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Find holiday inspiration at the Gourmet Food & Wine Expo

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Holiday party season is right around the corner and your guests deserve better than a two-four of Molson Canadian and those greasy pig-in-a-blanket things. Let The Gourmet Food & Wine Expo – November 14 through 17 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre – serve up some inspiration to be bold at your next function.

Showcasing Canada’s best new restaurants at swanky Toronto gala

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Fried buttermilk chicken, caribou and boudin noir were but some of the offerings at last night’s soiree celebrating the country’s top new restaurants. After sundown, a well-heeled (and presumably well-traveled) crowd headed to the Storys building to celebrate Air Canada’s enRoute magazine’s top new restaurants.

Drink This: Geraldine’s Scorched Daisy

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Parkdale’s after dark scene has gotten far swisher in recent years, and Geraldine exemplifies this new direction. The elegant space is decorated just-so: vintage crockery is sat atop antique wood tables while jazz piano notes skip about overhead.

Chef Tip: a trick to cooking fish perfectly every time

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When preparing fish, using oil to fry it is the easiest way to keep the meat from sticking to the pan, as well as ensure a crispy outer skin. Unfortunately it is often difficult to achieve these results without using more oil than you would necessarily want, especially in an otherwise healthy dish.

University of Toronto duo develop first practical invisibility cloak technology

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The dream of invisibility has existed in popular culture from the H.G Wells novel published in 1897 to to Harry Potter and his invisibility cloak, and now, thanks to a whiz bang team of researchers at the University of Toronto, it is no longer the stuff of speculative fiction. The age of invisibility is upon us. Well, sort of.

Music: The Kennedy Suite 'folk opera' with Cowboy Junkies and a few close friends

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American president John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. It is a surprising thing to create a music album and produce a so-called “folk opera” based on the assassination in Toronto, 50 years later. Luckily, the story and the music that make up The Kennedy Suite are worthy of at least this effort and could lead to more.