After a long shitty week of constant, bad news… health, financial, you name it; I’m stressed about it! – I’ve finally got light at the end of the tunnel. Slowly, things start to look up in life, no matter how terrible they might seem in the moment. I guess I’m a bit of a worry-wart…
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Here “He” is. Welcome Frank to the world. Frank marks Day #1 of the Pet in a Jar Project. Frank is a bread dough starter made with some key ingredients, two of which I had no idea could or should, be used in a starter (or leaven as this particular one is called). Most starters are made…
Read MoreI can’t take credit for the recipe that I’m about to give you for the bread pictured above, however I can refer you to Dan Lepard’s book; The Art of Handmade Bread, Contemporary European Recipes for the Homebaker. This is a fantastic find, at a staggering $20.00 CAD! (Go buy it, seriously.) Lepard has a skill for…
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Here in the busy city of Toronto, and specifically in the Hospitality world, we are awaiting the boom better known as; the Toronto International Film Festival. This ‘festival’ of sorts brings hundreds of thousands (nearly half a million to be exact) of industry professionals to our lovely city, just after Labour Day in mid-September. ‘TIFF’…
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