban, yes (urbs= city), but ‘vore’ as in ‘voro’, Latin for ’swallow whole’, ‘devour’…. (‘omni’ comes from ‘omnium’, meaning ‘everything’, so that’s why omnivore means someone who eats everything. )”
Also: I’m up in [...]
I just paid $4 for approximately 7 spears of asparagus. Ok, they are thick spears. And juicy looking, with pointy tips that haven’t yet started to wither or wilt. Nor are they woody like the ”freshly picked” stems from Blah-blahs. Apparently, they are planted from heritage seeds which make them so slow growing that they end up [...]
Read full post...This morning, I coined a new word: urbavore.
As I walked to the farmers’ market, I made a mental list of all the various places I go to buy the foods I feed my family. In addition to the seasonal produce I find at the market–this morning it was freshly dug potatoes and baby radishes–I buy my chicken from [...]